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<linkrel="search"type="application/opensearchdescription+xml"title="Frigate"href="/frigate/opensearch.xml"><titledata-react-helmet="true">Cameras | Frigate</title><metadata-react-helmet="true"name="twitter:card"content="summary_large_image"><metadata-react-helmet="true"name="docsearch:language"content="en"><metadata-react-helmet="true"name="docsearch:version"content="current"><metadata-react-helmet="true"name="docsearch:docusaurus_tag"content="docs-default-current"><metadata-react-helmet="true"property="og:title"content="Cameras | Frigate"><metadata-react-helmet="true"name="description"content="Setting Up Camera Inputs"><metadata-react-helmet="true"property="og:description"content="Setting Up Camera Inputs"><metadata-react-helmet="true"property="og:url"content="https://blakeblackshear.github.io/frigate/configuration/cameras"><linkdata-react-helmet="true"rel="shortcut icon"href="/frigate/img/favicon.ico"><linkdata-react-helmet="true"rel="preconnect"href="https://BH4D9OD16A-dsn.algolia.net"crossorigin="anonymous"><linkdata-react-helmet="true"rel="canonical"href="https://blakeblackshear.github.io/frigate/configuration/cameras"><linkrel="stylesheet"href="/frigate/styles.4dd8d972.css">
</span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token comment"style="color:rgb(105, 112, 152);font-style:italic"># Optional: camera specific global args (default: inherit)</span><spanclass="token plain"></span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token key atrule">global_args</span><spanclass="token punctuation"style="color:rgb(199, 146, 234)">:</span><spanclass="token plain"></span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token comment"style="color:rgb(105, 112, 152);font-style:italic"># Optional: camera specific hwaccel args (default: inherit)</span><spanclass="token plain"></span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token key atrule">hwaccel_args</span><spanclass="token punctuation"style="color:rgb(199, 146, 234)">:</span><spanclass="token plain"></span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token comment"style="color:rgb(105, 112, 152);font-style:italic"># Optional: camera specific input args (default: inherit)</span><spanclass="token plain"></span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token key atrule">input_args</span><spanclass="token punctuation"style="color:rgb(199, 146, 234)">:</span><spanclass="token plain"></span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token comment"style="color:rgb(105, 112, 152);font-style:italic"># Optional: camera specific output args (default: inherit)</span><spanclass="token plain"></span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token key atrule">output_args</span><spanclass="token punctuation"style="color:rgb(199, 146, 234)">:</span><spanclass="token plain"></span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"style="display:inline-block">
</span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token comment"style="color:rgb(105, 112, 152);font-style:italic"># Required: width of the frame for the input with the detect role</span><spanclass="token plain"></span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token key atrule">width</span><spanclass="token punctuation"style="color:rgb(199, 146, 234)">:</span><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token number"style="color:rgb(247, 140, 108)">1280</span><spanclass="token plain"></span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token comment"style="color:rgb(105, 112, 152);font-style:italic"># Required: height of the frame for the input with the detect role</span><spanclass="token plain"></span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token key atrule">height</span><spanclass="token punctuation"style="color:rgb(199, 146, 234)">:</span><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token number"style="color:rgb(247, 140, 108)">720</span><spanclass="token plain"></span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token comment"style="color:rgb(105, 112, 152);font-style:italic"># Optional: desired fps for your camera for the input with the detect role</span><spanclass="token plain"></span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token comment"style="color:rgb(105, 112, 152);font-style:italic"># NOTE: Recommended value of 5. Ideally, try and reduce your FPS on the camera.</span><spanclass="token plain"></span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token comment"style="color:rgb(105, 112, 152);font-style:italic"># Frigate will attempt to autodetect if not specified.</span><spanclass="token plain"></span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token key atrule">fps</span><spanclass="token punctuation"style="color:rgb(199, 146, 234)">:</span><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token number"style="color:rgb(247, 140, 108)">5</span><spanclass="token plain"></span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"style="display:inline-block">
</span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token comment"style="color:rgb(105, 112, 152);font-style:italic"># Optional: timeout for highest scoring image before allowing it</span><spanclass="token plain"></span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token comment"style="color:rgb(105, 112, 152);font-style:italic"># to be replaced by a newer image. (default: shown below)</span><spanclass="token plain"></span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token key atrule">best_image_timeout</span><spanclass="token punctuation"style="color:rgb(199, 146, 234)">:</span><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token number"style="color:rgb(247, 140, 108)">60</span><spanclass="token plain"></span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"style="display:inline-block">
</span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token comment"style="color:rgb(105, 112, 152);font-style:italic"># Optional: zones for this camera</span><spanclass="token plain"></span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token key atrule">zones</span><spanclass="token punctuation"style="color:rgb(199, 146, 234)">:</span><spanclass="token plain"></span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token comment"style="color:rgb(105, 112, 152);font-style:italic"># Required: name of the zone</span><spanclass="token plain"></span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token comment"style="color:rgb(105, 112, 152);font-style:italic"># NOTE: This must be different than any camera names, but can match with another zone on another</span><spanclass="token plain"></span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token comment"style="color:rgb(105, 112, 152);font-style:italic"># camera.</span><spanclass="token plain"></span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token key atrule">front_steps</span><spanclass="token punctuation"style="color:rgb(199, 146, 234)">:</span><spanclass="token plain"></span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token comment"style="color:rgb(105, 112, 152);font-style:italic"># Required: List of x,y coordinates to define the polygon of the zone.