Exporting random segments of video?

[masonevans]

I use my cameras for a combination of security & wildlife videos. There are lots of times where Frigate doesn't detect an object or create an event but I'd still like to save a random segment of video (for example, last night there was a bobcat walking around that wasn't detected as an object).

Is there an easy way to do this that anyone has found?

[blakeblackshear]

There is an endpoint for this, but it's not in the docs. https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate/blob/master/frigate/http.py#L559

[blakeblackshear]

Note that if the file is too large, it may fill your cache and crash frigate.

[masonevans]

Thanks, that worked!

For anyone reading this who doesn't know Python, you can hit the following URL to get the video

http://<host>/api/<camera name>/start/<start ts>/end/<end ts>/clip.mp4

Where ts is a Unix epoch, can be converted here: https://www.epochconverter.com

If you want to download the video instead of viewing it in the browser you can append ?download=true

[vakilando]

Better yet, if we could have a timeline

Yes a timeline woud be perfect!
I'm just "migrating" from xeoma to frigate and I am missing the timeline xeoma provides for the archive (records). In this timeline you see the events and can choose them in a calendar like dialogue (see the screenshot).