Configuration File
For Home Assistant Addon installations, the config file needs to be in the root of your Home Assistant config directory (same location as configuration.yaml
) and named frigate.yml
.
For all other installation types, the config file should be mapped to /config/config.yml
inside the container.
It is recommended to start with a minimal configuration and add to it as described in this guide:
mqtt:
host: mqtt.server.com
cameras:
back:
ffmpeg:
inputs:
- path: rtsp://viewer:{FRIGATE_RTSP_PASSWORD}@10.0.10.10:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=2
roles:
- detect
detect:
width: 1280
height: 720
VSCode Configuration Schema
VSCode (and VSCode addon) supports the JSON schemas which will automatically validate the config. This can be added by adding # yaml-language-server: $schema=http://frigate_host:5000/api/config/schema.json
to the top of the config file. frigate_host
being the IP address of Frigate or ccab4aaf-frigate
if running in the addon.
Full configuration reference:
It is not recommended to copy this full configuration file. Only specify values that are different from the defaults. Configuration options and default values may change in future versions.
mqtt:
# Optional: Enable mqtt server (default: shown below)
enabled: True
# Required: host name
host: mqtt.server.com
# Optional: port (default: shown below)
port: 1883
# Optional: topic prefix (default: shown below)
# NOTE: must be unique if you are running multiple instances
topic_prefix: frigate
# Optional: client id (default: shown below)
# NOTE: must be unique if you are running multiple instances
client_id: frigate
# Optional: user
# NOTE: MQTT user can be specified with an environment variables that must begin with 'FRIGATE_'.
# e.g. user: '{FRIGATE_MQTT_USER}'
user: mqtt_user
# Optional: password
# NOTE: MQTT password can be specified with an environment variables that must begin with 'FRIGATE_'.
# e.g. password: '{FRIGATE_MQTT_PASSWORD}'
password: password
# Optional: tls_ca_certs for enabling TLS using self-signed certs (default: None)
tls_ca_certs: /path/to/ca.crt
# Optional: tls_client_cert and tls_client key in order to use self-signed client
# certificates (default: None)
# NOTE: certificate must not be password-protected
# do not set user and password when using a client certificate
tls_client_cert: /path/to/client.crt
tls_client_key: /path/to/client.key
# Optional: tls_insecure (true/false) for enabling TLS verification of
# the server hostname in the server certificate (default: None)
tls_insecure: false
# Optional: interval in seconds for publishing stats (default: shown below)
stats_interval: 60
# Optional: Detectors configuration. Defaults to a single CPU detector
detectors:
# Required: name of the detector
detector_name:
# Required: type of the detector
# Frigate provided types include 'cpu', 'edgetpu', and 'openvino' (default: shown below)
# Additional detector types can also be plugged in.
# Detectors may require additional configuration.
# Refer to the Detectors configuration page for more information.
type: cpu
# Optional: Database configuration
database:
# The path to store the SQLite DB (default: shown below)
path: /media/frigate/frigate.db
# Optional: model modifications
model:
# Optional: path to the model (default: automatic based on detector)
path: /edgetpu_model.tflite
# Optional: path to the labelmap (default: shown below)
labelmap_path: /labelmap.txt
# Required: Object detection model input width (default: shown below)
width: 320
# Required: Object detection model input height (default: shown below)
height: 320
# Optional: Object detection model input colorspace
# Valid values are rgb, bgr, or yuv. (default: shown below)
input_pixel_format: rgb
# Optional: Object detection model input tensor format
# Valid values are nhwc or nchw (default: shown below)
input_tensor: nhwc
# Optional: Object detection model type, currently only used with the OpenVINO detector
# Valid values are ssd, yolox, yolov5, or yolov8 (default: shown below)
model_type: ssd
# Optional: Label name modifications. These are merged into the standard labelmap.
labelmap:
2: vehicle
# Optional: logger verbosity settings
logger:
# Optional: Default log verbosity (default: shown below)
default: info
# Optional: Component specific logger overrides
logs:
frigate.event: debug
# Optional: set environment variables
environment_vars:
EXAMPLE_VAR: value
# Optional: birdseye configuration
# NOTE: Can (enabled, mode) be overridden at the camera level
birdseye:
