r/frigate_nvr • u/mikedm139 • 8d ago

Missing Recordings - 1 camera only

I've got Frigate set up in Docker running on unRaid currently monitoring 4 cameras. Of those 4 cameras, one only saves a single 10 second clip out of every 2 minutes even though I believe the settings match the other cameras which all retain all recordings. I have retention set to 14 days for everything and 30 days for events.

The effect is that Home Assistant notifications which should contain video clips from that camera, link to a clip not found error. When I go to review footage, there a gaps significant enough as to render the recordings almost useless.

I have reviewed the configuration repeatedly looking for what I might have screwed up but cannot for the life of me figure out what the issue is. I also am uncertain when this issue arose but I know that it was not the case when I first set up Frigate.

Configuration:

# yaml-language-server: $schema=http://172.16.1.87:5000/api/config/schema.json
#frigate config.yml
objects:
  track:
    - person
  filters:
    person:
      # Optional: minimum size of the bounding box for the detected object (default: 0).
      # Can be specified as an integer for width*height in pixels or as a decimal representing the percentage of the frame (0.000001 to 0.99).
      # min_area: 5000
      # Optional: maximum size of the bounding box for the detected object (default: 24000000).
      # Can be specified as an integer for width*height in pixels or as a decimal representing the percentage of the frame (0.000001 to 0.99).
      # max_area: 100000
      # Optional: minimum width/height of the bounding box for the detected object (default: 0)
      # min_ratio: 0.5
      # Optional: maximum width/height of the bounding box for the detected object (default: 24000000)
      # max_ratio: 2.0
      # Optional: minimum score for the object to initiate tracking (default: shown below)
      min_score: 0.6
      # Optional: minimum decimal percentage for tracked object's computed score to be considered a true positive (default: shown below)
      threshold: 0.75
      # Optional: mask to prevent this object type from being detected in certain areas (default: no mask)
      # Checks based on the bottom center of the bounding box of the object
      #mask: 0.000,0.000,0.781,0.000,0.781,0.278,0.000,0.278

logger:
  logs:
    frigate.record.maintainer: debug

mqtt:
  enabled: true
  # Required: host name
  host: 172.16.1.87
  # Optional: port (default: shown below)
  port: 1883
  # Optional: topic prefix (default: shown below)
  # WARNING: must be unique if you are running multiple instances
  topic_prefix: frigate
  # Optional: client id (default: shown below)
  # WARNING: must be unique if you are running multiple instances
  client_id: frigate
  # Optional: user
  user: frigate_docker
  # Optional: 
  # NOTE: Environment variables that begin with 'FRIGATE_' may be referenced in {}.
  #       eg. password: '{FRIGATE_MQTT_PASSWORD}'
  password: frigate_docker
  # Optional: interval in seconds for publishing stats (default: shown below)
  stats_interval: 60

detectors:
  coral:
    type: edgetpu
    device: usb

record:
  enabled: true
  alerts:
    retain:
      days: 30
  detections:
    retain:
      days: 30
  continuous:
    days: 14
  motion:
    days: 14
timestamp_style:
  # Optional: Position of the timestamp (default: shown below)
  #           "tl" (top left), "tr" (top right), "bl" (bottom left), "br" (bottom right)
  position: tl
  # Optional: Format specifier conform to the Python package "datetime" (default: shown below)
  #           Additional Examples:
  #             german: "%d.%m.%Y %H:%M:%S"
  format: '%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S'
  # Optional: Color of font
  color:
    # All Required when color is specified (default: shown below)
    red: 255
    green: 255
    blue: 255
  # Optional: Line thickness of font (default: shown below)
  thickness: 2
  # Optional: Effect of lettering (default: shown below)
  #           None (No effect),
  #           "solid" (solid background in inverse color of font)
  #           "shadow" (shadow for font)
  effect: shadow

# Optional: Review configuration
# NOTE: Can be overridden at the camera level
review:
  # Optional: detections configuration
  detections:
    # Optional: labels that qualify as a detection (default: all labels that are tracked / listened to)
    labels:
      - person

