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[Support]: Retention not working - recording all the time instead

See original GitHub issue

Describe the problem you are having

Frigate keeps recording clips every 10 seconds even though there are no events. These are never cleaned up and eat up all the disk space eventually. What do I need to do in order to have simply a recording of an event???

Version

0.9.4-26AE608

Frigate config file

rtmp:
  # Optional: Enable the RTMP stream (default: True)
  enabled: False

cameras:
  # Name of your camera
  front_door:
    ffmpeg:
      inputs:
        - path: rtsp://192.168.1.159:81/entr
          roles:
            - detect
            - clips
            - record
            #- rtmp
    detect:    
      width: 960
      height: 720
      fps: 10
    
    record:
      enabled: True
      retain_days: 0     
      events:
        max_seconds: 60
        pre_capture: 5
        post_capture: 5
        objects:
          - person
          - tennis racket
        retain:
          default: 2
          objects:
            person: 5
          
    snapshots:
      # Optional: Enable writing jpg snapshot to /media/frigate/clips (default: shown below)
      # This value can be set via MQTT and will be updated in startup based on retained value
      enabled: True
      # Optional: print a timestamp on the snapshots (default: shown below)
      timestamp: True
      # Optional: draw bounding box on the snapshots (default: shown below)
      bounding_box: True
      # Optional: crop the snapshot (default: shown below)
      crop: False
      # Optional: height to resize the snapshot to (default: original size)
      #height: 175
      # Optional: Restrict snapshots to objects that entered any of the listed zones (default: no required zones)
      #required_zones: []
      # Optional: Camera override for retention settings (default: global values)
      retain:
        # Required: Default retention days (default: shown below)
        default: 5
        # Optional: Per object retention days
        objects:
          person: 5