# Optional: Enable birdseye view (default: shown below)
enabled: True
# Optional: Restream birdseye via RTSP (default: shown below)
# NOTE: Enabling this will set birdseye to run 24/7 which may increase CPU usage somewhat.
restream: False
# Optional: Width of the output resolution (default: shown below)
width: 1280
# Optional: Height of the output resolution (default: shown below)
height: 720
# Optional: Encoding quality of the mpeg1 feed (default: shown below)
# 1 is the highest quality, and 31 is the lowest. Lower quality feeds utilize less CPU resources.
quality: 8
# Optional: Mode of the view. Available options are: objects, motion, and continuous
# objects - cameras are included if they have had a tracked object within the last 30 seconds
# motion - cameras are included if motion was detected in the last 30 seconds
# continuous - all cameras are included always
mode: objects
# Optional: ffmpeg configuration
# More information about presets at https://docs.frigate.video/configuration/ffmpeg_presets
ffmpeg:
# Optional: global ffmpeg args (default: shown below)
global_args: -hide_banner -loglevel warning -threads 1
# Optional: global hwaccel args (default: shown below)
# NOTE: See hardware acceleration docs for your specific device
hwaccel_args: []
# Optional: global input args (default: shown below)
input_args: preset-rtsp-generic
# Optional: global output args
output_args:
# Optional: output args for detect streams (default: shown below)
detect: -threads 1 -f rawvideo -pix_fmt yuv420p
# Optional: output args for record streams (default: shown below)
record: preset-record-generic
# Optional: output args for rtmp streams (default: shown below)
rtmp: preset-rtmp-generic
# Optional: Detect configuration
# NOTE: Can be overridden at the camera level
detect:
# Optional: width of the frame for the input with the detect role (default: shown below)
width: 1280
# Optional: height of the frame for the input with the detect role (default: shown below)
height: 720
# Optional: desired fps for your camera for the input with the detect role (default: shown below)
# NOTE: Recommended value of 5. Ideally, try and reduce your FPS on the camera.
fps: 5
# Optional: enables detection for the camera (default: True)
enabled: True
# Optional: Number of frames without a detection before Frigate considers an object to be gone. (default: 5x the frame rate)
max_disappeared: 25
# Optional: Configuration for stationary object tracking
stationary:
# Optional: Frequency for confirming stationary objects (default: shown below)
# When set to 0, object detection will not confirm stationary objects until movement is detected.
# If set to 10, object detection will run to confirm the object still exists on every 10th frame.
interval: 0
# Optional: Number of frames without a position change for an object to be considered stationary (default: 10x the frame rate or 10s)
threshold: 50
# Optional: Define a maximum number of frames for tracking a stationary object (default: not set, track forever)
# This can help with false positives for objects that should only be stationary for a limited amount of time.
# It can also be used to disable stationary object tracking. For example, you may want to set a value for person, but leave
# car at the default.
# WARNING: Setting these values overrides default behavior and disables stationary object tracking.
# There are very few situations where you would want it disabled. It is NOT recommended to
# copy these values from the example config into your config unless you know they are needed.
max_frames:
# Optional: Default for all object types (default: not set, track forever)
default: 3000
# Optional: Object specific values
objects:
person: 1000
# Optional: Object configuration
# NOTE: Can be overridden at the camera level
objects:
# Optional: list of objects to track from labelmap.txt (default: shown below)
track:
- person
# Optional: mask to prevent all object types from being detected in certain areas (default: no mask)
# Checks based on the bottom center of the bounding box of the object.
# NOTE: This mask is COMBINED with the object type specific mask below
mask: 0,0,1000,0,1000,200,0,200
# Optional: filters to reduce false positives for specific object types
filters:
person:
# Optional: minimum width*height of the bounding box for the detected object (default: 0)
min_area: 5000
# Optional: maximum width*height of the bounding box for the detected object (default: 24000000)
max_area: 100000
# Optional: minimum width/height of the bounding box for the detected object (default: 0)
min_ratio: 0.5
# Optional: maximum width/height of the bounding box for the detected object (default: 24000000)
max_ratio: 2.0
# Optional: minimum score for the object to initiate tracking (default: shown below)
min_score: 0.5
# Optional: minimum decimal percentage for tracked object's computed score to be considered a true positive (default: shown below)
threshold: 0.7
# Optional: mask to prevent this object type from being detected in certain areas (default: no mask)
# Checks based on the bottom center of the bounding box of the object
mask: 0,0,1000,0,1000,200,0,200
# Optional: Motion configuration
# NOTE: Can be overridden at the camera level
motion:
# Optional: The threshold passed to cv2.threshold to determine if a pixel is different enough to be counted as motion. (default: shown below)
# Increasing this value will make motion detection less sensitive and decreasing it will make motion detection more sensitive.
# The value should be between 1 and 255.
threshold: 25
# Optional: Minimum size in pixels in the resized motion image that counts as motion (default: 30)
# Increasing this value will prevent smaller areas of motion from being detected. Decreasing will
# make motion detection more sensitive to smaller moving objects.
# As a rule of thumb:
# - 15 - high sensitivity
# - 30 - medium sensitivity
# - 50 - low sensitivity
contour_area: 30
# Optional: Alpha value passed to cv2.accumulateWeighted when averaging the motion delta across multiple frames (default: shown below)
# Higher values mean the current frame impacts the delta a lot, and a single raindrop may register as motion.
# Too low and a fast moving person wont be detected as motion.
delta_alpha: 0.2
# Optional: Alpha value passed to cv2.accumulateWeighted when averaging frames to determine the background (default: shown below)
# Higher values mean the current frame impacts the average a lot, and a new object will be averaged into the background faster.
