Rebuilding the Frigate UI for 0.14 #11136
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This is awesome! |
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by default it is the last 24 hours, or a specific day can be selected on the calendar |
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Perfect |
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24 hours by default, then the specific day when choosing a date which would include the morning and evening of that day. It's always easy to look at last night each morning. |
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Amazing work! Looking forward to this. 👏🏼 |
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Oh man, I can't wait to jump on that beta! I'm excited about the alerts function and scrubbing!! Outstanding work guys! Edit: When you say you plan to release the beta soon... you mean like in a few hours, right? lol |
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It is somehow possible to configure one object to alert in multiple zones, while another object alerts in one zone, and only detects in another? |
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yes, just set which objects each zone applies to. You can configure this in the UI by editing your zone and setting which objects apply to that zone |
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Yep. I currently do this. On my driveway camera, I have alerts set to person and car, but on my front yard camera, only person alerts where other labels are marked for detection. The alerts and detections configuration are per camera. |
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I think I phrased my question improperly. In the UI, in individual zone settings, it seems like I can only enable or disable objects for the zone, but not for alerts and detections specifically, but I'd want to accomplish the following: Person enters ZONE 1 and then crosses into ZONE 2 - alert for both So I guess I'm looking for a required_zones setting on a per object basis. |
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you would need 3 zones to accomplish this zone 2, required for alerts and has person and car object |
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Awesome stuff, really looking forward to it!
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Frigate+ has been available for about 8 months now, you just need to email blake@frigate.video to request access |
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looks very promising. Will there be a version optimized for mobile devices? |
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the UI has been built with both desktop and mobile views in mind |
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I just tried the dev build and the new interface really is a vast improvement on both the desktop and mobile. The switching from static to live images on motion is a very neat trick and superbly implemented. The loading times are also so fast that they might replace my existing professional NVR altogether and the new Motion Tuner and Frigate+ Score Range filter are two really helpful details. Overtall, very well done and a big improvement in the right direction. The only issue I found so far is that the interface elements on the mobile version are quite small and hard to hit at the moment . |
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Looks very impressive and looking forward to the beta. It looks like your revenue from Frigate+ was well spent and I will gladly support you with this effort... I am one of those that completely dumped my proprietary NVR system and adopted Frigate. |
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I don't speak for the project but personally I can see the integration sensors and services progressing but I think the media browser gets replaced with a link to the frigate ui in the sidebar |
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Like @NickM-27, I am only a contributor to the project so I can't speak to future goals and direction. But the new UI does not provide automation features, notifications, or sensors. Home Assistant and Frigate work very well together, and there has been no discussion to change that whatsoever. |
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Completely understandable.. I personally find myself using the Frigate Proxy more often to review events, etc and just use HA for the alerts and quick viewing of the cameras. |
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FWIW my vote would be against dropping the media browser - it's really useful and is an easy way to integrate with media players in HA (e.g. cast device) |
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When I saw the title I thought "oh they are finally making it possible for non-experts to configure Frigate. Maybe I will never have to type 'nano config.yml' again because I entered one wrong character and now Frigate won't start". |
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frigate has supported a config editor for over a year now, this config editor checks your file validity before restarting among other benefits like lint checking and auto complete. so there really is no reason to be using nano |
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also, the new UI does make more things configurable directly from the UI |
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Motion/object masks, motion parameters, and new camera groups can be configured from the new UI without editing the config file, but configuring every parameter from frigate exclusively from the UI is a massive development undertaking. I suspect frigate will get there eventually. |
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And yet somehow a user with a significantly developed homelab and over a year of Frigate experience still makes configuration errors and has trouble understanding how Frigate works. What do you attribute that to exactly? Low IQ? Moral failing? |
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Maybe just frustration getting the best of you. We've all been there. Always be ready to poke at the logs when things go south. It also took me a while to get used to Frigate's configuration. |
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No, the answer is obviously that Frigate is difficult to configure properly and not well documented. Let me be clear that this is NOT a complaint. I'm just stating my opinion that a camera viewing GUI is low-priority compared to a configuration UI. That's it. |
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I have to disagree, the inability to review motion footage is a big pain point for us and I have found Frigate's documentation to be better than many other projects that I have used. It does have a learning curve but after some time spent it is pretty straightforward in my opinion |
