possibility of google drive/dropbox integration?

[Gahrlaag]

So I was wondering about the possibility to connect frigate to google drive to do an automatic upload of snaps and/or clips as they're recorded. The reasoning is that as some of us are using frigate as an NVR in a home security setup, and storing the clips on, for example a nas, the risk of an intruder actually taking the video/snaps with them is possible. Having it available in drive eliminates the risk of loosing the data.

[NickM-27]

Google drive, Dropbox, and others can be mounted as a volume and used as a volume in frigate or have rsync mirror it from a local volume (most likely the recommended approach)

https://www.google.com/amp/s/ubunlog.com/en/how-to-mount-dropbox-folder-as-virtual-filesystem/amp/

[Gahrlaag]

I guess it could work but it would be a lot easier (and better imho) to just have it working like googe drive backup for home assistant.

[NickM-27]

The google drive backup addon should already support this if frigate is also run as an addon

[Gahrlaag]

yeah but what I'm after is basically that frigate stores the snapshots or clips in parallel into google drive. Google drive does indeed support the backup of my entire ha instance, but if someone broke into the house the files wouldn't have been uploaded before the sync occurs. I'm talking on the fly sync, as soon as a new snap is captured

[subpardaemon]

just chiming in: i also have this concern. i'm converting from agent dvr, and frigate is eons better in reducing false positives, but this functionality is achingly absent.

i was thinking of using MQTT events, and writing a custom app that uses rclone or something to quickly sync up a recording. however, frigate does not exactly have an MQTT event that tells us when a snapshot or a recording was made. how could this be solved?

[NickM-27]

Snapshots are not saved to disc until the event ends recordings are gradually but with a ~ 10 second latency

[subpardaemon]

so frigate/<camera_name>/<object_name>/snapshot is not concurrent with a snapshot file being written to disk? are they synchronous to end events then?

and according to what you say, the final sync should happen cca 15 seconds after the last event is ended so that everything would be flushed out by then?

makes one wonder if a frigate/flush or frigate/write event with the file path in it would be worth emitting through mqtt?

[NickM-27]

There's already a feature request for an mqtt message when frigate finished writing recordings.

/frigate/camera/object/snapshot has nothing to do with a snapshot being written to disk

[subpardaemon]

ok, so in theory when that feature is implemented i can rely on that -- in the meantime i'll go with the new/update/end events. i'll post the link for the watcher program once i'm done. thanks for the help!

[ministryofsillywalks]

• people break in, take the recorder, so nothing gets synced?

i was thinking, instead of waiting for the end:

• i would have an internal table of frigate events that are ongoing, tracked by the id ("new" and "update" create or keep them as active, "end" would remove them)

did you ever finish this? I am in the same boat and would love to backup clips to the cloud.

[GitittomeNow]

I’ve been doing a lot of research on this. The best solution I found is for a Home Assistant to send the images and videos to Telegram for a real time offsite back up. Everything else requires some kind of sync based on a certain time, at least that I found.

[justinbyoung]

I think I found a roundabout way of using rclone via Home Assistant. It uses the downloader integration on Home Assistant. The download folder is a mounted samba share hosted on my Frigate VM. The frigate subfolder in the share is a google drive folder mounted using rclone mount.

I wasn't able to use rclone how I wanted directly on the Home Assistant VM, which is why I send the files back to the Frigate VM as I can use rclone mount there and both are hosted on the same machine.

I adapted the notification script to also download the thumbnail and clip to the rclone folder.

I haven't really tested this much yet but it seems to work.

Here is the HA script I am currently using.

