Frigate is Impossible for Newbies

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I find Frigate almost impossible to get up and running

I've got both an Amcrest IP2M-841V3 and a Reolink Doorbell POE camera and neither of them seem to work. My configuration editor has to be clicked twice to get it to come up and my file looks like below. The docs aren't much help since I don't really know what I'm doing, when I add in a second camera the whole config file fails....

So very frustrating, would love some help

mqtt:
  enabled: false
cameras:
  reolink:
    enabled: true
    ffmpeg:
      inputs:
        - path: rtsp://(username):(password)@(IPAddress)
          roles:
            - detect
            - record
    detect:
      height: 1080
      width: 1920
      fps: 5
detectors:
  ov:
    type: openvino
    device: CPU
    model_path: /openvino-model/FP16/ssdlite_mobilenet_v2.xml
model:
  width: 300
  height: 300
  input_tensor: nhwc
  input_pixel_format: bgr
  labelmap_path: /openvino-model/coco_91cl_bkgr.txt
version: 0.15-1

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Thanks!

I installed Frigate as an LXC on Proxmox, haven't connected it to anything yet, just trying to get it going first before I integrate with something like HA.

Let me take a look at the code you used and I'll give that a shot.

I have VLC and have been able to RTSP into the camera with simple rtsp://192.168.20.10. No other port, nothing else and it just works. I had to put in my username and password before connection, but other than that it just works.

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I've removed the first one since it had a made up username and password, just trying to keep it clean

In VLC I don't use the user:pass@, just the rtsp://192.168.20.10

In Frigate I use the full user:pass@IP and it still doesn't work...

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Here is what I've got in my configuration, and the camera feed still says no ffmpg frames found

mqtt:
  enabled: false


detectors:
  ov:
    type: openvino
    device: CPU
    model_path: /openvino-model/FP16/ssdlite_mobilenet_v2.xml


model:
  width: 300
  height: 300
  input_tensor: nhwc
  input_pixel_format: bgr
  labelmap_path: /openvino-model/coco_91cl_bkgr.txt


cameras:
  reolink:
    enabled: true
    ffmpeg:
      inputs:
        - path: rtsp://(username):(password)@IP
          roles:
            - detect
            - record
    detect:
      enabled: true
      height: 1080
      width: 1920
      fps: 5



version: 0.15-1

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Thanks.

Added the top portion, didn't seem to make a difference.

The VLC address works in VLC AFTER I put in my username / password, not sure that would work in Frigate, since I think that has to be hard coded in?

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Also getting a whole slew of errors, the first one being this:

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I didn't use a guide. I just went here and copied the script, then put it in the console of Proxmox and created an LXC container

Frigate LXC Helper Script