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A configuration UI would be nice, but obviously that wasn't part of the original set of goals, and has been set back in favor of high quality and accurate object detection. Also, did you know that you can copy/paste the example "full configuration" from the docs into your own file and start removing things that you aren't changing? If you're still having trouble, maybe start over by doing that. |
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It would be nice to have an "Add camera" wizard and camera config editor in the UI to be fair but now my cameras are setup I rarely need to touch the config whereas I do quite often review footage so I'm pretty excited for this. I'd say for most people the ability to view footage is likely to be more important. |
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yes, that will come in some future version |
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This is awesome to see, we might fully drop Blue Iris when this launches if it solves all of our needs |
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I did that nearly two years ago. |
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I have been checking in on progress/using a dev build every few weeks the past few weeks and I was always wondering/waiting for the Debug view for the camera I just started using the latest dev build and wow, you guys have done a great job! I was blind and missing the Settings page and it is really great! Nice work, especially @hawkeye217 and @NickM-27, I know you guys have been busy! |
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I just pulled the dev build today as well.. any pointers from your end so far? :) |
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Nope, seems to be running pretty well! If I experience anything strange I would politely open an issue and follow best reporting practices to not be a headache for the active developers who are managing a pretty large userbase! Running a dev build I would take on additional responsibility if you can to look into problems or just revert back to stable if something is not to your liking 🤷 |
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That’s my plan. I’ve got a list 😊 |
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We do want feedback, will help to either fix things or give ideas for things that need to be emphasized in the beta release notes |
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Great job. That looks amazing so far. Are there any configuration changes that need to be made before switching from v0.13 to 0.14 dev? |
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It looks like the config migration didn't like something in my config file because frigate won't start after changing to v14. |
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Do you have a decimal as one of your points? Otherwise I may have just missed something when working on the conversion to relative coordinates |
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I don't see anything, but I'll send you my config via a discord DM just in case. |
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Perfect |
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This same problem. If anybody resolve this problem please describe how. My ovinf config https://pastebin.com/dmSkGepa 2024-05-11 19:02:07.549507734 invalid literal for int() with base 10: '0.0' |
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This looks awesome. I would like to see a password protected UI just to keep people from casually getting into the config or camera feed. |
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There's already a feature request. See #1074 |
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With the Home Assistant/MQTT Integration, will there be different events published for an "alert" as opposed to a "detection" and "motion" events? |
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Naturally the messages are not 1:1 |
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alright, trying to play around with Notifications in HA for alerts as opposed to events. Have you implemented notifications based on the alerts part of the /reviews endpoint at all? |
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you can not use a review ID for the event clips / snapshots. As part of the payload there is a list of |
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Ooh the new preview gif and MP4 files would be nice! |
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home assistant integrations are not compiled, you only need to add a few lines to make it work blakeblackshear/frigate-hass-integration#664 |
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Firstly thanks so much for being constantly active here and listening to your needs. I guess I will have to eat the dog shit like I promised! lol. One thing: I absolutely love that I can scroll through the timeline and see all the events from all the cameras in sync. But what I really, really need (since I don't use events) is a timeline with a playhead where I can set the playhead at a specific place on the timeline and ALL the cameras will sync up to that specific point, then I want to press Play All and see all the cameras play in sync together. Please please please please I beg you to implement this. As I explained in a previous post, I live in Europe and it's very common to live in townhouses where your doorstep is level with the sidewalk and just have a meter of distance between your front porch and the sidewalk, with people walking by the detections are moot because an urban neighborhood of townhouses will see hundreds of people walking past the door every day just to go to work etc. So as you can imagine, in situations like that when the timeline is saturated with motion events that are merely people walking past the camera, it becomes totally irrelevant and the relevancy is more about being able to quickly play all sources in sync and without stuttering. One thing I suffer with is the stuttering when the player moves from one 10s segment to another. Every time it moves from segment A to segment B to segment C and so on, I get a half-second stutter. The more you increase the playback scale, the more stuttering. It's like a buffering effect. And if you play at 16x kiss bye bye to your sanity! As you will see is incessant stuttering as the player cannot move to the next segment seamlessly. Please for the love of almighty Jesus Christ address this major issue. It's during playback/review that any NVR shines... All NVRs can record, indeed my cameras will happily let me throw all the raw footage into a simple NFS mount. But it is the reviewing itself to find the crucial moments that makes a NVR special. I know you guys focus on detections but seriously your NVR can't be touched in terms of development speed and I sincerely hope you listen to my plight and do it 🙏🏻 God bless. PS. I was just thinking I forgot to mention how exporting easily is equally as important as finding the relevant event in question. Currently I have to use dropdowns to select camera, whether it's live or a timelapse, and then use date/time fields. I wish I could quickly use a timeline to set in/out points just like I can do in a video editing app... put the start handle at the beginning of where I want to export and the finish handle at the end of my export, then select cameras with checkboxes, click "export" and job done, the visual timeline would help a lot. But for those who want to still be exact please include a button to "enter date and time". |
