Camera Configuration

Setting Up Camera Inputs

Several inputs can be configured for each camera and the role of each input can be mixed and matched based on your needs. This allows you to use a lower resolution stream for object detection, but create recordings from a higher resolution stream, or vice versa.

A camera is enabled by default but can be temporarily disabled by using enabled: False. Existing events and recordings can still be accessed. Live streams, recording and detecting are not working. Camera specific configurations will be used.

Each role can only be assigned to one input per camera. The options for roles are as follows:

Role	Description
detect	Main feed for object detection
record	Saves segments of the video feed based on configuration settings. docs
rtmp	Deprecated: Broadcast as an RTMP feed for other services to consume. docs

mqtt:
  host: mqtt.server.com
cameras:
  back:
    enabled: True
    ffmpeg:
      inputs:
        - path: rtsp://viewer:{FRIGATE_RTSP_PASSWORD}@10.0.10.10:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=2
          roles:
            - detect
            - rtmp # <- deprecated, recommend using restream instead
        - path: rtsp://viewer:{FRIGATE_RTSP_PASSWORD}@10.0.10.10:554/live
          roles:
            - record
    detect:
      width: 1280 # <- optional, by default Frigate tries to automatically detect resolution
      height: 720 # <- optional, by default Frigate tries to automatically detect resolution

Additional cameras are simply added to the config under the cameras entry.

mqtt: ...
cameras:
  back: ...
  front: ...
  side: ...

For camera model specific settings check the camera specific infos.

Setting up camera PTZ controls

Add onvif config to camera

cameras:
  back:
    ffmpeg:
      ...
    onvif:
      host: 10.0.10.10
      port: 8000
      user: admin
      password: password

then PTZ controls will be available in the cameras WebUI.

An ONVIF-capable camera that supports relative movement within the field of view (FOV) can also be configured to automatically track moving objects and keep them in the center of the frame. For autotracking setup, see the autotracking docs.