I only use Frigate for notifications so I don’t have a need to use the record feature. That causes MQTT to not create any enties under frigate/reviews which means no notifications.
Is there a way to use this blueprint without the record feature being enabled?
No, you need to modify the part that actually sends the notification, both the initial and the loop. If you are only doing the custom action you could in theory delete the notification elements entitely
You can roll back to versions that used the events topic instead.
Eventually events topic will work with the new versions of the blueprint, still hoping someone will find the time to put this together in a pull request. It’s not difficult
The best solution (and recommended method now that we use the reviews mqtt topic) is to set the zone as a required zone for alerts in your frigate config directly. Then you don’t need to do anything with zones in the blueprint.
Thanks @SgtBatten. As a follow up then - is there something else I can work on to ensure frigate reports this zone entered to mqtt? I guess I’m wondering how others are using the feature included in the blueprint if this is a common issue, but for others this just works. Simplify zones? Make them larger?
I’m fine requiring zones in the frigate configuration, but unless there’s something I’m missing (which could very much be the case) I lose the ability to fine tune whether I get alerts for only certain zones at certain times.
These were all built for the events topic. Once reviews came out, some things are less relevant in the blueprint config.
If someone has time to contribute an update to he blueprint we can have both reviews and events topics compatible and you would be able to use all the filters more effectively within the blueprint again.
Until then, you can roll back to 0.12 I think and use events.
Ah I see, thanks for the context.
Hi team, I just installed the latest beta but after installation I get URLSessionTask error - URL not supported.
I use my local IP - as always: http://x.x.x.x:8123
Any tips from you? 
Forget it, I just recreated it and it works… no idea why 
Hi,
I updated script and I have a little problem with Telegram notification. Before update I always have 4 options in Telegram message - View Clip, Snapshot and Silent.
Now I configure from the begening and I have 4 options in 5-10% of all messages (sometimes there are but often I receive only snapshot). How can I turn it on always?
Can I use the topic “frigate/events” instead of “frigate/reviews”? The reason I ask is I want to avoid getting notification spam through the reviews topic. I’d prefer if I get notifications for confirmed alerts only i.e. those for which frigate saves a screenshot and clip. In the blueprint UI I switched MQTT Topic (Advanced) to frigate/events and now I am getting no notifications
Events will do the opposite of what you want. Reviews are far fewer and more controlled.
In any case, no, you would need roll back to 0.12ish to use events. It wouldn’t be hard to reintroduce events and make both work but someone else needs to step up and take over.
That clarifies a lot for me thanks. My understanding was that the events were the confirmed alerts after having been through the reviews process. Anyway, I think I just need to remove car detection from one of my cameras. I just want to avoid getting spam notifications with no snapshot or clip.
This is exactly what the reviews topic is. It is a 1:1 of what gets shown as an alert or detection in the Frigate UI
Thanks, great to get this clarification. However I cannot understand why I am getting notification spam. I am regularly getting notifications in HA with no clips and when I tap the gif it takes me to a clip from a couple of hours ago. This is what caused me to question the reviews vs. events topic. Any ideas what might be causing this? Everything looks perfect on the Frigate server side, there are no spam clips or no clips missed
You mentioned cars. So I suspect you don’t handle stationary vehicles well enough in your frigate config and you are being notified about the same car which is an ongoing event in frigate?