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this already exists in the recordings viewer page like it is shown in the demo the motion viewer also supports a play button that will just play back previews of all cameras at the same time
as part of the new UI we have switched to a new HLS player (hls.js from video.js) so it is possible that this change will fix what you are describing. I used to have buffering when setting the playback speed to 8x or higher but with the new player I do not |
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exporting using handles on the timeline is already implemented as well Screen.Recording.2024-04-29.at.6.42.41.AM.mov |
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@Majestic7979 also one other thing to note, there is a new "loitering time" field that is added to zones. So maybe you will find that you want to use "events" (reviews) now, because you can make it an alert if a person loiters but a detection if the person just walks by. That way you get more information on the timeline of when an object was detected |
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Thanks, I'm very eager to explore and see how it all works with my own footage. And I hope the development goes well :) How do I subscribe to support? Because I don't necessarily need the AI detections/models I don't subscribe to Frigate+, it would be nice to have a basic tier where I just make monthly payments to basically thank you guys for your development and customer service. It would be nice to be able to decide how much I can contribute rather than having a fixed price, that way I could vary based on an ongoing budget. While I'd like to pay for the work, some months would be less, some more, I'd rather give something rather than nothing on those months when budget is tigther. Edit: just saw you addressing the other issues. OMG you guys are freaking amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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@Majestic7979 I've been super impressed with frigate+ detection. Even the base model is leaps and bounds more confident that the yolo model. A huge benefit is that you are given 12 "trainings" that allow you to tweak your model to your specific environment, and at the same time upgrade to newly released base models. You also don't need to keep your subscription active (although it needs to be active to train new models / upgrade to new base models.) Even after you deactivate your subscription, you can still use the superior + models! All that said, I'm really desperately waiting for improvements to the training process, but it still works ok. My issue is mostly with the difficultly in going back over images you've already trained and tweaking them. It's very clumsy at the moment, but I it'll get better. Just giving a recommendation as someone who was very weary of "if it's worth it," and sharing personal camera images that could eventually be used in the base model. I've gotten over it. It's been pretty incredible. (the "free" models are trained on images that are far different than what a security camera sees. By crowd sourcing actual camera images, it's made a far more accurate model.) |
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Been trialling the new ui as well and like it so far however I'm totally missing birdseye now has it been removed or is it hidden somewhere? Lastly is there any way to change the grid in "live view" I have 4 cameras and to utilise all space it would make more sense to grid them 2x2 instead of just 4 in a row? Thanks |
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Add a new Camera Group using the + button on the left of the Live view window. |
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You can also add Birdseye to a group if you want to |
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Loving the direction with 14 so far, pan and zoom is amazing. Quite a lot of things I miss but this isn't about that, just some quick things on the links to other cameras in the history playback. Is there a plan for 'no preview found' to be less animated? I have 3 disabled cameras and it's a bit attention pulling. And then I have this camera at 2560x1920 that seems to be causing some layout issue with the previews and they just flicker horrendously: (looks like it might be to do with .items-center class being added and removed) |
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The animation is supposed to be for loading so when no preview is found it should not be animated. Disabled cameras is difficult because there's no way to know it was disabled at the time. It may make sense try just hide those previews entirely for cameras that don't have a preview. |
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Ah ok that makes sense, yeah I'm aware disabled cameras is an awkward config! |
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Situation: I'm starting from Live view. I click one of the 5 cameras. I enter the big Live view for that camera. I click the History button to open the timeline. I expect that when I click the timeline the video will load to that moment in time almost instantly and start playing, but it takes ages to load with a spinning cursor, it almost feels like a VCR waiting seeking the right spot on the tape. Why so slow to load if it's local!? Curious if it might be my system... I run a 13th gen Core i5 13500 with 32GB DDR5 and a WD Purple HDD that Nick recommended. PS. doing fast playback is also not working. For example 8X... |
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you'll need to use the browser debug tools on the network tab to see what is happening, what the load times are, etc. in my testing of the scenario you laid out it starts playing within a second are you saying that fast playback doesn't work in that scenario or that it does not work at all? 16x playback does not buffer at all for me |
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Using dev-a70dd02 the UI has become weird in firefox (linux desktop). The webcam area has shrunk and an iframe like bar has appeared at the bottom after clicking a thumbnail.
