help setting up frigate to constantly record and also getting smooth playback of streams in HA | Home Assistant | Page 1

night zinc Jul 29, 2025, 7:24 AM

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i don't need any detection or anything like that for now. i just need streaming and recording. and also that the playback works smoothly in ha - which it doesn't, as it's lagging and not very smooth.

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the default cameras that are added by the frigate integration has maybe a frame rate at 1. when clicking the camera it updates maybe once or twice per second

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when viewing directly in frigate the frame rate is better, even though it's not perfect.

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viewing in go2rtc is perfect

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on iphone it's even worse

iron shoal Jul 29, 2025, 2:01 PM

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that is the normal behavior when go2rtc is not setup correctly, so a snapshot that updates once per second is shown

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how are you displaying the streams in Home Assistant? what card?

night zinc Jul 29, 2025, 4:55 PM

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i've tried both the frigate card and the advanced camera card

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i'm running frigate lxc container and that has its own go2rtc. and i'm using that

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what other stuff do i need to do to configure go2rtc correctly?

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that is. the default dashboard is automatically populated with some camera entities. so i added the advanced camera card and that works better, but only for android and pc users. for iphone it's still terrible

iron shoal Jul 29, 2025, 6:04 PM

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You'll want to make sure and use the go2rtc provider in the advance camera card

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Make sure the go2rtc stream names match the camera names

night zinc Jul 29, 2025, 8:07 PM

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Yeah, i'm using the go2rtc provider

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But it's still very bad on iphone

iron shoal Jul 29, 2025, 9:33 PM

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Is it the same when using frigate directly on iPhone? That's what I use for frigate (PWA) on iPhone and it works without any issues

night zinc Jul 30, 2025, 8:00 AM

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another question. looking at frigate system metrics i see under storage that there seems to be a storage limit of 200 GB? what's what all about? and how can i changed that?

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78.68 GiB / 200.89 GiB 39%

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but there's still 80 TB available

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and i want to store everything

iron shoal Jul 30, 2025, 12:32 PM

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200GB is the size that Frigate sees on the drive configured for recording

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so either the recording directory is not mounted on the correct storage, or there is some virtual filesystem with a storage limit on it (this is common in Proxmox for example)

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Frigate itself imposes no such limit

night zinc Jul 30, 2025, 12:50 PM

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i have bind mounted a volume, yes

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ok, so frigate won't actually start deleting recordings?

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because that would make me a sad panda 🙂

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Filesystem                        Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/pve-vm--104--disk--0   20G   16G  3.2G  83% /
192.168.227.13:/tank/nvr/frigate   70T  1.2T   68T   2% /media/frigate

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i'm not sure where it gets 200GB from, though?

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oh, it's actually increased to 230-ish

iron shoal Jul 30, 2025, 2:11 PM

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oh

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that is just telling you the total of how much storage has been used

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recordings are using 320GB out of the available 80TB

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you are also on an older version of Frigate, 0.15 has a re-organized storage graph

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night zinc Jul 30, 2025, 2:50 PM

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i'm running frigate in an lxc container on proxmox

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so i'm using the version that's bundled there

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is it possible to train my own AI models? i'm seeing some information about that, but i'm not getting a conclusive answer on the matter

iron shoal Jul 30, 2025, 2:55 PM

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it is certainly possible, generally training an object detection model is quite complicated if you are going to do it by hand. It requires tens of thousands of images.

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Frigate+ is a service which offers this for a fee, allowing users to annotate images and get an object detection model that is fine-tuned on their cameras https://frigate.video/plus/

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night zinc Jul 30, 2025, 2:57 PM

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yeah, but i want to track/classify fish

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i see that classification models isn't available so far..?

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i have trained a model before for fish

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so i was just wondering if it's possible to use this in frigate in a way

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iron shoal Jul 30, 2025, 3:14 PM

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night zinc i see that classification models isn't available so far..?

I have implemented support for classification models in 0.17, but that version is under early development

night zinc Jul 30, 2025, 3:14 PM

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first and foremost i want to just count the number of fish, but the next step is being able to classify them. we want to know the species

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i'd love to use frigate+ for this, but it needs to support the fish label 🙂

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but i really suspect frigate maybe isn't the right tool for this?

iron shoal Jul 30, 2025, 3:28 PM

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Yeah if detecting fish is the goal, it could be accomplished in a simpler manor using software that isn't primarily an NVR

night zinc Jul 30, 2025, 3:33 PM

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do you have any suggestions on how to do that? because i don't want to do object detection on every single frame. i only want to do this on motion, for instance

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it seems like most of the implementations rely on writing your own code. which i'm not against, per se, but if there's already a framework available out there..

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