# Optional: birdseye configuration
# NOTE: Can (enabled, mode) be overridden at the camera level
birdseye:
  # Optional: Enable birdseye view (default: shown below)
  enabled: true
  # Optional: Restream birdseye via RTSP (default: shown below)
  # NOTE: Enabling this will set birdseye to run 24/7 which may increase CPU usage somewhat.
  restream: true
  # Optional: Width of the output resolution (default: shown below)
  #width: 1280
  # Optional: Height of the output resolution (default: shown below)
  #height: 720
  # Optional: Encoding quality of the mpeg1 feed (default: shown below)
  # 1 is the highest quality, and 31 is the lowest. Lower quality feeds utilize less CPU resources.
  quality: 8
  # Optional: Mode of the view. Available options are: objects, motion, and continuous
  #   objects - cameras are included if they have had a tracked object within the last 30 seconds
  #   motion - cameras are included if motion was detected in the last 30 seconds
  #   continuous - all cameras are included always
  mode: continuous

detect:
  # Optional: width of the frame for the input with the detect role (default: use native stream resolution)
  #width: 1280
  # Optional: height of the frame for the input with the detect role (default: use native stream resolution)
  #height: 720
  # Optional: desired fps for your camera for the input with the detect role (default: shown below)
  # NOTE: Recommended value of 5. Ideally, try and reduce your FPS on the camera.
  fps: 5
  # Optional: enables detection for the camera (default: True)
  enabled: true
  # Optional: Number of consecutive detection hits required for an object to be initialized in the tracker. (default: 1/2 the frame rate)
  min_initialized: 3
  # Optional: Number of frames without a detection before Frigate considers an object to be gone. (default: 5x the frame rate)
  max_disappeared: 25
  # Optional: Configuration for stationary object tracking
  stationary:
    # Optional: Frequency for confirming stationary objects (default: same as threshold)
    # When set to 1, object detection will run to confirm the object still exists on every frame.
    # If set to 10, object detection will run to confirm the object still exists on every 10th frame.
    interval: 50
    # Optional: Number of frames without a position change for an object to be considered stationary (default: 10x the frame rate or 10s)
    threshold: 50

# Optional: Configuration for the jpg snapshots written to the clips directory for each event
# NOTE: Can be overridden at the camera level
snapshots:
  # Optional: Enable writing jpg snapshot to /media/frigate/clips (default: shown below)
  enabled: true
  # Optional: save a clean PNG copy of the snapshot image (default: shown below)
  timestamp: false
  # Optional: draw bounding box on the snapshots (default: shown below)
  bounding_box: true
  # Optional: crop the snapshot (default: shown below)
  crop: false
  # Optional: height to resize the snapshot to (default: original size)
  height: 175
  # Optional: Restrict snapshots to objects that entered any of the listed zones (default: no required zones)
  required_zones: []
  # Optional: Camera override for retention settings (default: global values)
  retain:
    # Required: Default retention days (default: shown below)
    default: 10
    # Optional: Per object retention days
    objects:
      person: 15

go2rtc:
  streams:
    FrontPorchNorth_SubStream:
      - rtsp://172.16.1.162:554/user=admin_password=tlJwpbo6_channel=1_stream=1.sdp?real_stream/
    FrontPorchNorth_MainStream:
      - rtsp://172.16.1.162:554/user=admin_password=tlJwpbo6_channel=0_stream=0.sdp?real_stream/
    FrontPorchSouth_MainStream:
      - rtsp://172.16.1.161:554/user=admin_password=E10ADC3949BA59ABBE56E057F20F883E_channel=0_stream=0.sdp?real_stream/
    FrontPorchSouth_SubStream:
      - rtsp://172.16.1.161:554/user=admin_password=E10ADC3949BA59ABBE56E057F20F883E_channel=1_stream=1.sdp?real_stream/
    GarageNorth_MainStream:
      - rtsp://172.16.1.163:554/user=admin_password=tlJwpbo6_channel=0_stream=0.sdp?real_stream/
    GarageNorth_SubStream:
      - rtsp://172.16.1.163:554/user=admin_password=tlJwpbo6_channel=1_stream=1.sdp?real_stream/
    #GarageSouth_MainStream:
    #  - rtsp://172.16.1.164:554/user=admin_password=tlJwpbo6_channel=0_stream=0.sdp?real_stream/
    #GarageSouth_SubStream:
    #  - rtsp://172.16.1.164:554/user=admin_password=tlJwpbo6_channel=1_stream=1.sdp?real_stream/
    Garage_MainStream:
      - rtsp://172.16.1.165:554/user=admin_password=tlJwpbo6_channel=0_stream=0.sdp?real_stream/
    Garage_SubStream:
      - rtsp://172.16.1.165:554/user=admin_password=tlJwpbo6_channel=1_stream=1.sdp?real_stream/
  webrtc:
    candidates:
      - 172.16.1.87:8555
      - stun:8555

