Ronald Ruijs
n3wb
Hello,
I bought an EmpireTech bullet camera with speaker and variable zoom (IPC-B54IR-Z4E-S3).
For me, this works partly in Frigate. Image quality seems very good. (although next time, I by a camera with built-in lighting). Microphone works, too.
If you want sound to be recorded:
1. Set Audio Codec to AAC in camera web interface
2. Add the following to your Frigate camera configuration (by default, Frigat e recordings do not include audio:
cameras:
my_camera:
ffmpeg:
output_args:
#audio format must be AAC, so we set this as format in camera configuration
record: preset-record-generic-audio-copy
However, I cannot control zoom, and I cannot acces camera speaker.
For controlling zoom: I added the following to my camera config:
cameras:
my_camera:
ffmpeg:
...
onvif: # necessary for ptz handling via frigate
host: <ip-address of camera>
port: 80
user: <camera username>
password: <camera password>
This gives no errors, but zoom buttons are not displayed. In camera web interface, I cannot find any zoom control either. However, HappySoft Onvif Client can control zoom, so zooming via Onvif is possible.
Regarding camera speaker: i cannot get any sound there. I tried analog in using an analog sound source. Also, in the camera web interface, there is an option to play wav's, which does nothing.
Anyone who knows how to get zoom and speaker to work in Frigate?
Regards, Ronald
Edit: could not get yaml indent displayed OK. REfer to Frigate Docs for correct indent of yaml.
I bought an EmpireTech bullet camera with speaker and variable zoom (IPC-B54IR-Z4E-S3).
For me, this works partly in Frigate. Image quality seems very good. (although next time, I by a camera with built-in lighting). Microphone works, too.
If you want sound to be recorded:
1. Set Audio Codec to AAC in camera web interface
2. Add the following to your Frigate camera configuration (by default, Frigat e recordings do not include audio:
cameras:
my_camera:
ffmpeg:
output_args:
#audio format must be AAC, so we set this as format in camera configuration
record: preset-record-generic-audio-copy
However, I cannot control zoom, and I cannot acces camera speaker.
For controlling zoom: I added the following to my camera config:
cameras:
my_camera:
ffmpeg:
...
onvif: # necessary for ptz handling via frigate
host: <ip-address of camera>
port: 80
user: <camera username>
password: <camera password>
This gives no errors, but zoom buttons are not displayed. In camera web interface, I cannot find any zoom control either. However, HappySoft Onvif Client can control zoom, so zooming via Onvif is possible.
Regarding camera speaker: i cannot get any sound there. I tried analog in using an analog sound source. Also, in the camera web interface, there is an option to play wav's, which does nothing.
Anyone who knows how to get zoom and speaker to work in Frigate?
Regards, Ronald
Edit: could not get yaml indent displayed OK. REfer to Frigate Docs for correct indent of yaml.