I’ve got several Amcrest cameras connected through Frigate (running standalone) to HA but I’m not sure how to properly setup the camera card so that the ‘thumbnail’ shown on the dashboard cards refreshes every so often.
Previously I had them connected directly to HA via the Dahua integration and set the camera streams as both the thumbnail image and as what’s displayed when you click the card and this all worked fairly well (the thumbnail would refresh every few minutes) but now after switching to Frigate, the thumbnails have remained static since the day it was initially set up and never refresh and I’m not sure how to fix this.
The cameras are all PoE and connected to an Amcrest NVR which does the main recording while Frigate just sees the substream and uses it for object detection and remote viewing through HA. Clicking the camera cards allows me to view the stream but for whatever reason the thumbnails never refresh.
It could also be that you need to re-add the thumbnails displayed in your dashboards, as the entities may be vestigial ones from when you used Dahua.
I wound up switching them from “automatic” to “live view” and now they display live images which seems better than snapshots updating every few minutes.
I’m not sure if it was an artifact from my previous configuration as Frigate added all new entities for the cameras, unless you mean some sort of bug with needing to wipe the whole card and start fresh rather than just swapping the entity IDs from Dahua to Frigate while retaining the same card.
I think live view is how mine are configured, with a snapshot that updates every few minutes.
Then if it’s clicked, the true video stream is opened.