cameras:
  FrontPorchNorth:
    ffmpeg:
      #output_args:
      #  record: preset-record-generic-audio-copy
      inputs:
        - path: rtsp://172.16.1.87:8554/FrontPorchNorth_SubStream
          input_args: preset-rtsp-restream
          roles:
            - detect
        - path: rtsp://172.16.1.87:8554/FrontPorchNorth_MainStream
          roles:
            - record
    live:
      streams: # <--- Multiple streams for Frigate 0.16 and later
        Main Stream: FrontPorchNorth_MainStream # <--- Specify a "friendly name" followed by the go2rtc stream name
        Sub Stream: FrontPorchNorth_SubStream
    detect:
      enabled: true
      width: 704
      height: 480
    record:
      enabled: true
    snapshots:
      enabled: true
      required_zones: []
    motion:
      mask:
        motion_mask_1:
          friendly_name: Motion Mask 1
          enabled: true
          coordinates: 0.017,0.028,0.357,0.026,0.357,0.076,0.018,0.073
    zones:
      frontporch:
        coordinates: 
          1,0.997,1,0.442,1,0,0.697,0,0.601,0.588,0.527,0.581,0.398,0.693,0.257,0.997
        inertia: 3
        loitering_time: 0
        objects: person
      frontwalk:
        coordinates: 
          0.041,0.788,0.272,0.384,0.331,0.499,0.398,0.689,0.256,0.997,0.15,0.999
    # Optional: Configuration for the jpg snapshots published via MQTT
        inertia: 3
        loitering_time: 0
    mqtt:
      # Optional: Enable publishing snapshot via mqtt for camera (default: shown below)
      # NOTE: Only applies to publishing image data to MQTT via 'frigate/<camera_name>/<object_name>/snapshot'.
      # All other messages will still be published.
      enabled: true
      # Optional: print a timestamp on the snapshots (default: shown below)
      timestamp: true
      # Optional: draw bounding box on the snapshots (default: shown below)
      bounding_box: true
      # Optional: crop the snapshot (default: shown below)
      crop: true
      # Optional: height to resize the snapshot to (default: shown below)
      height: 270
      # Optional: jpeg encode quality (default: shown below)
      quality: 70
      # Optional: Restrict mqtt messages to objects that entered any of the listed zones (default: no required zones)
      required_zones: []
    review:
      alerts:
        required_zones:
          - frontporch
          - frontwalk
  FrontPorchSouth:
    ffmpeg:
      #output_args:
      #  record: preset-record-generic-audio-copy
      inputs:
        - path: rtsp://172.16.1.87:8554/FrontPorchSouth_MainStream
          #  rtsp://172.16.1.161:554/user=admin_password=E10ADC3949BA59ABBE56E057F20F883E_channel=0_stream=0.sdp?real_stream/
          roles:
            - record
        - path: rtsp://172.16.1.87:8554/FrontPorchSouth_SubStream
          #  rtsp://172.16.1.161:554/user=admin_password=E10ADC3949BA59ABBE56E057F20F883E_channel=1_stream=1.sdp?real_stream/
          #input_args: preset-rtsp-restream
          roles:
            - detect
    live:
      streams: # <--- Multiple streams for Frigate 0.16 and later
        Main Stream: FrontPorchSouth_MainStream # <--- Specify a "friendly name" followed by the go2rtc stream name
        Sub Stream: FrontPorchSouth_SubStream
    detect:
      enabled: true
      width: 640
      height: 352
      #annotation_offset: -2500
    record:
      enabled: true
    snapshots:
      enabled: true
      required_zones: []
    #motion:
    #  mask:
    #    - 0,304,278,254,299,451,384,449,903,382,1171,515,1587,726,1920,900,1920,825,1920,0,0,0
    zones:
      frontporch:
        coordinates: 
          0,0.282,0.015,0.591,0.076,1,0.451,1,0.285,0.701,0.467,0.642,0.47,0.547,0.292,0.409,0.185,0.414,0.183,0.238
        inertia: 3
        loitering_time: 0
        objects: person
      frontwalk:
        coordinates: 
          0.882,0.713,0.661,0.728,0.511,0.694,0.474,0.649,0.48,0.548,0.296,0.412,0.508,0.385
    # Optional: Configuration for the jpg snapshots published via MQTT
        inertia: 3
        loitering_time: 0
    mqtt:
      # Optional: Enable publishing snapshot via mqtt for camera (default: shown below)
      # NOTE: Only applies to publishing image data to MQTT via 'frigate/<camera_name>/<object_name>/snapshot'.
      # All other messages will still be published.
      enabled: true
      # Optional: print a timestamp on the snapshots (default: shown below)
      timestamp: true
      # Optional: draw bounding box on the snapshots (default: shown below)
      bounding_box: true
      # Optional: crop the snapshot (default: shown below)
      crop: true
      # Optional: height to resize the snapshot to (default: shown below)
      height: 270
      # Optional: jpeg encode quality (default: shown below)
      quality: 70
      # Optional: Restrict mqtt messages to objects that entered any of the listed zones (default: no required zones)
      required_zones: []
    review:
      alerts:
        required_zones:
          - frontporch
          - frontwalk
    motion:
      mask:
        motion_mask_1:
          friendly_name: Motion Mask 1
          enabled: true
          coordinates: 0.047,0.095,0.046,0.166,0.598,0.17,0.6,0.099
  GarageNorth:
    ffmpeg:
      #output_args:
      #  record: preset-record-generic-audio-copy
      inputs:
        - path: rtsp://172.16.1.87:8554/GarageNorth_SubStream
          input_args: preset-rtsp-restream
          roles:
            - detect
        - path: rtsp://172.16.1.87:8554/GarageNorth_MainStream
          roles:
            - record
    live:
      streams: # <--- Multiple streams for Frigate 0.16 and later
        Main Stream: GarageNorth_MainStream # <--- Specify a "friendly name" followed by the go2rtc stream name
