Fixing a Camera Crash Cascade: How an LLM Health Check Found a Hidden Frigate Bug
A daily LLM-powered health check flagged that 8 out of 10 cameras had crash counts in the hundreds. The root cause turned out to be two baby monitor cameras, a go2rtc reconnect window, and a vaapi cascade failure — none of which were directly obvious. Here’s how we found it and fixed it.
How the Issue Was Found # I’ve been building a daily home health agent — a scheduled script that queries all home services (Frigate, Home Assistant, Paperless, the arr stack) and passes the data to a local LLM for analysis. The idea: instead of manually checking dashboards, get a morning summary that flags anything unusual.