Pretty Fly for a Spy Pi (Exaviz Cruiser)

Duration: 13:01

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