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In my testing setting my timezone to a different one things still work as expected, so you may be seeing a different issue |
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@NickM-27, I updated to db49ec. And followed these steps:
At this point i went directly to the recordings folder on the server and scp'ed it over on the desktop for viewing. This behavior is seen on quite a number of recordings. When thumbnail is clicked some other recording for the top of the hour shows up and is frozen. However, there are recordings which play fine as well. So the behavior is unpredictable. |
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Right, the changes made only affect the current hour previews. So is this is happening with that then it's unrelated to the change made. |
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ok, I am trying to watch an event (recording) at 11:20PM which was recorded at 10:47pm . Preview works fine but the recording does not. Does that qualify as current hour event? These test were with dev-058e9a3. |
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Current hour in this case would be anything between 11:00 PM and 11:20PM. With that being said, it sounds like things are mostly working correctly. The recordings are loaded in hour m3u8 chunks, which is working. But for some reason it seems like your browser is is signaling that it seeked from the beginning of the playlist (9:59) to the necessary time (10:47) but it actually has not. This most likely has nothing to do with timezones, if I had to guess this is simply a bug in the browser itself. I and other devs are not able to reproduce this behavior at all. I have tested on MacOS (chrome, safari, firefox) or on windows. Blake also said he does not see the issue on Ubuntu in Chrome or Firefox. I think we will just need to wait until the beta where there may be more users that see this then we can have a better understanding if there is a pattern that shows a specific OS / browser combo is the problem or some other pattern. |
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If you are not doing any tests over WAN (vpn or cellphone network), strongly suggest to do that. You may find UI issues which dont appear on the local LAN. |
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The maintainers have all been using this full time for multiple months, which of course includes using it on WAN... |
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How about on a slow WAN? I ask because I have seen weirdness in .13 when trying to play recordings from a remote site with a max 2MB upload link. It can take a long time (minutes) to start playing a recording. Playing an event clip seems to work okay, but selecting a specific hour for a specific camera can be problematic (in my configuration). Is there a targeted minimum supported bandwidth? |
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recordings are a lot of bandwidth, if you are going have slow speeds it will take a while to load. Thankfully with the previews most of the UI works on slow connections as the file sizes are very low. But if you need to view full recordings it will be slow to load on a low speed connection, there is no way around that |
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I get that there is a lot of potential data to transfer, I have had to set my remote cameras set to low frame rates / bit rates so it's possible to stream them. [In v .13] when I go to cameras, recordings, and click on an event or a top of the hour link, it can take a long time to start streaming. When I do this, how much gets downloaded by the UI prior to the streaming starting? or for that matter does it actually stream when playing recordings, or does it download the recording first before playing anything locally? I guess I am looking for a quick description of how buffering / streaming / playback works. My observation is that when I play clips from the events page, the streaming lag delays are what I would expect, but when I try to play the same events from the recordings page, or if I try to play from a point in time on the recordings page, I frequently see longer delays before it starts playing. Should I expect this? |
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It depends on a lot of factors. For both of the events and recordings views in 0.13 frigate uses HLS. In frigate 0.13 video.js was used. Now in frigate 0.14 we use HLS.js which does buffer differently than video.js but it all boils down to the same which is that it buffers from the ~ 10 seconds segments that frigate recordings are saved in. |
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Here are a few of my thoughts/observations about the UX in the new UI:
On the bottom is image from tablet, it is impossible to click any button. Even on PC trying to click settings icon randomly asks me if I want to restart frigate.
