Add ability to configure genai to use snapshot instead of thumbnails (#14077)

* Allow embedding of snapshot for description via config option

* docs

* frontend button

* Backend

* crop snapshot to region

* only show dropdown when event has snapshot

* fix cursor on dropdown

* crop on initial generation as well

* use enum for type

* fix type

frigate/api/defs/regenerate_query_parameters.py

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+from typing import Optional
+
+from pydantic import BaseModel
+
+from frigate.events.types import RegenerateDescriptionEnum
+
+
+class RegenerateQueryParameters(BaseModel):
+    source: Optional[RegenerateDescriptionEnum] = RegenerateDescriptionEnum.thumbnails

frigate/api/event.py

@@ -31,6 +31,9 @@ from frigate.api.defs.events_query_parameters import (
     EventsSearchQueryParams,
     EventsSummaryQueryParams,
 )
+from frigate.api.defs.regenerate_query_parameters import (
+    RegenerateQueryParameters,
+)
 from frigate.api.defs.tags import Tags
 from frigate.const import (
     CLIPS_DIR,
@@ -996,7 +999,9 @@ def set_description(
 
 
 @router.put("/events/{event_id}/description/regenerate")
-def regenerate_description(request: Request, event_id: str):
+def regenerate_description(
+    request: Request, event_id: str, params: RegenerateQueryParameters = Depends()
+):
     try:
         event: Event = Event.get(Event.id == event_id)
     except DoesNotExist:
@@ -1009,7 +1014,7 @@ def regenerate_description(request: Request, event_id: str):
         request.app.frigate_config.semantic_search.enabled
         and request.app.frigate_config.genai.enabled
     ):
-        request.app.event_metadata_updater.publish(event.id)
+        request.app.event_metadata_updater.publish((event.id, params.source))
 
         return JSONResponse(
             content=(
@@ -1017,7 +1022,8 @@ def regenerate_description(request: Request, event_id: str):
                     "success": True,
                     "message": "Event "
                     + event_id
-                    + " description regeneration has been requested.",
+                    + " description regeneration has been requested using "
+                    + params.source,
                 }
             ),
             status_code=200,