Not sure what you mean protection mode? Are you talking about privileged mode?
Not by default, try removing -an from your output args. If that doesnāt work, replace -an with -codec:a aac
The latter worked in my case.
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Thank you ā-codec:a aacā worked a treat
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Hi there,
Other people seem to have got this to work on older CPUs: https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate-hass-addons/pull/12
So it should be possible to get Frigate working without swapping hardware.
Where do you put the output_args?
All I get is:
* Starting nginx nginx
...done.
Error parsing config: expected a dictionary for dictionary value @ data['ffmpeg']['output_args']
You can place under an individual camera, but I wanted all cameras, so put it here:
ffmpeg:
hwaccel_args:
- -hwaccel
- vaapi
- -hwaccel_device
- /dev/dri/renderD128
output_args:
clips: -f segment -segment_time 10 -segment_format mp4 -reset_timestamps 1 -strftime 1 -c copy -codec:a aac
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So simpleā¦ Thanks!
You could possibly achieve that with best_image_timeout. So something like:
Nextone:
ffmpeg:
inputs:
- path: rtsp://xxx:[email protected]:2554/axis-media/media.amp
roles:
- detect
width: 1920
height: 1080
fps: 5
best_image_timeout: 5
The default value is 60.
The easiest way to keep all images is to assign a clips role to the camera, unless your use case prevents that.
Did you solve this?
Did you got it working?
Nope, unfortunately not. 
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Hi
Firstly thank you! Frigate is awesome and i canāt wait to see what it becomes with Further development. Iām looking at Migrating away from BlueIris because of the great homeassistant integration.
Iām just struggling with one issue.
I want to use my sub-stream for 24/7 recording and my Main stream for recording clips which works great. However when i click on the feed in HomeAssistant Iād also like to see the main stream and not the low res sub-stream. Is there a way to do this?
My config looks like this
cameras:
frontyard:
ffmpeg:
inputs:
- path: rtsp://admin:@[email protected]:554//h264Preview_01_sub
roles:
- detect
- record
- path: rtsp://admin:@[email protected]:554//h265Preview_01_main
roles:
- clips
- rtmp
Thanks again!
Good day gents,
anyone can suggest recommended ffmpeg settings to improve the latency with homeassistant?
basically I get a presence notification/picture about 10 seconds before I can see the object in the homeassistant camera view.
Thank you
Hi all,
I have a question about Frigate on a Odroid N2+ with a Coral USB TPU
My CPU load is relative high :
I can even reach 90 ~ 95%
My suspicion is that the ordoid N2+ does not do ffmpeg on hardware causing this? Is that true and can I do something about this?
One other thing, object recognition is awesome! But only with daylight, when itās getting dark it is not working anymore, 2 camera are Ubiquiti G3 and G3 flex, I also have a EZViz C3W, but that doesnāt work eitherā¦ it works better with Unifi Protect, but I want HA to detect 
Hi all, fairly new frigate user here! First of all thanks for the awesome project! Unfortunately I have some troubles setting it up properly. Setup is working fine, I have / had it running as a hassio addon and in a separate docker container (Raspberry Pi and Macbook), but I canāt seem to get a stable stream to detect objects / view my camera images. I read a lot of posts and guides but none seem to answer my specific question.
- Camera: Reolink E1 Pro (it has an rtsp stream, but apparently no rtmp, as far as I can tell).
- Hardware: Raspberry Pi 3b - Docker Version or Macbook Pro (late 2013). Both not the most powerful HW
First problem: I cannot get an stable substream to detect object. It is either all green screen (while using some input_arguments) or it is flickering / has artefacts. Stream size is 640x360px, 7fps, 192kbit/s
Seconds Problem: Using the main stream to detect images, I think both of my hardware options are not powerful enough. Frigate only works with 0,2 to 1,3 fps (displayed in frontend).
What are my options here? Is this only a hardware problem and more powerful hardware, e.g. Raspberry Pi 4 and Coral TPU will solve this? Or is this related to the Camera Hardware (esp. the Substream Problem), or do I need to tune the ffmpeg stream with input_arguments?
Hi,
so lowering the timeout for best_image produces more imagesā¦ Will try that tomorrow and report back.
Regarding your suggestion about the āclipsā: I have multiple cameras, some show areas with heavy pedestrian trafic. If I am forced to watch all clips (not really happy with the post_capture und pre_capture), the evaluation of all cameras takes up way more time! Checking all pictures is way faster. But thanks for the tip!
As i said, be back tomorrow with more about best_image_timeoutā¦
Thank you.
Cheers
Chris
Interesting, that makes sense. Iām not 100% certain that reducing the best_image timeout will work. I just checked the documentation and it says the following:
# Optional: timeout for highest scoring image before allowing it
# to be replaced by a newer image. (default: shown below)
best_image_timeout: 60
Another thing to play with could be max_disappeared in the detector settings:
# Optional: Number of frames without a detection before frigate considers an object to be gone. (default: 5x the frame rate)
max_disappeared: 25
Lowering it drastically would perhaps create a lot of unique events and snapshots per target as Frigate bounces above and below the detection threshold - which itself could be adjusted to achieve the desired effect.
Iāve just been playing with Node-RED as another possible solution, and it did indeed save several snapshots when I walked around in front of the camera. Not sure how elegant this solution is as Iāve never really used Node-RED, but Iād expect it to save loads of snapshots in a high traffic area.
thank you very much for your response.
Im trying the the FFMPEG cameras with the Live555 RTSP proxy and testing
for webrtx i just cant get the card to work. keeps saying āCustom element doesnāt exist: webrtc-cameraā
Hi,
Iām running frigate on a dedicate docker container,
Iām wondering if it could be possible to display MQTT frigate/stats as entities card
anyone already explored it?
Regards
Dario
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