Setup ESP32 cam with Frigate

[Andreasav]

Hi

I have a esp32 cam and I can’t get it to work with (in) frigate/Home Assistant. I have tried a number of setups/settings/combinations.

I have tried both esphome and arduino setup. Both methods work in a web browser but bad/not in frigate/Home Assistant.
Sometimes I can get "live stream" with a 10-20 sec delay, if I click in to the camera, not in cameras overview.

I have frigate in docker on a Synology with high performs.

Synology DS218+, cpu 2ghz, ram 6144mb
HA latest version on NUCi3.

My RSPT camera works but not my esp32 cam.

Frigate log

Cam setup

When I have this setup, sometimes I get no frames have been received, check error logs and sometimes I get live stream, with 8 sek delay.

Frigate log

Cam setup

Another setup

Cam setup

Frigate log

How should I config my camera so I can get live stream / detection etc works in Home Assistant/in frigate?

Thank you !

[NickM-27]

This is covered in the docs https://docs.frigate.video/configuration/camera_specific#mjpeg-cameras

[NickM-27]

You shouldn't be using go2rtc external to frigate, should be using the go2rtc that is built in to frigate.

[trevorstuart24]

Is there a downside to it? My live view latency is better with the add on

[trevorstuart24]

And it didn’t seem go2rtc was even working until I added the add on

[NickM-27]

there are multiple downsides including extra connections to camera, redundant resource usage, and extra port conflicts like what you are describing.

The only reason behavior or performance would be different is if you are running the version of go2rtc included in frigate 0.12, which can be updated following the docs https://docs.frigate.video/configuration/advanced#custom-go2rtc-version

[trevorstuart24]

Thank you