alias: Frigate - Upload Test
description: ""
trigger:
  - platform: mqtt
    topic: frigate/events
condition:
  - condition: and
    conditions:
      - condition: template
        value_template: "{{ trigger.payload_json['after']['label'] == 'person' }}"
      - condition: template
        value_template: "{{ trigger.payload_json['after']['camera'] == 'backyard' }}"
action:
  - service: notify.mobile_device
    data_template:
      message: A {{trigger.payload_json["after"]["label"]}} was detected on backyard.
      data:
        image: >-
          https://home_assistat_address/api/frigate/notifications/{{trigger.payload_json["after"]["id"]}}/thumbnail.jpg?format=android
        tag: "{{trigger.payload_json[\"after\"][\"id\"]}}"
        when: "{{trigger.payload_json[\"after\"][\"start_time\"]|int}}"
  - service: downloader.download_file
    data:
      url: >-
        https://home_assistat_address/api/frigate/notifications/{{trigger.payload_json["after"]["id"]}}/thumbnail.jpg
      subdir: frigate
      filename: "{{ now().strftime(\"%d-%m-%Y-%H.%M.%S\") }}.jpg"
  - service: downloader.download_file
    data:
      url: >-
        http://frigate_address:5000/api/events/{{trigger.payload_json["after"]["id"]}}/clip.mp4
      subdir: frigate
      filename: "{{ now().strftime(\"%d-%m-%Y-%H.%M.%S\") }}.mp4"
mode: single

[justinbyoung]

I use this function of rclone to mount the google drive folder to the frigate folder https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_mount/

[EM-Tom]

Interested in peoples takes on this, I save all clips and snapshots to a volume mounted on the docker host passed through to the Frigate container, that volume is a share on my QNAP NAS - I then run the native QNAP backup tooling to push new content up to Backblaze b2 every few minutes, I then have seperate retention rules on that storage.

I also have SD cards in all the cameras for what it's worth.

Slightly different but I have also just started looking at the Twilio addon to call me should certain events occur at certain times, on top of the more ubiquitous HA app messages.

[GitittomeNow]

justinbyoung@ and EM-Tom@

I too am very interested in opinions are best practices.

For both of your examples, it seems like there could be a considerable delay before images and video are offsite. My mindset is, God forbid, someone robs my stuff it'll probably happen quickly. I want something that would capture them coming and have the evidence be offsite in seconds to minutes.

Here's the script I use. I have it send the image first, so I get something right away, and then the video second.

I just started working with this automation and need to work on my conditions. E.g. only run at night (current), only run went away from home, and exclude my noisy walkway camera, unless a more interesting camera trips.

alias: FrigateTelegram
description: ""
trigger:

• platform: mqtt
  topic: frigate/events
  payload: new
  value_template: "{{ value_json.type }}"
  enabled: true
  condition:
• condition: sun
  before: sunrise
  after: sunset
  after_offset: "07:00:00"
  enabled: true
  action:
• delay:
  hours: 0
  minutes: 0
  seconds: 4
  milliseconds: 0
• service: notify.telegram_ redacted
  data:
  message: MSG
  title: Tittle
  data:
  photo:
  - url: >-
  http://redacted:8123/api/frigate/notifications/{{trigger.payload_json["after"]["id"]}}/snapshot.jpg?box=1
  caption: >-
  A {{trigger.payload_json["after"]["label"]}} was detected by
  {{trigger.payload_json["after"]["camera"]}} camera.
  alias: Call 'Notifications' Service Send Latest Image with 'telegram_ redacted'
  enabled: true
• delay:
  hours: 0
  minutes: 0
  seconds: 15
  milliseconds: 0
  enabled: true
• alias: Call 'Notifications' Service Send Latest Video Clip with 'telegram_ redacted'
  service: notify.telegram_ redacted
  data:
  message: MSG
  title: Tittle
  data:
  video:
  - url: >-
  http://redacted:8123/api/frigate/notifications/{{trigger.payload_json["after"]["id"]}}/{{trigger.payload_json["after"]["camera"]}}/clip.mp4
  caption: >-
  A {{trigger.payload_json["after"]["label"]}} was detected by
  {{trigger.payload_json["after"]["camera"]}} camera.
  timeout: 600
  enabled: true
• service: notify.telegram_ redacted
  data:
  message: "Frigate Payload: {{ trigger.payload_json | to_json }}"
  title: Tittle
  alias: Send debug json (only as needed) to 'telegram_ redacted'
  enabled: false
  mode: single

[kankadev]

Any updates on this? I also want to have the clips offsite very quickly. I used ZoneMinder before and programmed a plugin for it which worked fine. Now I use Frigate and it seems to be more complex to write a similar extension for this reason. Does anybody have an extension ready to use so far? Thanks.

[kankadev]

I wrote something with Python and it seems to work for me. https://github.com/kankadev/frigate-gdrive-uploader
Or use this version with MQTT: https://github.com/kankadev/frigate-gdrive-instant-uploader