[Config Support]: Not recording motion

[markuswells]

Describe the problem you are having

I have been fighting with frigate for about a month now, with all my research, I have overcome several issues (I think).
I have it setup to capture audio and that triggers a detection and I think it all works fine, but using the same camera I DO NOT get motion. When I click "Review" in the UI I see "Alerts-0, Detections-5, motion" when I go to the motion it shows the timeline and in the timeline it shows activity, but "Explore" only worked 1 day (no idea whats changed).

Is anyone willing to look at this config and see what I did wrong?

Version

0.16.3-9034454

Frigate config file

mqtt:
  enabled: true
  host: ###.###.###.###  # IP address of your MQTT broker
  port: 1883                # Default MQTT port
  topic_prefix: frigate
#  user: MQTT_USERNAME     # Your MQTT username
#  password: MQTT_PASSWORD  # Your MQTT password

ffmpeg:
  hwaccel_args: preset-vaapi
  input_args: preset-rtsp-generic

detectors:
  ov:
    type: openvino
    device: GPU

model:
  width: 300
  height: 300
  input_tensor: nhwc
  input_pixel_format: bgr
  path: /openvino-model/ssdlite_mobilenet_v2.xml
  labelmap_path: /openvino-model/coco_91cl_bkgr.txt

motion:
  enabled: true

record:
  enabled: true
  retain:
    days: 7
    mode: motion
  detections:
    # Optional: Number of seconds before the detection to include (default: shown below)
    pre_capture: 5
    # Optional: Number of seconds after the detection to include (default: shown below)
    post_capture: 5
    # Optional: Retention settings for recordings of detections
    retain:
      # Required: Retention days (default: shown below)
      days: 1
      mode: motion

audio:
  enabled: true
  # Optional: Configure the amount of seconds without detected audio to end the event (default: shown below)
  max_not_heard: 30
  # Optional: Configure the min rms volume required to run audio detection (default: shown below)
  # As a rule of thumb:
  #  - 200 - high sensitivity
  #  - 500 - medium sensitivity
  #  - 1000 - low sensitivity
  min_volume: 500
  # Optional: Types of audio to listen for (default: shown below)
  listen:
    - bark
    - fire_alarm
    - scream
    - speech
    - yell
  # Optional: Filters to configure detection.
  filters:
    # Label that matches label in listen config.
    speech:
      # Minimum score that triggers an audio event (default: shown below)
      threshold: 0.8

cameras:
  front_door:  # Name your camera
    enabled: true
    ffmpeg:
      inputs:
        - path: rtsp://#####:xxxxxx@###.###.###.###:554/Preview_01_main
          roles:
            - record
        - path: rtsp://#####:xxxxxx@XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:554/Preview_01_sub
          roles:
            - audio
            - detect
    detect:
      enabled: true  # Start with detection OFF
      width: 640
      height: 480
      fps: 10 
    record:
      enabled: true
      retain:
        days: 1 
        mode: motion
      alerts:
        retain:
          days: 3
          mode: motion
      detections:
        retain:
          days: 3
          mode: motion
    snapshots:
      enabled: true
      bounding_box: true
      retain:
        default: 3
    motion:
      mask: 0.323,0.02,0.322,0.049,0.654,0.052,0.655,0.022
version: 0.16-0

Relevant Frigate log output

Today I do not have any logs reporting anything of value, I had been fighting ffmpeg for a few days

Relevant go2rtc log output

n/a

Frigate stats

No response

Operating system

Other Linux

Install method

Docker Compose

docker-compose file or Docker CLI command

services:
  frigate:
    image: ghcr.io/blakeblackshear/frigate:stable
    container_name: frigate
    environment:
      - 'TZ=America/New_York'
      - LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=i965
    privileged: true
    restart: unless-stopped
    shm_size: "128mb"
    volumes:
      - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
      - ./conf:/config
      - ./data:/media/frigate
      - type: tmpfs
        target: /tmp/cache
        tmpfs:
          size: 1000000000
    ports:
      - "5000:5000"      # Web UI
      - "8554:8554"      # RTSP feeds
      - "8555:8555/tcp"  # WebRTC
      - "8555:8555/udp"  # WebRTC
#    environment:
#      - FRIGATE_RTSP_PASSWORD=YourSecurePassword

Object Detector

CPU (no coral)

Screenshots of the Frigate UI's System metrics pages

No response

Any other information that may be helpful

No response

[inkeep-ai-assistant[bot]]

Looking at your configuration, I can identify several issues that are likely causing your motion recording problems:

Primary Issues

1. Incorrect record.detections placement

You have record.detections configured at the global level, but this section doesn't belong there.(1) The detections configuration should be nested under review (for review item retention), not under record.(1)

2. Invalid camera-level record structure

In your camera configuration, you have:

record:
  enabled: true
  retain:
    days: 1 
    mode: motion
  alerts:
    retain:
      days: 3
      mode: motion
  detections:
    retain:
      days: 3
      mode: motion

The alerts and detections sections don't belong under record.(1) These belong under the review section.(1)

3. Motion mask syntax

Your motion mask appears to have only 4 coordinate pairs when masks should define complete polygons.(2)(1)

Recommended Configuration Changes

Remove the incorrect global record.detections section and restructure your camera config:

cameras:
  front_door:
    enabled: true
    ffmpeg:
      inputs:
        - path: rtsp://#####:xxxxxx@###.###.###.###:554/Preview_01_main
          roles:
            - record
        - path: rtsp://#####:xxxxxx@XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:554/Preview_01_sub
          roles:
            - audio
            - detect
    detect:
      enabled: true
      width: 640
      height: 480
      fps: 10
    record:
      enabled: true
      retain:
        days: 7
        mode: motion
    review:
      alerts:
        enabled: true
      detections:
        enabled: true
    snapshots:
      enabled: true
      bounding_box: true
      retain:
        default: 3
    motion:
      enabled: true

The global record section should look like:

record:
  enabled: true
  retain:
    days: 7
    mode: motion

With mode: motion, recordings will be retained when motion is detected.(1) Since motion detection is required for object detection, ensure motion.enabled is not set to False.(1)

**

📚 Sources:

1. Full Reference Config
2. Camera Configuration

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[hawkeye217]

The AI is hallucinating slightly here. There's nothing technically wrong with your config.

There may be some confusion as to what you should see. The Motion Review screen will not display multiple video clips like Alerts or Detections. It displays each of your cameras individually and the timeline will allow you to drag the handlebar to quickly scrub through the camera footage to see where motion was detected. A yellow ring around the camera will indicate that motion was detected at the time indicated by the handlebar on the timeline.

[markuswells]

I was hoping Ai was off. Yes there was confusion, but at some point that motion needs to translate to an alert or mqtt notification and am I wrong it should put something in the "Explore" section, right? It tracks Speech and Bark, but those are all audio. What should happen in "Explore" for a motion? is that only if a FULL person is recognized? I dont think I have that setup yet.
I would like to have a motion record and person/umbrella send a notice

[hawkeye217]

Explore is designed to show individually tracked objects. If an object is not detected, it will not appear in Explore.

To understand more of how Frigate works with motion detection and object detection, check out these sections of the official docs:

https://docs.frigate.video/frigate/video_pipeline
https://docs.frigate.video/configuration/masks/#further-clarification