Recording and Detection on Streams

[tibmeister]

I'm moving away from ZoneMinder in favor of Frigate, but one thing I am struggling with is the streams. So let me go back to how I had ZM setup for this particular camera, which is a 4k camera.
I created Monitor1 in ZM, that was using the sub-stream at a resolution of 704x480. I created Monitor2 using the main stream at a resolution of 3840x2160.
Monitor1 would always record to disk (24/7) and also performed motion analysis. Monitor2 was linked to Monitor1 and used it as the trigger to record motion events. So, what I got was a lower resolution 24/7 recording stream that I would keep for 72 hours, then a high resolution stream that would only record motion events and I would keep for 14 days.
I am struggling on how to recreate this setup in Frigate.
Currently, I have the camera setup with the two inputs, with the detect role on the low-res and the record role on the high-res, but I also want to record on the low-res. I'm thinking I will need to have a second camera that has the record role and only has the low-res stream. Is this the only way or is there some odd thing that I'm missing that would make this magically work with a single camera config?

[NickM-27]

Yes that's the way it needs to be done for now, there's a pinned feature request to also have the sub stream recorded.

[tibmeister]

For driveway_constant, I don't want to track objects, I just want to dump the video stream to disk for later.
Going to have to look at the driveway record node. Seems there's a lot of repetition in the config. I'm assuming in this case it's pulling down the global default portion and overlaying it onto the camera since I am not specifically overriding the snapshot.

[NickM-27]

For driveway_constant, I don't want to track objects, I just want to dump the video stream to disk for later.

Right, then you will not have any events for that camera

[tibmeister]

Without the events, how would I be able to see the recordings then?
Also, on the other camera, where I am detecting on the low-res feed and recording on the high-res feed, not sure why I'm only getting snapshots and no clips during the events. Seems like it should work like I expect (see below)

driveway:
    enabled: true
    ffmpeg:
      inputs:
        - path: rtsp://192.168.200.15:34291/2241daa352ac2f60 #lowres
          input_args: preset-rtsp-restream
          roles:
            - detect
        - path: rtsp://192.168.200.15:34291/5fa430ba3ac08011 #highres
          roles:
            - record
      output_args:
        record: preset-record-generic
    record:
      enabled: true
      retain:
        days: 14
        mode: motion
      events:
        retain:
          default: 14
          mode: active_objects
        required_zones:
          - driveway_end
    detect:
      width: 704
      height: 480
      stationary:
        interval: 10
        threshold: 30
    objects:
      track:
        - person
        - car
        - dog
        - cat

[NickM-27]

Without the events, how would I be able to see the recordings then?

By using the recordings viewer

Also, on the other camera, where I am detecting on the low-res feed and recording on the high-res feed, not sure why I'm only getting snapshots and no clips during the events. Seems like it should work like I expect (see below)

Most likely because the zone is configured wrong, and the snapshots are not being limited to the zone

[tibmeister]

I am just not seeing the issue. I'm going to tear down to basic and start over.