Frigate sensitivity

Configuration
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Hello. I’ve recently been using Frigate to detect movement on the front door with my DoorBird bell. Unfortunately, I’m having trouble configuring the intelligence so I’m not overwhelmed with alarms. 60-80 alarms a day are not uncommon. And the problem with that: they are triggered by two chimneys, a tree, etc. So: nothing adequate. However, I cannot mask these areas as my door is about 2 meters from the floor and I mask the person coming in front of the camera as soon as they come up the stairs. Here are a few photos. Masked for privacy. Sorry! I hope you can still read something from it.

My configuration:

mqtt:
  host: 192.168.1.16
  user: #username
  password: #password

timestamp_style:
  position: "tl"
  format: "%d/%m/%Y %H:%M:%S"
  color:
    red: 255
    green: 255
    blue: 255
  thickness: 2
  effect: "solid"

cameras:
  Kamera_Haustuer_Frigate:
    ffmpeg:
      inputs:
        - path: rtsp://#username:#password@#IP/mpeg/media.amp
          roles:
            - record
            - detect
            - clips
            - rtmp

    objects:
      track:
        - person
        - car
        - cat

      filters:
        person:
          # Optional: minimum width*height of the bounding box for the detected object. Vorher: 5000. Default 0
          min_area: 0
          # Optional: maximum width*height of the bounding box for the detected object (default: 24000000)
          max_area: 100000
          # Optional: minimum score for the object to initiate tracking (default: shown below)
          min_score: 0.2
          # Optional: minimum decimal percentage for tracked object's computed score to be considered a true positive (default: shown below)
          threshold: 0.5

    snapshots: # <----- Enable snapshots
      enabled: True
      timestamp: True
      retain:
        default: 1
        objects:
          person: 2

    record: # <----- Enable recording
      enabled: True
      events:
        retain:
          default: 1
      expire_interval: 1440

    rtmp:
      enabled: True # <-- RTMP should be disabled if your stream is not H264

    detect:
      width: 1280
      height: 720

    motion:
      threshold: 300

detectors:
  cpu1:
    type: cpu
3

Mask should still work.

I believe the masks only exclude an object if the bottom centre of the bounding box is within the mask area. So as long as people would be partly visible below that chimney area I think you will find it works.

4

OK, I’ll try that! I’ll get back. Thanks!

Edit: 44 events since this Thread! I have now defined a mask and will test it.

5

Works very well! Thank you! :slight_smile: I wouldn’t have looked at this mask as I thought it was just blocking out an area like my security camera.

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