[Support]: Help needed with recording of Person only

[championc]

Describe the problem you are having

I really love Frigate, but I have an issue which I do not understand.

I have a new Reolink doorbell which streams RTSP - all good so far.

I setup my masks and setup record with the Object: person

However, I get lots of recordings indicating the detected object as "Car". I want person or nothing

Version

0.16.0

What browser(s) are you using?

No response

Frigate config file

doorbell:
    enabled: true
    ffmpeg:
      hwaccel_args: preset-vaapi
      #        - -hwaccel
      #        - qsv
      #        - -qsv_device
      #        - /dev/dri/renderD128
      inputs:
        - path: rtsp://admin:password@192.168.1.93:554/h264Preview_01_sub # <----- The stream you want to use for detection
          roles:
            - detect
        - path: rtsp://admin:password@192.168.1.93:554/h264Preview_01_main # <----- The stream you want to use for recording
          roles:
            - record
    detect:
      enabled: true
    objects:
      track:
        - person
        - car
        - bicycle
        - motorcycle
        - dog
        - cat
        - face
      filters:
        person:
          threshold: 0.72
        car:
          threshold: 0.72
        bicycle:
          threshold: 0.72
        motorcycle:
          threshold: 0.72
        dog:
          threshold: 0.72
        cat:
          threshold: 0.72
        face:
          threshold: 0.7
    record: # <----- Enable recording
      enabled: true
      retain:
        days: 30
        mode: active_objects
      alerts:
        retain:
          days: 30
        pre_capture: 2
        post_capture: 2
      detections:
        retain:
          days: 30
        pre_capture: 2
        post_capture: 2
    zones:
      Driveway:
        coordinates: 
          0.007,0.321,0.129,0.261,0.238,0.281,0.353,0.545,0.441,0.533,0.508,0.532,0.57,0.53,0.655,0.531,0.688,0.602,0.721,0.591,0.736,0.568,0.847,0.568,0.987,0.649,0.996,0.992,0.007,0.99
        loitering_time: 0
        inertia: 5
        objects: person
    review:
      detections:
        required_zones: Driveway
    motion:
      mask: 
        0.007,0.003,0.993,0.005,0.989,0.429,0.991,0.649,0.849,0.571,0.738,0.567,0.68,0.585,0.655,0.533,0.572,0.535,0.475,0.535,0.351,0.535,0.3,0.409,0.241,0.274,0.12,0.257,0.006,0.316
      threshold: 30
      contour_area: 20
      improve_contrast: true

Relevant Frigate log output

n/a

Relevant go2rtc log output

n/a

FFprobe output from your camera

n/a

Frigate stats

n/a

Install method

Docker Compose

docker-compose file or Docker CLI command

n/a

Object Detector

CPU (no coral)

Network connection

Wireless

Camera make and model

Reolink v2 Doorbell

Screenshots of the Frigate UI's System metrics pages

No response

Any other information that may be helpful

No response

[inkeep-ai-assistant[bot]]

(1), (2), (3)

Based on your configuration, you're tracking multiple object types (person, car, bicycle, motorcycle, dog, cat, face) but only want recordings for person objects(3). The issue is that your review configuration only restricts detections to the Driveway zone, but doesn't limit which object types trigger recordings(2).

To record only person objects, you need to configure your review section to specify which labels qualify as alerts and detections. Here's what you should modify in your config:

doorbell:
  review:
    alerts:
      labels:
        - person
      required_zones:
        - Driveway
    detections:
      labels:
        - person
      required_zones:
        - Driveway

(2), (3)

By default, alerts include person and car objects, and detections include all tracked objects(2). By explicitly setting the labels field under both alerts and detections, you restrict review items to only person objects(2).

Additionally, you may want to restrict your zone to only trigger for person objects:

zones:
  Driveway:
    coordinates: 0.007,0.321,0.129,0.261,0.238,0.281,0.353,0.545,0.441,0.533,0.508,0.532,0.57,0.53,0.655,0.531,0.688,0.602,0.721,0.591,0.736,0.568,0.847,0.568,0.987,0.649,0.996,0.992,0.007,0.99
    loitering_time: 0
    inertia: 5
    objects:
      - person

(1), (3)

This ensures that only person objects can trigger the Driveway zone(1).

📚 Sources:

1. Zones
2. Review
3. Full Reference Config

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