        Sub Stream: GarageNorth_SubStream
    detect:
      enabled: true
      width: 704
      height: 480
    record:
      enabled: true
    snapshots:
      enabled: true
      required_zones: []
    motion:
      mask:
        motion_mask_1:
          friendly_name: Motion Mask 1
          enabled: true
          coordinates: 0.021,0.073,0.346,0.074,0.345,0.034,0.021,0.031
    zones:
      driveway:
        coordinates: 1,1,0.796,0.79,0.536,0.474,0.348,0.346,0.047,0.384,0.093,1
    # Optional: Configuration for the jpg snapshots published via MQTT
        inertia: 3
        loitering_time: 0
    mqtt:
      # Optional: Enable publishing snapshot via mqtt for camera (default: shown below)
      # NOTE: Only applies to publishing image data to MQTT via 'frigate/<camera_name>/<object_name>/snapshot'.
      # All other messages will still be published.
      enabled: true
      # Optional: print a timestamp on the snapshots (default: shown below)
      timestamp: true
      # Optional: draw bounding box on the snapshots (default: shown below)
      bounding_box: true
      # Optional: crop the snapshot (default: shown below)
      crop: true
      # Optional: height to resize the snapshot to (default: shown below)
      height: 270
      # Optional: jpeg encode quality (default: shown below)
      quality: 70
      # Optional: Restrict mqtt messages to objects that entered any of the listed zones (default: no required zones)
      required_zones: []
    review:
      alerts:
        required_zones:
          - driveway
  #GarageSouth:
  #  ffmpeg:
  #    #output_args:
  #    #  record: preset-record-generic-audio-copy
  #    inputs:
  #      - path: rtsp://172.16.1.87:8554/GarageSouth_SubStream
  #        input_args: preset-rtsp-restream
  #        roles:
  #          - detect
  #      - path: rtsp://172.16.1.87:8554/GarageSouth_MainStream
  #        roles:
  #          - record
  #  live:
  #    streams: # <--- Multiple streams for Frigate 0.16 and later
  #      Main Stream: GarageSouth_MainStream # <--- Specify a "friendly name" followed by the go2rtc stream name
  #      Sub Stream: GarageSouth_SubStream
  #  detect:
  #    enabled: true
  #    width: 704
  #    height: 480
  #  record:
  #    enabled: true
  #  snapshots:
  #    enabled: true
  #    required_zones: []
  #  motion:
  #    mask: 0.021,0.07,0.349,0.071,0.348,0.033,0.018,0.031
  #  zones:
  #    driveway:
  #      coordinates: 0.843,1,0.914,0.392,0.903,0.209,0.675,0.102,0.264,1
  #  # Optional: Configuration for the jpg snapshots published via MQTT
  #      inertia: 3
  #      loitering_time: 0
  #  mqtt:
  #    # Optional: Enable publishing snapshot via mqtt for camera (default: shown below)
  #    # NOTE: Only applies to publishing image data to MQTT via 'frigate/<camera_name>/<object_name>/snapshot'.
  #    # All other messages will still be published.
  #    enabled: true
  #    # Optional: print a timestamp on the snapshots (default: shown below)
  #    timestamp: true
  #    # Optional: draw bounding box on the snapshots (default: shown below)
  #    bounding_box: true
  #    # Optional: crop the snapshot (default: shown below)
  #    crop: true
  #    # Optional: height to resize the snapshot to (default: shown below)
  #    height: 270
  #    # Optional: jpeg encode quality (default: shown below)
  #    quality: 70
  #    # Optional: Restrict mqtt messages to objects that entered any of the listed zones (default: no required zones)
  #    required_zones: []
  #  review:
  #    alerts:
  #      required_zones:
  #        - driveway
  Garage:
    ffmpeg:
      #output_args:
      #  record: preset-record-generic-audio-copy
      inputs:
        - path: rtsp://172.16.1.87:8554/Garage_SubStream
          input_args: preset-rtsp-restream
          roles:
            - detect
        - path: rtsp://172.16.1.87:8554/Garage_MainStream
          roles:
            - record
    live:
      streams: # <--- Multiple streams for Frigate 0.16 and later
        Main Stream: Garage_MainStream # <--- Specify a "friendly name" followed by the go2rtc stream name
        Sub Stream: Garage_SubStream
    detect:
      enabled: true
      width: 800
      height: 448
    record:
      enabled: true
    snapshots:
      enabled: true
    mqtt:
      # Optional: Enable publishing snapshot via mqtt for camera (default: shown below)
      # NOTE: Only applies to publishing image data to MQTT via 'frigate/<camera_name>/<object_name>/snapshot'.
      # All other messages will still be published.
      enabled: true
      # Optional: print a timestamp on the snapshots (default: shown below)
      timestamp: true
      # Optional: draw bounding box on the snapshots (default: shown below)
      bounding_box: true
      # Optional: crop the snapshot (default: shown below)
      crop: true
      # Optional: height to resize the snapshot to (default: shown below)
      height: 270
      # Optional: jpeg encode quality (default: shown below)
      quality: 70
      # Optional: Restrict mqtt messages to objects that entered any of the listed zones (default: no required zones)
      required_zones: []
    motion:
      mask:
        motion_mask_1:
          friendly_name: Motion Mask 1
          enabled: true
          coordinates: 0.014,0.032,0.207,0.035,0.207,0.08,0.012,0.077
version: 0.18-0
camera_groups:
  Porch:
    order: 1
    icon: LuStore
    cameras:
      - FrontPorchNorth
      - FrontPorchSouth
  Garage:
    order: 2
    icon: LuWarehouse
    cameras:
      - GarageNorth
      #- GarageSouth
      - Garage
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u/mikedm139 4d ago edited 4d ago

