Person detection works, face recognition enabled - no mqtt message ?

[Tokn59]

With person detection working and face detection instaled and working should I not get an MQTT message like /frigate/camerax/person/michael (michael = a person for which faces have been uploaded) ?

[inkeep-ai-assistant[bot]]

When person detection and face recognition are both enabled in Frigate, MQTT messages about detected persons and recognized faces are published, but not in the topic format /frigate/camerax/person/michael. Instead, Frigate uses structured JSON messages on topics such as frigate/events, frigate/tracked_object_update, and frigate/reviews(1).

For face recognition, when a face is recognized, a message like this is sent to the frigate/tracked_object_update topic:

{  
 "type": "face",  
 "id": "1607123955.475377-mxklsc",  
 "name": "John",  
 "score": 0.95,  
 "camera": "front_door_cam",  
 "timestamp": 1607123958.748393  
}

(1)

There is no MQTT topic created per individual person's name (like /frigate/camerax/person/michael). Instead, you should listen to the frigate/tracked_object_update topic for messages with "type": "face" and parse the name field to know which person was recognized(1).

📚 Sources:

1. MQTT

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[Tokn59]

Thank you for this clarification !