Where is the video clip stored?

[thematrixdev]

According to the documentation, video is stored in "recordings" and image is stored in "clips".
I want the trimmed video (with detection) file to be sent by Telegram as a file.

Thanks.

[NickM-27]

If you want the video of an event then you should use the API https://docs.frigate.video/integrations/api#get-apieventsidclipmp4

[NickM-27]

The MQTT events topic is verbose so it sends many messages and right as they happen and they're filterable. In my experience the clip is available at the end message or 10 seconds after it.

[thematrixdev]

This is the HA Automation I am using. I am waiting for the next run to see the result.

- id: 'dummyid'
  alias: Frigate Telegram Notification
  description: ''
  trigger:
  - platform: mqtt
    topic: frigate/events
    payload: atom-entrance
    value_template: '{{ value_json[''after''][''camera''] }}'
  condition:
  - condition: template
    value_template: '{{ trigger.payload_json[''type''] != ''end'' }}'
  action:
  - service: telegram_bot.send_photo
    data:
      target: mytelegramchatid
      url: https://myid.ui.nabu.casa/api/frigate/notifications/{{trigger.payload_json['after']['id']}}/snapshot.jpg
  - repeat:
      sequence:
      - wait_for_trigger:
        - platform: mqtt
          topic: frigate/events
          payload: '{{ trigger.payload_json[''after''][''id''] }}'
          value_template: '{{ value_json[''after''][''id''] }}'
        timeout: 180
        continue_on_timeout: false
      - condition: template
        value_template: '{{ wait.trigger.payload_json[''type''] == ''end'' }}'
      - delay:
          hours: 0
          minutes: 0
          seconds: 5
          milliseconds: 0
      - service: telegram_bot.send_video
        data:
          target: mytelegramchatid
          url: https://myid.ui.nabu.casa/api/frigate/notifications/{{trigger.payload_json['after']['id']}}/atom-entrance/clip.mp4
      until:
      - condition: template
        value_template: '{{ wait.trigger.payload_json[''type''] == ''end'' }}'
  mode: single

[NickM-27]

Okay cool, maybe takes longer on your system if that isn't working.

[JonGilmore]

just an fyi @thematrixdev, your automation works for me :D thanks for posting it!

[thematrixdev]

@JonGilmore The script seems to be problematic. See the new comment below please.

[JonGilmore]

@thematrixdev here's my solution to trimming the video files before sending to telegram. It works pretty well, but I'd love to be able to adapt it to a trigger that actually uses the mqtt events instead of a janky file watcher 😛

edit: I'm not smart, lol. forgot that I actually did edit it to not use a file watcher anymore, haha.

[thematrixdev]

Oh good. I have thought of downloading the video, but could not think of running shell command in HA

[JonGilmore]

this is very likely not the most elegant solution, so I'd love to see what you come up with!

[thematrixdev]

I have just found Frigate has recorded three videos, for one same person, with time overlapped.

Could these three videos be one single video?

The video with timestamp 10:52 is missing from Telegram.

There is an error at 10:52 in HA log:

2022-09-14 10:52:06.670 ERROR (SyncWorker_2) [homeassistant.components.telegram_bot] Can't load data into ByteIO: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='mynabuid.ui.nabu.casa', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /api/frigate/notifications/1663123906.346953-21quji/snapshot.jpg (Caused by SSLError(SSLEOFError(8, 'EOF occurred in violation of protocol (_ssl.c:997)')))
2022-09-14 10:52:06.672 ERROR (SyncWorker_2) [homeassistant.components.telegram_bot] Can't send file with kwargs: {'url': 'https://mynabuid.ui.nabu.casa/api/frigate/notifications/1663123906.346953-21quji/snapshot.jpg'}

The snapshot shows a timestamp at 10:52.

This SSL error happens from time to time.