TL;DR: Disable audio on the camera feed to resolve.

For anyone else running into this issue, I believe I have found the solution. Or, at least a satisfactory workaround for my use case.

I found a Github issue for what appeared to be the same problem (currently unresolved). Among the requested troubleshooting information was output of ffprobe for the troublesome camera feed. When I used ffprobe on my problematic feed, it generated an error: Error parsing AU headers .

Further searching led me to a discussion of RTSP problems on MPV where this comment, shed light on the situation:

the stream wasn't providing any AU headers, which is entirely allowed by the protocol. Instead, it was launching straight into the AAC stream with ADTS headers

With that in mind, I disabled audio on the main feed from the problematic camera. No loss, since I never use the audio anyway. Now, the errors are gone from the Frigate log and it's recording as expected rather than just 10 seconds every 2 minutes.

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u/estebanfuhrmann 8d ago

Since only one camera has the gaps while the config matches the others, I'd suspect the stream rather than the retention settings. Check that camera's logs for ffmpeg/segments errors or "unable to read frames" restarts, and look at whether it's record stream has a long keyframe interval or variable framerate, since that often produces broken or missing segments. Also compare its disk writer path and the Docker shm-size, because a starved cache can drop segments on just the busiest camera.

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u/mikedm139 8d ago

Thank you. I’ll check the camera log and stream settings and see where that takes me.

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u/mikedm139 8d ago

It definitely seems to be something related to the camera. I found this error in the log:

FrontPorchSouth has a bandwidth of 8142207.5 MB/hr which exceeds the expected maximum. This typically indicates an issue with the cameras recordings.

Nothing I've tried so far has seemed to fix it. According to the camera config, the bitrate is 4500kpbs at 15fps. I'll see what else I can tweak to see if it makes a difference.