Timelapse automation in Home Assistant

[joselito11]

Hello!

I need help to create automation in Home Assistant to create Frigate timelapse every day, for the day before - yesterday(from 00:00:00 to 23:59:59). I can do this with action API call, but this take to much time.
Because a lot user use Home Assistant, we can share the automation or blueprint.

Thanks for help!

[inkeep-ai-assistant[bot]]

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Based on the available documentation, Frigate supports time-lapse export functionality through its HTTP API(1). The time-lapse feature can be configured with custom parameters using the timelapse_args configuration option(1).

To create a time-lapse in Frigate, you would use the export API endpoint(1). The default time-lapse settings use a 25x speed-up with 30 FPS, meaning every 25 seconds of real-time recording condenses into 1 second of time-lapse video(1).

You can customize the time-lapse speed and frame rate in your Frigate configuration(1):

record:
  enabled: True
  export:
    timelapse_args: "-vf setpts=PTS/60 -r 25"

(1)

For a Home Assistant automation that creates daily time-lapses for the previous day (00:00:00 to 23:59:59), you would need to use Home Assistant's RESTful action to call the Frigate export API endpoint. The specific endpoint for time-lapse export is mentioned in the documentation as being available via the HTTP API(1).

While the documentation doesn't provide a complete Home Assistant automation blueprint for this specific use case, you can reference the community examples for Frigate automations(2). The documentation shows that users have successfully created notification automations using MQTT triggers and API calls(2).

For your daily time-lapse automation, you would configure:

• A time trigger for early morning (e.g., 01:00:00)
• Calculate yesterday's date range (00:00:00 to 23:59:59)
• Use a RESTful action to call the Frigate export endpoint with time-lapse parameters
• Specify your camera name and the calculated time range

The documentation notes that time-lapse generation uses hardware encoding when hwaccel_args is configured globally, and you can adjust the output file size using the -qp n parameter(1).

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📚 Sources:

1. Recording
2. Sharing my Home Assistant notification blueprints

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