Sometimes UI is shiftet and unusable at all, windows:
No feedback on birdseye, no idea if I see something or if there is something wrong with frigate/network/tablet: |
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the vast majority of users that have wall displays use home assistant for their dashboards along with the frigate card, so I don't think this is a priority. In general something that is usable from 4 meters away is just going to have to be designed differently than something that is designed to be used up close. Perhaps in the future a "kiosk mode" can be considered but I wouldn't expect things to change in this way for 0.14 |
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and just a note, live camera grid dashboard is editable so if you would like to edit the sizing just create a camera group and design the layout the way you want |
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so maybe a feature request - some easy way to implement custom frontends, lets say bunch of helpers to get stream, camera list, etc? So user can create custom FE from scratch. |
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there are a number of frontend projects out there for frigate already. The APIs are documented in the docs. Can you elaborate on what you mean by "helpers", as in like better documentation for the APIs or do you mean something else? |
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ahh sorry I am overworked maybe :) and totally forgot about API, yeah REST and MQTT should do the job. |
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This is very exciting and I want try out 0.14 but I'm running into a config issue. Could someone take a look and see what I'm doing wrong. Thanks. Here is the error message I receive: and here is my config |
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That may be your best bet. 0.14 has a much improved, easy to use mask editor. |
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so I commented out the mask and this is my new log file (any suggestions): |
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what is your current config file |
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you say "the mask" but both of the motion masks were wrong, to be clear |
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I must not have saved the config properly. I just double checked it and resaved it and now everything works great. thanks for the help everyone. |
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Auth working, very nice. |
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The auth is listening at 8080 rather than 5000. You need to expose 8080:8080 in docker, then goto http://frigateurl:8080 |
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I have the ports exposed. But I didn't call it with this port. Thanks. Now ok |
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Can we pass basic auth credentials via URL to pre-auth when accessing a url, say from a notification? |
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You would have to add a JWT token as a header. I will add this to the list of things to think about. |
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I pulled down |
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a. In general you would use the frigate+ page for checking for false positives to submit. Otherwise snapshots are not available in the UI. Swiping / hovering to view the preview is very quick to see if the object detected was actually there |
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a) Is frigate+ part of service and not part of selfhosted? Is there going to be a special page on UI to send stuff to frigate+ or you want me to upload every detection to your servers? False detections is not always possible to be worked on live using debugging. I can not force the sun fall at certain angle that creates shadows that get false positive detections. Having a history of false positives with exact detection object helps to nail down that issue. Frigate is getting more mature but AI is detection is nowhere near perfect. Will snapshots stay available to the API feeding HA for notifications? |
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a. frigate+ page is a new page in the new UI for uploading to the frigate+ server. it includes many filters and sorting options like sorting by score to make it easy to find and submit false positives. Yes snapshots still work the same as before they just are not used in the UI except in the frigate+ page |
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I have a strange behavior that seems to have started with the last couple of dev updates. I am currently running the latest. It seems like when one of the cameras has a positive alert or detection, they all deactivate detect, record, snapshots and audio. I have not figured out exactly what causes it, but I noticed my detections have gone down significantly over the past few days and it was become everything was off. Is there a new setting I am not aware of? |
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Sounds like an automation or something gone wrong. I don't see any way those things would be related, and we've seen no other reports |
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ok.. if it keeps happening, I will dig deeper into it. I do have HA automations, but they are just notifications. Would updating cause the settings to deactivate? |
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You can check the logs, it will say when it is changed via MQTT or websocket |
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Nevermind.. it was something in the Chrome cache that was making it appear they were deactivated. It would only happen when I closed the browser and reopened it. Everytime I did the sequence of open and close the browser, it would show them to be deactivated. I checked it in Firefox and it behaved normally. Once I cleared cache and settings, it cleared up. If it starts acting up again, I will report it.. |
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if i set auth mode to proxy but don't actually have any upstream auth is that effectively the same as disabling auth? I ask because my frigate instance isn't publicly available and I dont want to deal with being presented a login page to access--whether thats from Frigate itself or upstream |
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then you should just access frigate using port 5000 the same as before |
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missed that part in the new docs, awesome, thank you |
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just wondering for curiosity sake, i remember you all talking about 0.13 focusing on improving motion/object detection, then 0.14 being UI focused, any info your willing to share on big picture things for 0.15? |
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It will likely be a lot of efficiency based things. Some ideas are moving away from python for some implementations (motion / object detection), updating ffmpeg to 7.0 which supports multithreading for its filters, etc |
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I'm curious if object classification is something that is on the roadmap for perhaps 0.15? Being able to filter by vehicle type, color, etc would be amazing, also on top of built in LPR support. And of course, better integration into Double Take or built in facial recognition would also be amazing. |
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Potentially via #8980 |
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Is there a rough time line for when you expect to be in beta? I've been tinkering with 0.13 but would prefer to wait for 0.14 to dive all in and sunset my current dvr. |
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Within a week or two most likely |
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I may be wrong but I thought that a few builds ago we had CPU and temperature stats in the system stats page but this seems to be gone!? Can we please have this again. It helped me identify issues with my CPU decoding so I purchased a Coral for detection and want to see if it has made a difference. |
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There have been no changes to the system stats. Temperature stats have only ever existed as m.2 coral temperature stats, not sure if that is what you are referring to. |
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No it's not, I think I'm getting myself confused. I saw temperature and cpu stats somewhere and I was thinking it was frigate. Sorry, I am probably mistaken. PS Sorry again, it was Nextcloud that allowed me to see system stats, not Frigate. My bad. I manage a lot of systems, it can sometimes be overwhelming to remember everything. |
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TLDR: We have completely overhauled the UI for Frigate to focus on specific common user goals. It’s a big change and we hope you love it. This is just where we started, and the new UI isn’t entirely at feature parity with the current release yet.
