Setup Frigate NVR

Posted on October 2, 2012

Tags: hackhard

Summary:

create frigate config file ~/.config/frigate/frigate.yml
- configure addr of MQTT server
- configure addr of RTSP camera
create frigate Video folder
- This is location of recordings
create a MQTT config file (New version makes MQTT optional)
create a docker compose for both frigate and MQTT
- cd to this folder to startup frigate

1 Frigate Config file

cd ~
cd .config #if not exists, mkdir .config
mkdir frigate
cd frigate
touch frigate.yml

#mqtt:
#  host: 192.168.1.245
#  port: 1883
mqtt:
  enabled: False
ffmpeg:
  hwaccel_args: preset-vaapi 
# above is for intel, comment out if necessary

record:
  events:
    retain: 
      default: 25
timestamp_style:
  position: "tr"
  format: "%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S"
  thickness: 3
  effect: "solid"
snapshots:
  timestamp: True
cameras:
  camera_1: # <------ Name the camera
    ffmpeg:
      inputs:
        #- path: rtsp://admin:admin@192.168.1.132:554/11 # <----- Update for your camera
        - path: rtsp://admin:admin@192.168.1.132/11/h264major
          roles:
            - detect
            - rtmp
    rtmp:
      enabled: False # <-- RTMP should be disabled if your stream is not H264
    detect:
      width: 1920 # <---- update for your camera's resolution
      height: 1080 # <---- update for your camera's resolution
      fps: 8
    objects:
      track:
        - person
        - cat
      filters:
        person:
          threshold: 0.7
    record: 
      enabled: True
    snapshots:
      enabled: True
    mqtt:
      timestamp: True
#-------------------------------------------------
  camera_2: # <------ Name the camera
    ffmpeg:
      inputs:
        - path: rtsp://admin:admin@192.168.1.126:554/live/ch0 # <----- Update for your camera
          roles:
            - detect
            - rtmp
    rtmp:
      enabled: False # <-- RTMP should be disabled if your stream is not H264
    detect:
      width: 1920 # <---- update for your camera's resolution
      height: 1080 # <---- update for your camera's resolution
      fps: 8
    record: 
      enabled: True
    snapshots:
      enabled: True
    mqtt:
      timestamp: True
#-------------------------------------------------
  camera_3: # <------ Name the camera
    ffmpeg:
      inputs:
        - path: rtsp://admin:admin@192.168.1.127:554/live/ch0 # <----- Update for your camera
          roles:
            - detect
            - rtmp
    rtmp:
      enabled: False # <-- RTMP should be disabled if your stream is not H264
    detect:
      width: 1920 # <---- update for your camera's resolution
      height: 1080 # <---- update for your camera's resolution
      fps: 8
    record: 
      enabled: True
    snapshots:
      enabled: True
    mqtt:
      timestamp: True

1.1 Optional - ESP32

The input_args is neccessary or it wont run. disabling hwaccel or it will have a half green screen bug.

  camera_4:
    ffmpeg:
      hwaccel_args: " "
      input_args: -avoid_negative_ts make_zero -fflags nobuffer -flags low_delay -strict experimental -fflags +genpts+discardcorrupt -use_wallclock_as_timestamps 1 -c:v mjpeg
      inputs:
        - path: http://192.168.22.11:81/stream
          roles:
            - detect
            - rtmp
    rtmp:
      enabled: False

2 Create frigate Video folder

cd ~
cd Videos
mkdir frigateMedia

3 create a MQTT config file (Now Optional)

new frigate version makes MQTT optional

cd ~
cd .config
mkdir mosquitto
cd mosquitto
mkdir config
touch mosquitto.conf

persistence false
log_dest stdout
allow_anonymous true
connection_messages true
listener 1883 0.0.0.0

4 docker-compose

cd ~
mkdir frigate
cd frigate
touch docker-compose.yml

version: "3.9"
services:
  frigate:
    container_name: frigate
    privileged: true # this may not be necessary for all setups
    image: "ghcr.io/blakeblackshear/frigate:stable"
    shm_size: "999mb" # update for your cameras based on calculation above
    devices:
      - /dev/dri/renderD128 #for intel hwaccel 
    volumes:
      - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
      - /home/ubuntu/.config/frigate/config.yml:/config/config.yml:ro
      - /home/ubuntu/Videos/frigateMedia:/media/frigate
      - type: tmpfs # Optional: 1GB of memory, reduces SSD/SD Card wear
        target: /tmp/cache
        tmpfs:
          size: 1000000000
    ports:
      - "5000:5000"
    environment:
      FRIGATE_RTSP_PASSWORD: "password"
    restart: always

docker-compose build 
docker-compose up

5 Misc

ONVIF url
http://192.168.1.132:8080

1920x1080
rtsp://admin:admin@192.168.1.132:554/11

640x352
rtsp://admin:admin@192.168.1.132:554/12

http://192.168.1.127:8899

http://192.168.1.126:8899
rtsp://admin:admin@192.168.1.126:554/live/ch0
rtsp://admin:admin@192.168.1.126:554/live/ch1

http://192.168.1.127:8899
rtsp://admin:admin@192.168.1.127:554/live/ch0
rtsp://admin:admin@192.168.1.127:554/live/ch1

5.1 Troubleshooting

if it doesnt work try turning off hardware acceleration by commenting out

- /dev/dri/renderD128 #for intel hwaccel in docker-compose.yml
hwaccel_args: preset-vaapi in ~/.config/frigate/config.yml

6 Frigate configs that uses Webcam

The difference is we add Mediamtx container to out docker-compose

version: "3.9"
services:
  Mediamtx:
    container_name: rtsp-simple-server
    privileged: true
    image: aler9/rtsp-simple-server
    network_mode: "host"
    ports:
      - 8554:8554
    restart: always 
  frigate:
    container_name: frigate
    privileged: true # this may not be necessary for all setups
    image: "ghcr.io/blakeblackshear/frigate:stable"
    shm_size: "999mb" # update for your cameras based on calculation above
    devices:
      - /dev/dri/renderD128 #for intel hwaccel 
    volumes:
      - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
      - /home/ubuntu/.config/frigate/config.yml:/config/config.yml:ro
      - /home/ubuntu/Videos/frigateMedia:/media/frigate
      - type: tmpfs # Optional: 1GB of memory, reduces SSD/SD Card wear
        target: /tmp/cache
        tmpfs:
          size: 1000000000
    ports:
      - "5000:5000"
    depends_on:
      - "Mediamtx"
    environment:
      FRIGATE_RTSP_PASSWORD: "password"
    restart: always

sudo ffmpeg -f v4l2 -framerate 25 -video_size 1280x1024 -i /dev/video0 -f rtsp -rtsp_transport udp rtsp://192.168.1.226:8554/mystream

mediamtx starts a rtsp server from docker-compose
ffmpeg bash command will push video stream to that mediamtx server
mediamtx server will broadcast the stream so that frigate can use it

list the systemctl service ls /etc/systemd/system/
make a systemctl service for ffmpeg bash command touch /etc/systemd/system/myservice.service
In our case our script to run the bash command is called camcron

[Unit]
Description=Example systemd service.
StartLimitIntervalSec=500
StartLimitBurst=5

[Service]
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5s
Type=simple
ExecStart=/bin/bash /home/ubuntu/camcron

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

systemctl daemon-reload command
systemctl enable myservice
systemctl start myservice