Is there a "Purge" function in Frigate that will delete the stored videos | Home Assistant | Page 1

lime ore Sep 29, 2024, 4:38 PM

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My frigate suddenly showed black camera feeds and the logs were showing "Unable to keep up with recording segments in cache for camera". I manually deleted the recordings from my storage and it fixed the error and black feeds. Is there a way to get frigate to automatically delete the videos when the storage capacity reaches a certain percentage?

abstract sun Sep 29, 2024, 5:07 PM

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Frigate already deletes storage if it gets too full https://docs.frigate.video/configuration/record#will-frigate-delete-old-recordings-if-my-storage-runs-out

Recording | Frigate

Recordings can be enabled and are stored at /media/frigate/recordings. The folder structure for the recordings is YYYY-MM-DD/HH//MM.SS.mp4 in UTC time. These recordings are written directly from your camera stream without re-encoding. Each camera supports a configurable retention policy in the config. Frigate chooses the largest matching retenti...

lime ore Sep 29, 2024, 5:17 PM

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abstract sun Frigate already deletes storage if it gets too full https://docs.frigate.video/c...

somehow mine didnt delete the old recordings, I had to delete them manually before frigate worked properly again

abstract sun Sep 29, 2024, 5:53 PM

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We'd need to see logs, it's possible something else was going on

lime ore Sep 29, 2024, 7:18 PM

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how do I get the logs from before I cleared the storage space and restarted Frigate?

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This is my current frigate system logs

📎 message.txt

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