Updated Documentation
Guided Demo of new UI
We plan to release the first beta soon.
Background
Frigate started as a stateless object detection pipeline for live video fees with information relayed over MQTT to be used in Home Assistant. Initially, I had no intention of building a UI for it. HomeAssistant was the UI. After a few years of releases in January 2021, a community contribution with a basic web UI was made as a part of version 0.8.0. Since then, the UI has always been treated as a basic interface to expose some of the backend information that Frigate was using to detect and track objects. As new features like clips and recordings were added the UI was updated to provide an interface to view them.
A new approach
As Frigate has become more mature, it has evolved from a real time object detection pipeline into an NVR. While it still lacks some of the customization and features from NVR solutions that have existed for longer, many users are migrating from those platforms and using Frigate as their primary NVR solution. However, Frigate’s UI was never designed around specific user goals, nor was any real thought put into the efficiency of accomplishing common tasks.
Frigate+ was created in part to help fund the future development of Frigate. While still in the early phases, the initial revenue from Frigate+ subscriptions created an opportunity to hire outside resources for revamping Frigate’s UI. After looking at various options, I decided to hire Jim Designs.
The Goals
I wanted to design the new UI around specific user goals with the intent to have a UI that allows accomplishing those goals as quickly and efficiently as possible. The following goals are where we started. I expect we will continue to find better ways of accomplishing these goals in the future as well as incorporate additional goals.
What is happening right now and/or what just happened?
The first use case centers around the need to quickly see what is happening or what just happened. Imagine you hear a sound outside, your dog barks, or the doorbell rings and you want to quickly be able to see your cameras.
The new home page for Frigate is intended to be a real time dashboard for your cameras. Recent alerts are represented by animated thumbnails in a filmstrip view above your camera feeds. Your camera images update once per minute when no detectable activity is occurring to conserve bandwidth and resources. As soon as any motion is detected, cameras seamlessly switch to a live stream. In addition, camera groups have been added so you can quickly switch between indoor and outdoor cameras.
Selecting a camera takes you to a new live view where the scroll wheel can be used to zoom in and out.
What happened last night (or the past 24 hours)?
A common use case for security cameras is reviewing last night’s footage for any concerning activity. The first step of that process is checking to see what Frigate detected. In the current UI, this is accomplished by scrolling through your events. Because events are simply low level tracked objects, their time ranges may overlap or still be in progress. This makes it difficult to review a timeline of video without jumping around or watching the same section of video multiple times. If a person walks by with their dog and a car drives by at the same time, you will end up with 3 separate events all with overlapping time ranges. It is difficult to reason about what periods of time you have and haven’t reviewed.
In order to switch to a more timeline oriented review process, we implemented a new area of the app for reviewing video footage. When reviewing, Frigate intelligently identifies parts of your timeline for review by leveraging the underlying data about motion and tracked objects. These time periods are mutually exclusive, so once you have reviewed a portion of the timeline for a camera, it is marked as reviewed.
The other primary focus was on efficiency. We wanted users to be able to review these segments as efficiently as possible. Rather than scrolling through a timeline and trying to align a single point with an indication of activity, we implemented a scrollable grid of thumbnails alongside a timeline. Hovering (or swiping on mobile) over the thumbnails will start a preview playback for the segment inline. You can also grab the progress bar to scrub through the segment.
After watching a segment, it is marked as reviewed.
Lastly, not all segments are created equal. Video of people who enter your property are a different priority than those walking by on the sidewalk. By default, all person and car objects are considered alerts. You can refine what ends up in the alert tab by configuring required zones for your events.
Was anything missed last night?
In the current release, there isn’t a way to see motion activity on a timeline and watch video at that time. The ability to scrub video for things Frigate missed has been one of the most common feature requests.
Within the Motion tab of review, you can now scrub through the timeline for all cameras simultaneously with a timeline showing relative motion activity.
In order to avoid scrubbing over time periods already included in alerts and detections, you can scrub in motion only mode.
Other Notable Improvements
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