</span><spanclass="token plain"></span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token comment"style="color:rgb(105, 112, 152);font-style:italic"># NOTE: Coordinates can be generated at https://www.image-map.net/</span><spanclass="token plain"></span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token key atrule">coordinates</span><spanclass="token punctuation"style="color:rgb(199, 146, 234)">:</span><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token number"style="color:rgb(247, 140, 108)">545</span><spanclass="token punctuation"style="color:rgb(199, 146, 234)">,</span><spanclass="token number"style="color:rgb(247, 140, 108)">1077</span><spanclass="token punctuation"style="color:rgb(199, 146, 234)">,</span><spanclass="token number"style="color:rgb(247, 140, 108)">747</span><spanclass="token punctuation"style="color:rgb(199, 146, 234)">,</span><spanclass="token number"style="color:rgb(247, 140, 108)">939</span><spanclass="token punctuation"style="color:rgb(199, 146, 234)">,</span><spanclass="token number"style="color:rgb(247, 140, 108)">788</span><spanclass="token punctuation"style="color:rgb(199, 146, 234)">,</span><spanclass="token number"style="color:rgb(247, 140, 108)">805</span><spanclass="token plain"></span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token comment"style="color:rgb(105, 112, 152);font-style:italic"># Optional: Zone level object filters.</span><spanclass="token plain"></span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token comment"style="color:rgb(105, 112, 152);font-style:italic"># NOTE: The global and camera filters are applied upstream.</span><spanclass="token plain"></span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token key atrule">filters</span><spanclass="token punctuation"style="color:rgb(199, 146, 234)">:</span><spanclass="token plain"></span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token key atrule">person</span><spanclass="token punctuation"style="color:rgb(199,146,234
</span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token comment"style="color:rgb(105, 112, 152);font-style:italic"># Optional: Camera level detect settings</span><spanclass="token plain"></span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token key atrule">detect</span><spanclass="token punctuation"style="color:rgb(199, 146, 234)">:</span><spanclass="token plain"></span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token comment"style="color:rgb(105, 112, 152);font-style:italic"># Optional: enables detection for the camera (default: True)</span><spanclass="token plain"></span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token comment"style="color:rgb(105, 112, 152);font-style:italic"># This value can be set via MQTT and will be updated in startup based on retained value</span><spanclass="token plain"></span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token key atrule">enabled</span><spanclass="token punctuation"style="color:rgb(199, 146, 234)">:</span><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token boolean important"style="color:rgb(255, 88, 116)">True</span><spanclass="token plain"></span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token comment"style="color:rgb(105, 112, 152);font-style:italic"># Optional: Number of frames without a detection before frigate considers an object to be gone. (default: double the frame rate)</span><spanclass="token plain"></span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token key atrule">max_disappeared</span><spanclass="token punctuation"style="color:rgb(199, 146, 234)">:</span><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token number"style="color:rgb(247, 140, 108)">10</span><spanclass="token plain"></span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"style="display:inline-block">
</span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token comment"style="color:rgb(105, 112, 152);font-style:italic"># Optional: save clips configuration</span><spanclass="token plain"></span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token key atrule">clips</span><spanclass="token punctuation"style="color:rgb(199, 146, 234)">:</span><spanclass="token plain"></span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token comment"style="color:rgb(105, 112, 152);font-style:italic"># Required: enables clips for the camera (default: shown below)</span><spanclass="token plain"></span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token comment"style="color:rgb(105, 112, 152);font-style:italic"># This value can be set via MQTT and will be updated in startup based on retained value</span><spanclass="token plain"></span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token key atrule">enabled</span><spanclass="token punctuation"style="color:rgb(199, 146, 234)">:</span><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token boolean important"style="color:rgb(255, 88, 116)">False</span><spanclass="token plain"></span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token comment"style="color:rgb(105, 112, 152);font-style:italic"># Optional: Number of seconds before the event to include in the clips (default: shown below)</span><spanclass="token plain"></span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token key atrule">pre_capture</span><spanclass="token punctuation"style="color:rgb(199, 146, 234)">:</span><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token number"style="color:rgb(247, 140, 108)">5</span><spanclass="token plain"></span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token comment"style="color:rgb(105, 112, 152);font-style:italic"># Optional: Number of seconds after the event to include in the clips (default: shown below)</span><spanclass="token plain"></span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token key atrule">post_capture</span><spanclass="token punctuation"style="color:rgb(199, 146, 234)">:</span><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token number"style="color:rgb(247, 140, 108)">5</span><spanclass="token plain"></span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token comment"style="color:rgb(105, 112, 152);font-style:italic"># Optional: Objects to save clips for. (default: all tracked objects)</span><spanclass="token plain"></span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token key atrule">objects</span><spanclass="token punctuation"style="color:rgb(199, 146, 234)">:</span><spanclass="token plain"></span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token punctuation"style="color:rgb(199, 146, 234)">-</span><spanclass="token plain"> person</span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token comment"style="color:rgb(105, 112, 152);font-style:italic"># Optional: Camera override for retention settings (default: global values)</span><spanclass="token plain"></span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token key atrule">retain</span><spanclass="token punctuation"style="color:rgb(199, 146, 234)">:</span><spanclass="token plain"></span></div><divclass="token-line"style="color:#bfc7d5"><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token comment"st
