Frigate - Can't get rid of 7GB of storage and snapshots

Configuration
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I installed on HAOS. Installed the Frigate integration and addon, also MMQT.

I have one reolink camera set up. When I click Frigate on the side tab and then Storage, it tells me I’m quickly running out of space, 5.8 out of 29 GB used. Picture attached.

But there is no way to manage it. Looked under Meida → Local Media → Frigate, and no files were there. I used the terminal tab, and found the config → Custom_components → Frigate folder, but they are not there.

The cleanup routine is not pruning. I’ve attached a picture of the storage screen, also below is my frigate.yaml.

Also, on that same tab, nothing ever appears under Events.


mqtt:
  host: 192.168.1.103
  client_id: frigate
  user: harry1
  password: xxxxx
cameras:
  office:
    enabled: true
    ffmpeg:
#      hwaccel_args:
#        - -hwaccel
#        - vaapi
#        - -hwaccel_device
#        - /dev/dri/renderD128
#        - -hwaccel_output_format
#        - yuv420p
      input_args:
        - -avoid_negative_ts
        - make_zero
        - -fflags
        - +genpts+discardcorrupt
        - -flags
        - low_delay
        - -strict
        - experimental
        - -analyzeduration
        - 1000M
        - -probesize
        - 1000M
        - -rw_timeout
        - "5000000"
      inputs:
          - path: http://192.168.1.105/flv?port=1935&app=bcs&stream=channel0_main.bcs&user=admin&password=eibboR
            roles:
              - record
              - rtmp
          - path: http://192.168.1.105/flv?port=1935&app=bcs&stream=channel0_ext.bcs&user=admin&password=eibboR
            roles:
              - detect
detect:
  width: 640
  height: 480
  fps: 5
birdseye:
  enabled: false
record:
  enabled: true
  retain:
    days: 1
  events:
    retain:
      default: 2
      mode: all
      objects:
        person: 2
snapshots:
  enabled: true
  timestamp: true
  retain:
    default: 5
    objects:
      person: 5

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2

this is the “used” storage on your current drive, not just the storage used by frigate. Also, the files are stored in /media/frigate

3

Hi there,

I’m having a similar issue: I had to clean-up my Frigate installation completely. I removed the add-on and reinstall it.

Now everything works fine with still, the used storage value is completely off (by 26GB here):

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I’m storing the media files on my NAS and I can see 51MB right now:

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Any clues of what is cooking here?

Thanks,

G.

4

Hi there,

I found the root cause of the problem: Frigate addon is using the system used space and not the actual space taken by recordings/snapshots.

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End of the story then :wink: We were just expecting something else.

Thanks,

G.