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I’ve been trying to configure frigate for a few days now and I’ve got it all working via restreaming through go2rtc because the WiFi cameras I have only allow a limited amount of connections and I can view my cameras just fine in the portal. But I gave up trying to add them to home assistant because no matter what I did, I would only get a still image.

My setup seems the same as yours. (Frigate in docker via proxmox LXC) But I don’t have any external devices, just using the cpu of my server.

Would it be possible to see your config file for this? I’m having a hard time understanding how you removed go2rtc. Also, are you using substreams at all?

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walden@wetshav.ing ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

I don’t have an external GPU either, just the onboard Intel graphics is what I use now. Also worth mentioning to use integrated graphics your Docker Compose needs:

devices:
      - /dev/dri/renderD128:/dev/dri/renderD128

I’m not using substreams. I have 2 cameras and the motion detection doesn’t stress the CPU too much. If I add more cameras I’d consider using substreams for motion detection to reduce the load.

Your still frames in Home Assistant are the exact problem I was having. If your cameras really do need go2rtc to reduce connections (my wifi camera doesn’t seem to care), you might try changing your Docker container to network_mode: host and see if that fixes it.

Here’s my config. Most of the notations were put there by Frigate and I’ve de-identified everything. Notice at the bottom go2rtc is all commented out, so if I want to add it back in I can just remove the #s. Hope it helps.

config.yaml

mqtt:
  enabled: true
  host: <ip of Home Assistant>
  port: 1883
  topic_prefix: frigate
  client_id: frigate
  user: mqtt username
  password: mqtt password
  stats_interval: 60
  qos: 0

cameras:     # No cameras defined, UI wizard should be used
  baby_cam:
    enabled: true
    friendly_name: Baby Cam
    ffmpeg:
      inputs:
        - path: 
            rtsp://user:pw@<ip-addr>:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=0&unicast=true&proto=Onvif
          roles:
            - detect
            - record
      hwaccel_args: preset-vaapi
    detect:
      enabled: true # <---- disable detection until you have a working camera feed
      width: 1920 # <---- update for your camera's resolution
      height: 1080 # <---- update for your camera's resolution
    record:
      enabled: true
      continuous:
        days: 150
      sync_recordings: true
      alerts:
        retain:
          days: 150
          mode: all
      detections:
        retain:
          days: 150
          mode: all
    snapshots:
      enabled: true
    motion:
      mask: 0.691,0.015,0.693,0.089,0.965,0.093,0.962,0.019
      threshold: 14
      contour_area: 20
      improve_contrast: true
    objects:
      track:
        - person
        - cat
        - dog
        - toothbrush
        - train

  front_cam:
    enabled: true
    friendly_name: Front Cam
    ffmpeg:
      inputs:
        - path: 
            rtsp://user:pw@<ip-addr>:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=0&unicast=true&proto=Onvif
          roles:
            - detect
            - record
      hwaccel_args: preset-vaapi
    detect:
      enabled: true # <---- disable detection until you have a working camera feed
      width: 2688 # <---- update for your camera's resolution
      height: 1512 # <---- update for your camera's resolution
    record:
      enabled: true
      continuous:
        days: 150
      sync_recordings: true
      alerts:
        retain:
          days: 150
          mode: all
      detections:
        retain:
          days: 150
          mode: all
    snapshots:
      enabled: true
    motion:
      mask:
        - 0.765,0.003,0.765,0.047,0.996,0.048,0.992,0.002
        - 0.627,0.998,0.619,0.853,0.649,0.763,0.713,0.69,0.767,0.676,0.819,0.707,0.839,0.766,0.869,0.825,0.889,0.87,0.89,0.956,0.882,1
        - 0.29,0,0.305,0.252,0.786,0.379,1,0.496,0.962,0.237,0.925,0.114,0.879,0
        - 0,0,0,0.33,0.295,0.259,0.289,0
      threshold: 30
      contour_area: 10
      improve_contrast: true
    objects:
      track:
        - person
        - cat
        - dog
        - car
        - bicycle
        - motorcycle
        - airplane
        - boat
        - bird
        - horse
        - sheep
        - cow
        - elephant
        - bear
        - zebra
        - giraffe
        - skis
        - sports ball
        - kite
        - baseball bat
        - skateboard
        - surfboard
        - tennis racket
      filters:
        car:
          mask:
            - 0.308,0.254,0.516,0.363,0.69,0.445,0.769,0.522,0.903,0.614,1,0.507,1,0,0.294,0.003
            - 0,0.381,0.29,0.377,0.284,0,0,0
    zones:
      Main_Zone:
        coordinates: 0,0,0,1,1,1,1,0
        loitering_time: 0

detectors: # <---- add detectors
  ov:
    type: openvino
    device: GPU

model:
  model_type: yolo-generic
  width: 320 # <--- should match the imgsize set during model export
  height: 320 # <--- should match the imgsize set during model export
  input_tensor: nchw
  input_dtype: float
  path: /config/model_cache/yolov9-t-320.onnx
  labelmap_path: /labelmap/coco-80.txt

version: 0.17-0


#go2rtc:
#  streams:
#    front_cam:
#      - ffmpeg:rtsp://user:pw@<ip-addr>:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=0&unicast=true&proto=Onvif
#    baby_cam:
#      - ffmpeg:rtsp://user:pw@<ip-addr>:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=0&unicast=true&proto=Onvif

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Kupi@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I followed your steps for removing go2rtc and It fixed my issues in home assistant. I was a little worried about the results because I’m running 4 WiFi cameras and 1 dual camera (tapo c240d) and thought it might be too much for my setup, but everything works perfectly fine. If anything, it works better now because I can have my cameras in home assistant using the advance camera card. It also seemed to fix my issue with not being able to view clips from the C240d. Not sure how or why, but the clip review just works now.

I haven’t tried switching my detection model yet, but that’s my next goal. Thank you for helping me with this.

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- walden@wetshav.ing ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Sweet!
  
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