From e207b2f50bd116ee014e3779ac7e6a2b9d353b1b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Josh Hawkins <32435876+hawkeye217@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2025 09:30:23 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Refactor export filenames to include start and end date/time
 (#16446)

---
 frigate/record/export.py | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/frigate/record/export.py b/frigate/record/export.py
index e083d9208..48fe20e83 100644
--- a/frigate/record/export.py
+++ b/frigate/record/export.py
@@ -333,7 +333,14 @@ class RecordingExporter(threading.Thread):
             self.user_provided_name
             or f"{self.camera.replace('_', ' ')} {self.get_datetime_from_timestamp(self.start_time)} {self.get_datetime_from_timestamp(self.end_time)}"
         )
-        video_path = f"{EXPORT_DIR}/{self.export_id}.mp4"
+        filename_start_datetime = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(
+            self.start_time
+        ).strftime("%Y%m%d_%H%M%S")
+        filename_end_datetime = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(self.end_time).strftime(
+            "%Y%m%d_%H%M%S"
+        )
+        cleaned_export_id = self.export_id.split("_")[-1]
+        video_path = f"{EXPORT_DIR}/{self.camera}_{filename_start_datetime}-{filename_end_datetime}_{cleaned_export_id}.mp4"
         thumb_path = self.save_thumbnail(self.export_id)
 
         Export.insert(