# Low values will cause things like moving shadows to be detected as motion for longer.
# https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/background-subtraction-in-an-image-using-concept-of-running-average/
frame_alpha: 0.2
# Optional: Height of the resized motion frame (default: 50)
# This operates as an efficient blur alternative. Higher values will result in more granular motion detection at the expense
# of higher CPU usage. Lower values result in less CPU, but small changes may not register as motion.
frame_height: 50
# Optional: motion mask
# NOTE: see docs for more detailed info on creating masks
mask: 0,900,1080,900,1080,1920,0,1920
# Optional: improve contrast (default: shown below)
# Enables dynamic contrast improvement. This should help improve night detections at the cost of making motion detection more sensitive
# for daytime.
improve_contrast: False
# Optional: Delay when updating camera motion through MQTT from ON -> OFF (default: shown below).
mqtt_off_delay: 30
# Optional: Record configuration
# NOTE: Can be overridden at the camera level
record:
# Optional: Enable recording (default: shown below)
# WARNING: If recording is disabled in the config, turning it on via
# the UI or MQTT later will have no effect.
enabled: False
# Optional: Number of minutes to wait between cleanup runs (default: shown below)
# This can be used to reduce the frequency of deleting recording segments from disk if you want to minimize i/o
expire_interval: 60
# Optional: Retention settings for recording
retain:
# Optional: Number of days to retain recordings regardless of events (default: shown below)
# NOTE: This should be set to 0 and retention should be defined in events section below
# if you only want to retain recordings of events.
days: 0
# Optional: Mode for retention. Available options are: all, motion, and active_objects
# all - save all recording segments regardless of activity
# motion - save all recordings segments with any detected motion
# active_objects - save all recording segments with active/moving objects
# NOTE: this mode only applies when the days setting above is greater than 0
mode: all
# Optional: Event recording settings
events:
# Optional: Number of seconds before the event to include (default: shown below)
pre_capture: 5
# Optional: Number of seconds after the event to include (default: shown below)
post_capture: 5
# Optional: Objects to save recordings for. (default: all tracked objects)
objects:
- person
# Optional: Restrict recordings to objects that entered any of the listed zones (default: no required zones)
required_zones: []
# Optional: Retention settings for recordings of events
retain:
# Required: Default retention days (default: shown below)
default: 10
# Optional: Mode for retention. (default: shown below)
# all - save all recording segments for events regardless of activity
# motion - save all recordings segments for events with any detected motion
# active_objects - save all recording segments for event with active/moving objects
#
# NOTE: If the retain mode for the camera is more restrictive than the mode configured
# here, the segments will already be gone by the time this mode is applied.
# For example, if the camera retain mode is "motion", the segments without motion are
# never stored, so setting the mode to "all" here won't bring them back.
mode: motion
# Optional: Per object retention days
objects:
person: 15
# Optional: Configuration for the jpg snapshots written to the clips directory for each event
# NOTE: Can be overridden at the camera level
snapshots:
# Optional: Enable writing jpg snapshot to /media/frigate/clips (default: shown below)
enabled: False
# Optional: save a clean PNG copy of the snapshot image (default: shown below)
clean_copy: True
# Optional: print a timestamp on the snapshots (default: shown below)
timestamp: False
# Optional: draw bounding box on the snapshots (default: shown below)
bounding_box: False
# Optional: crop the snapshot (default: shown below)
crop: False
# Optional: height to resize the snapshot to (default: original size)
height: 175
# Optional: Restrict snapshots to objects that entered any of the listed zones (default: no required zones)
required_zones: []
# Optional: Camera override for retention settings (default: global values)
retain:
# Required: Default retention days (default: shown below)
default: 10
# Optional: Per object retention days
objects:
person: 15
# Optional: RTMP configuration
# NOTE: RTMP is deprecated in favor of restream
# NOTE: Can be overridden at the camera level
rtmp:
# Optional: Enable the RTMP stream (default: False)
enabled: False
# Optional: Restream configuration
# Uses https://github.com/AlexxIT/go2rtc (v1.2.0)
go2rtc:
# Optional: jsmpeg stream configuration for WebUI
live:
# Optional: Set the name of the stream that should be used for live view
# in frigate WebUI. (default: name of camera)
stream_name: camera_name
# Optional: Set the height of the jsmpeg stream. (default: 720)
# This must be less than or equal to the height of the detect stream. Lower resolutions
# reduce bandwidth required for viewing the jsmpeg stream. Width is computed to match known aspect ratio.
height: 720
# Optional: Set the encode quality of the jsmpeg stream (default: shown below)
# 1 is the highest quality, and 31 is the lowest. Lower quality feeds utilize less CPU resources.
quality: 8
# Optional: in-feed timestamp style configuration
# NOTE: Can be overridden at the camera level
timestamp_style:
# Optional: Position of the timestamp (default: shown below)
# "tl" (top left), "tr" (top right), "bl" (bottom left), "br" (bottom right)
position: "tl"
# Optional: Format specifier conform to the Python package "datetime" (default: shown below)
# Additional Examples:
# german: "%d.%m.%Y %H:%M:%S"
format: "%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S"
# Optional: Color of font
color:
# All Required when color is specified (default: shown below)
red: 255
green: 255
blue: 255
# Optional: Line thickness of font (default: shown below)
thickness: 2
# Optional: Effect of lettering (default: shown below)
# None (No effect),
# "solid" (solid background in inverse color of font)
# "shadow" (shadow for font)
effect: None
# Required
cameras:
# Required: name of the camera
back:
# Optional: Enable/Disable the camera (default: shown below).
# If disabled: config is used but no live stream and no capture etc.
# Events/Recordings are still viewable.
enabled: True
# Required: ffmpeg settings for the camera
ffmpeg:
# Required: A list of input streams for the camera. See documentation for more information.
inputs:
# Required: the path to the stream
# NOTE: path may include environment variables, which must begin with 'FRIGATE_' and be referenced in {}
- path: rtsp://viewer:{FRIGATE_RTSP_PASSWORD}@10.0.10.10:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=2
# Required: list of roles for this stream. valid values are: detect,record,rtmp
# NOTICE: In addition to assigning the record and rtmp roles,
# they must also be enabled in the camera config.
roles:
- detect
- record
- rtmp
# Optional: stream specific global args (default: inherit)
# global_args:
# Optional: stream specific hwaccel args (default: inherit)
# hwaccel_args:
# Optional: stream specific input args (default: inherit)
# input_args:
# Optional: camera specific global args (default: inherit)
# global_args:
# Optional: camera specific hwaccel args (default: inherit)
# hwaccel_args:
# Optional: camera specific input args (default: inherit)
# input_args:
# Optional: camera specific output args (default: inherit)
# output_args:
# Optional: timeout for highest scoring image before allowing it
# to be replaced by a newer image. (default: shown below)
best_image_timeout: 60
# Optional: zones for this camera
zones:
# Required: name of the zone
# NOTE: This must be different than any camera names, but can match with another zone on another
# camera.
front_steps:
# Required: List of x,y coordinates to define the polygon of the zone.
# NOTE: Presence in a zone is evaluated only based on the bottom center of the objects bounding box.
coordinates: 545,1077,747,939,788,805
# Optional: List of objects that can trigger this zone (default: all tracked objects)
objects:
- person
# Optional: Zone level object filters.
# NOTE: The global and camera filters are applied upstream.
filters:
person:
min_area: 5000
max_area: 100000
threshold: 0.7
# Optional: Configuration for the jpg snapshots published via MQTT
mqtt:
# Optional: Enable publishing snapshot via mqtt for camera (default: shown below)
# NOTE: Only applies to publishing image data to MQTT via 'frigate/<camera_name>/<object_name>/snapshot'.
# All other messages will still be published.
enabled: True
# Optional: print a timestamp on the snapshots (default: shown below)
timestamp: True
# Optional: draw bounding box on the snapshots (default: shown below)
bounding_box: True
# Optional: crop the snapshot (default: shown below)
crop: True
# Optional: height to resize the snapshot to (default: shown below)
height: 270
# Optional: jpeg encode quality (default: shown below)
quality: 70
# Optional: Restrict mqtt messages to objects that entered any of the listed zones (default: no required zones)
required_zones: []
# Optional: Configuration for how camera is handled in the GUI.
ui:
# Optional: Adjust sort order of cameras in the UI. Larger numbers come later (default: shown below)
# By default the cameras are sorted alphabetically.
order: 0
# Optional: Whether or not to show the camera in the Frigate UI (default: shown below)
dashboard: True
# Optional
ui:
# Optional: Set the default live mode for cameras in the UI (default: shown below)
live_mode: mse
# Optional: Set a timezone to use in the UI (default: use browser local time)
timezone: None
# Optional: Use an experimental recordings / camera view UI (default: shown below)
experimental_ui: False
# Optional: Telemetry configuration
telemetry:
# Optional: Enable the latest version outbound check (default: shown below)
# NOTE: If you use the HomeAssistant integration, disabling this will prevent it from reporting new versions
version_check: True