Frigate and save battery

Configuration
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Hi,
I just succeed to install Frigate. And I’m still in configuration mode (for objects detection, notification, …).
But I use an outdoor camera on battery with solar panel.
So I wish to save battery consumption. Is it possible to change some options to decrease battery consumption ?

Here my frigate configuration :

## Connection à MQTT ##
mqtt:
  enabled: False

#cameras:
#  dummy_camera: # <--- this will be changed to your actual camera later
#    enabled: False
#    ffmpeg:
#      inputs:
#        - path: rtsp://127.0.0.1:554/rtsp
#          roles:
#            - detect
            
            
            
# /config/frigate.yaml

## Choix des caméras ##
go2rtc:
  streams:
    my_camera:
      - echo:bash /config/custom_components/expose_camera_stream_source/get_stream.sh camera.r4252_smart_outdoor_camera

## Liste des caméras avec leurs adresses de connection ##
cameras:
  my_camera:
    ffmpeg:
      inputs:
        - path: rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/my_camera?video
          input_args: preset-rtsp-restream-low-latency
          roles:
            - detect
#    motion: ## Création des zones à ignorer ##
#      mask:
#        - 0,461,3,0,1919,0,1919,843,1699,492,1344,458,1346,336,973,317,869,375,866,432
## Choix des options de détection et d'enregistrement ##
record:
  enabled: True
  retain:
    days: 7
    mode: motion
  events:
    retain:
      default: 30
#      mode: motion ## Conserve les vidéos avec mouvements seulement ##
      mode: active_objects ## Conserve les vidéos avec détection d'objets ##
      objects:
        dog: 2 ## Durée de conservation par objets ##
        cat : 2
        person: 7

detect:
  stationary:
    # Optional: Frequency for confirming stationary objects (default: same as threshold)
    # When set to 1, object detection will run to confirm the object still exists on every frame.
    # If set to 10, object detection will run to confirm the object still exists on every 10th frame.
    interval: 50
    # Optional: Number of frames without a position change for an object to be considered stationary (default: 10x the frame rate or 10s)
    threshold: 50
    # Optional: Define a maximum number of frames for tracking a stationary object (default: not set, track forever)
    # This can help with false positives for objects that should only be stationary for a limited amount of time.
    # It can also be used to disable stationary object tracking. For example, you may want to set a value for person, but leave
    # car at the default.
    # WARNING: Setting these values overrides default behavior and disables stationary object tracking.
    #          There are very few situations where you would want it disabled. It is NOT recommended to
    #          copy these values from the example config into your config unless you know they are needed.
   

snapshots:
  enabled: True
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AFAIK, not really? Frigate’s whole thing is being able to scan a substream constantly and look for objects. I don’t think there is any way to do that without the substream constantly being processed, otherwise you’re going to possibly miss events.

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So need to buy some outside charger for my camera. The solar panel isn’t powerfull enough to charge it with live

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