I have created a basic automation from the blueprint. Like others, I can get it to work. I have the latest of Frigate ( HACS, Integration, supervisor, ). Frigate sends my notifications to my phone via another automation I have created, but I can’t get this one to work. What am I missing here ?
I used the basics of what the blueprint does to come up with something unique. I feel it works good for my use case as the App handles actionable notifications strangely in my opinion.
How difficult would it be to add an optional field for the URL of the snapshot? For instance, my Frigate instance is only used for AI detection with Coral and I use Blue Iris for all recording. It would be nice for this to grab an image directly from the camera which is available at URL. This way I don’t get the low res detection image from Frigate in the notification. Any ideas?
the thumbnail is a very low res image to begin with. You can change it to snapshot.jpg?bbox=1 to get a full frame snapshot with bounding box.
docs.frigate.video has the API documentation.
That’s a good idea, I often forget to take my phone off silent… what I would probably do is make a second set of automatons and add a time condition to each set so only one goes off at a time and make one use critical notifications. I found it easier to just duplicate one for each camera so I didn’t muck up the blueprint too much. I already modified it to use a previously setup counter system so I temporarily stop getting them after 3 notifications in 30 seconds (my kids playing in the yard was setting them off too much when they are outside)… but anyway thanks for the idea!
I’m getting the detection frame rather than full frame as a snapshot. Is that normal? I’m new to frigate.
Also can a single blueprint automation be used for multiple cameras? To avoid having multiple automations.
I also tried adding bbox=1 to the uri in the blueprint and I’m still getting detection frame low resolution images.
- action: URI
title: View Snapshot
uri: '{{base_url}}/api/frigate/notifications/{{id}}/snapshot.jpg?bbox=1'
I noticed frigate takes higher quality snapshots with the bounding box. I can see them in the events
“best image” but how can I use those snapshots in the notification blueprint automation? I’d also add I’m not using 2 streams (main and sub) I’m using blue iris and I have frigate pulling the mainstream at 1280x720. I also can’t download those snapshots and I don’t know where they are saved as I don’t see them in the media folder.
Has anyone had an issue where a video has finished playing and you’re stuck into the video clip? Only a restart of home assistant seems to resolve it for me…
@hunterjm I have the same question as @Bartem. Is there any way to use the full frame instead of just the detection frame? I would like to have full context in the notification, not just a cropped image of exactly what was detected.
Edit: Seems like it just needs to use a snapshot instead of thumbnail.
Yes, have the same issue intermittently. If you leave if long enough it fixes itself and goes back into the app.
My current solution is to change the setting in the mobile app to open links in the browser, rather than in the HA App, then the video plays in the browser and you don’t get stuck in the app.
I would like to have notification when my camera detects motions for at least 5 seconds. My cam is at front door and I got many unwanted notifications when people just walk by. What should I add to the blueprint?
Thanks in advance.
Hi, I use ha in docker + reverse proxy. I can’t get the pictures to show no matter what regardless if I use my reverse proxy address or nabu.casa address.
For example the address for snapshot that comes out of this blueprint’s template looks like this:
