Frigate NVR setup on my NAS

[FinOxy]

Hello

I am trying to setup a NVR solution using frigate container running on my Truenas Scale NAS.

I have been trying to setup a live view for starts with recording settings later, TLDR my plan was to setup first live view and after that, recording when motion is detected.

I am using a couple of Off-brand Ip-cameras
Here is the config on the camera side I am using

Here is my config file I am using rn

mqtt:
  enabled: false

cameras:
  #192.168.1.179
  camera01:
    enabled: true
    ffmpeg:
      inputs:
        - path: rtsp://admin:[email protected]:554/rtsp
          roles:
            - detect
            - record
            - rtmp
            
    detect:
      enabled: true
      width: 1920
      height: 1080
    record:
      enabled: true

  #192.168.1.186
  camera02:
    enabled: true
    ffmpeg:
      inputs:
        - path: rtsp://admin:[email protected]:554/rtsp
          roles:
            - detect
            - record
            - rtmp
            
    detect:
      enabled: true
      width: 1920
      height: 1080

    record:
      enabled: true

Here is what the web UI looks like

I will place the log below

Any hints, guides or ideas what should I try next?

Thank you already in advance!

[FinOxy]

Here is the log in .txt file
frigate-error-log-10.10.2023.txt (194.4 KB)
I kinda ran into a limit on this platform so I have to make it into a .txt file. Sorry for that…

[slidermike]

Good luck with Frigate.
It is not a newbie friendly setup.
The path string is very vendor / model specific.
I assume you used the path string in vlc to validate it works (you can see the stream).
Try this.

[Support]: Unable to read frames from ffmpeg process

[FinOxy]

Thank you @slidermike for your good and fast response!

@slidermike

Good luck with Frigate.
It is not a newbie friendly setup.
The path string is very vendor / model specific.

Yeah, it seemed so to me. Any good alternatives that you would suggest?

@slidermike

I assume you used the path string in vlc to validate it works (you can see the stream).
Try this.

No, I am sorry. I should have done more research on that, but no, I cannot get it to show through with VLC. It claims that a RTSP session cannot be establised.

I tried the following location streams

rtsp://192.168.1.179:554

rtsp://username:[email protected]:554 #Where the username is the cameras username and password cameras password

rtsp://192.168.1.179:554/stream1

I also tried the test address from this site. No stream either
I am using the default VLC settings.

Any ideas? Once again, many thanks for reading this far!

[slidermike]

If you cannot see the stream through a media player like vlc then either your string is not correct, the camera not correctly configured to allow the rtsp for that user or it’s not capable.
As for alternatives… i use Blue Iris. It requires windows and is not free but is free to try. I am not a guru on the various vid platform options but found Shinobi frustrating and unintuitive to setup. The Reolink cameras have one of the better apps in my experience if your cameras are that brand.

[felixthecat]

@FinOxy

Any good alternatives that you would suggest?

If you’re not set on using Frigate, I would highly recommend you check out iSpy AgentDVR. (Click)

It’s very easy to set up in a Docker on TrueNAS Scale, configuration and camera support is painless in my experience with Reolink and Hikvision and is very stable.