Pretty Fly for a Spy Pi

I more than doubled the performance of my NVR with a new CM5 board. And it has PoE+ built in!

Some of the resources I referenced in this video (some links are affiliate links):

- Exaviz Cruiser: https://exa-pedia.com/docs/cruiser/
- Frigate: https://frigate.video
- Seagate IronWolf NAS 4TB HDD: https://amzn.to/46vIPyx
- Hard Drive sleds (Dell R720-compatible): https://www.ebay.com/itm/404293056771
- DeskPi 2U mini rack mount: https://deskpi.com/products/deskpi-2u-mini-rack-mount-case-pre-order-for-the-exaviz-cruiser-carrier-board
- My 1U Interceptor NVR build from 2024: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wkVGcdI2vk
- Blog post configuring Hailo and Frigate on Pi CM5: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/frigate-with-hailo-for-object-detection-on-a-raspberry-pi/

Exaviz sent me a prototype version of the Cruiser for testing, and DeskPi sent an early prototype of their mini rack case for the Cruiser. Neither company paid for this video or had any input in its production, but I still mark my videos as 'sponsored' if any equipment was provided by vendors in the making of the video. See my sponsorship policies here: https://github.com/geerlingguy/youtube#sponsorships

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Contents:

00:00 - Upgrading from the Interceptor
00:38 - Exaviz Cruiser CM5 board
01:57 - Adding another camera
02:46 - Google abandoned the Coral TPU
04:27 - Cruiser's USB-heavy architecture
06:08 - Building the mini-rack server
07:43 - Tada! And some hot-swap drive sleds
09:02 - Setting up RAID, Hailo, and Frigate
10:53 - Power consumption, PoE, and a 4K camera
12:17 - Future Home Assistant plans