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This would be an awesome feature to have. Id love to use the Frigate UI when I am working/gaming but I am forced to use Home Assistant for continuous viewing. |
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If your premise is correct, then I would like this feature also. I thought Frigate already had a fallback behavior for cameras where motion isn't enabled, since the live mechanism seems to depend on it. Your second list suggests that the most relevant way to implement this would be on a per-camera basis. So, under config under each camera an optional entry like To provide a specific use case example: We will have some cameras that aren't used for automations and are situated in areas you can't get to or from without being picked up by several other motion enabled cameras. Some of these will overlook our backyard, the playground-ish area for the kids and our fields in hilly terrain. In other words, motion would likely frequently be triggered by stuff we don't care about, like plants moving, tractors in the field, shadows from clouds, etc. It would likely not be triggered by what we actually want, for example the kids in the playground, because of the distance to those events. We cannot set up motion in a way that would work. For example, a large tractor in the field in the foreground is of no interest, while a small camouflaged hunter 1 km away is of high interest. We don't care about a person on the ride on lawn mower, but we'd like to be able to see that our kids are ok in their playground area if we're inside cooking and they're outside playing. But that's a partially obstructed view at around 70 m distance. We don't care about the horses themselves, but if the fence is suddenly drooping, we'd be very interested. So we'd like to simply be able to see that camera live (together with other cameras) under certain circumstances, but we wouldn't want/need (mostly irrelevant) motion events to clog up events. I thought non motion cameras in Frigate would already exhibit this behavior om dashboards, so I can only support the suggestion. |
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Is birdseye mode still a thing in 0.14? |
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I really like this feature. I want to setup a dedicated pc with frigate installed. The pc should auto login and open frigate in firefox in kiosk mode. I want to see the live view of the cameras all times. The pc, on which frigate is installed, has the resources to always show the livestreams of the cameras. |
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+1 for this, would be very useful to have ability to configure this! |
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@kensand |
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I also spent hours debugging my frigate installation because it isn't live and honestly I couldn't conceive this is the intended behavior. As far as I'm concerned this is a duh feature and live should be the default. The maintainers arguments sound like they are worried about people using a Tamagotchi to run 20 cameras. I really appreciate the work they are doing but this is 2024. In my 30 years as a C/C++ programmer and CTO I always fought against the "we know best" mindset on display here. The most obvious first test people will perform is to check if they are at least getting live video. I wonder how many people gave up on frigate and HA because of this frustration when that simple expectation was not met. |
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I like this feature. And I would vote for making it as the default. Personally I thought there are issues with my cameras and/or setups when I saw some cameras did not update and spent a lot of time to only find out that it is an expected behavior. |
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Please fix |
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Please upvote this if you would like to see this feature added! The code is already written!
This is important so maintainers can gauge support for the feature.
If you have another idea for how this can be implemented, perhaps in a less easily misconfigured manner, please comment below. One idea I had was to enable continuous live streams on a per-camera basis.
Per #12684 and #12682, continuous live streams of cameras on the dashboard and camera groups is not directly supported by Frigate. Cameras only begin streaming if Automatic Live View is enabled in the settings page and once motion is detected. If Automatic Live View is disabled, snapshot views of the cameras on the dashboard and camera groups will only update once per minute.
For my personal use case, I have both the bandwidth and server resources to support a continuous live stream for all my cameras, so I prefer to be able to view these live streams continuously regardless of whether there is ongoing motion.
The suggested workarounds for this issue are:
Some other downsides to not having this feature:
Frigate maintainers have expressed concerns about the possibility of misconfiguration with this setting, which would cause a greater use of system resources and bandwidth. While I can't say I agree with this opinion, I understand it. I will note that I personally spent over an hour trying to figure out why live streams weren't working, and that I had to dive into the frontend code to understand the problem. At a minimum, I think this needs to be added to the FAQ and/or live stream page in the docs (which I plan to make a separate PR for).
In the meantime, I will be maintaining my own Frigate fork containing #12684, if anyone else needs this feature. It should automatically sync with the upstream repo using the Github pull app
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