[Support]: Car/person detection during the day and only people at night?

Describe the problem you are having

I am only opening this as an issue because with the upcoming launch of Frigate+, I suspect this to be something people may request or want to achieve.

I noticed that the way my camera is pointed is my driveway always gives me false alerts with parked cars so along with the power of Home Assistant, I configured my detectors to only be on when we are away and know that the cars are not there. I achieved that using location and a simple automation. The issue now is at night, I would like to turn on the detector but only allow the detector to pick up people, no cars as I know the cars will be there in the zone causing false alerts.

Is this possible? For some reason, I can’t think it through.

Version

0.10.0

Frigate config file

cameras:
  driveway_cam:
    rtmp:
      enabled: False

    ffmpeg:
      inputs:
        - path: rtsp://ha:REDACTED$@192.168.141.14:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=0
          roles:
            - detect
            - record

    detect:
      width: 3840
      height: 2160
      fps: 5
      enabled: True

    zones:
      driveway:
        coordinates: 2876,2160,2083,1823,1928,1413,2175,1308,3840,1746,3840,2160
        objects:
          - person
          - dog
          - car

    objects:
      track:
        - person
        - dog
        - car
      filters:
        person:
          # Optional: minimum width*height of the bounding box for the detected object (default: 0)
          min_area: 5000
          # Optional: maximum width*height of the bounding box for the detected object (default: 24000000)
          max_area: 100000
          mask:
            - 0,0,0,2160,2098,2160,1928,1374,2690,948,3840,1130,3840,0
        car:
          # Optional: minimum width*height of the bounding box for the detected object (default: 0)
          min_area: 5000
          # Optional: maximum width*height of the bounding box for the detected object (default: 24000000)
          max_area: 200000
          mask:
            - 0,0,0,2160,2098,2160,1928,1374,2690,948,3840,1130,3840,0
        dog:
          mask:
            - 0,0,0,2160,2098,2160,1928,1374,2690,948,3840,1130,3840,0

    motion:
      # Increasing this value will make motion detection less sensitive
      # threshold: 30
      # default 25

      # Minimum size in pixels in the resized motion image that counts as motion.
      # Increasing this value will prevent smaller areas of motion from being detected. Decreasing will
      # make motion detection more sensitive to smaller moving objects.
      # As a rule of thumb:
      #  - 15 - high sensitivity
      #  - 30 - medium sensitivity
      #  - 50 - low sensitivity
      contour_area: 35
      # default: 30

      mask:
       - 0,0,0,2160,2098,2160,1928,1374,2690,948,3840,1130,3840,0

    record:
      enabled: True
      retain:
        days: 7
        mode: motion
      events:
        max_seconds: 240
        pre_capture: 5
        post_capture: 5
        retain:
          default: 7
          mode: active_objects
        objects:
          - person
          - car
          - dog
        required_zones:
          - driveway

    snapshots:
      enabled: True
      timestamp: True
      bounding_box: True
      crop: False
      required_zones:
        - driveway
      retain:
        default: 7
#####

mqtt:
  host: 192.168.141.21
  user: REDACTED
  password: REDACTED

detectors:
  coral:
    type: edgetpu
    device: usb

database:
  path: /db/frigate.db

snapshots:
  enabled: True
  timestamp: True
  bounding_box: True
  crop: False
  required_zones: []
  retain:
    default: 7

model:
  labelmap:
    15: animal
    16: animal
    17: animal
    18: animal
    19: animal
    20: animal
    21: animal
    22: animal
    23: animal
    24: animal

birdseye:
  enabled: False
  # width: 1920
  # height: 1080
  # quality: 8
  # mode: motion

Relevant log output

NA

FFprobe output from your camera

NA

Frigate stats

No response

Operating system

Debian

Install method

Docker Compose

Coral version

USB

Network connection

Wired

Camera make and model

Amcrest 4K

Any other information that may be helpful

No response

[blakeblackshear]

I don’t think you should get events for objects that never change position, so if there is a parked car, it shouldn’t create an event if it never moves. It may get confusing while tracking if a car drives by, but generally this should be the case.

[junior466]

@NickM-27 Wow sir, you are amazing! Thank you for your time. I will try this shortly!