Live View

Frigate has different live view options, some of which require restream to be enabled.

Live View Options#

Live view options can be selected while viewing the live stream. The options are:

Source	Latency	Frame Rate	Resolution	Audio	Requires Restream	Other Limitations
jsmpeg	low	same as `detect -> fps`, capped at 10	same as detect	no	no	none
mse	low	native	native	yes (depends on audio codec)	yes	none
webrtc	lowest	native	native	yes (depends on audio codec)	yes	requires extra config

webRTC works by creating a websocket connection on extra ports. One of the following is required for webRTC to work:

Frigate is run with network_mode: host to support automatic UDP port pass through locally and remotely. See https://github.com/AlexxIT/go2rtc#module-webrtc for more details
Frigate is run with network_mode: bridge and has:
- Router setup to forward port 8555 to port 8555 on the frigate device.
- For local webRTC, you will need to create your own go2rtc config:

webrtc:
  listen: ":8555"
  candidates:
    - <frigate host ip address>:8555 # <--- enter frigate host IP here
    - stun:8555

and pass that config to frigate via docker or frigate-go2rtc.yaml for addon users:

volumes:
  - /path/to/your/go2rtc.yaml:/config/frigate-go2rtc.yaml:ro