How to make my rotatable camera cover a certain angle by going left - right?

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As Frigate already has object tracking, i wonder if i can setup a fixed angle that my camera will rotate to cover a wider area.

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Frigate's autotracking feature is designed to track moving objects automatically, not to patrol or scan a fixed angle range on its own(1).

Autotracking works by keeping detected objects centered in the frame once they enter a required zone(1). When tracking ends, Frigate returns the PTZ camera to a preset position specified by return_preset in your configuration(1)(2).

For an ONVIF-capable PTZ camera, you can configure autotracking like this(1):

cameras:
  ptzcamera:
    onvif:
      host: 0.0.0.0
      port: 8000
      user: admin
      password: admin
    autotracking:
      enabled: False
      calibrate_on_startup: False
      zooming: disabled
      zoom_factor: 0.3
      track:
        - person
      required_zones:
        - zone_name
      return_preset: home
      timeout: 10
      movement_weights: []

(1)

The return_preset parameter specifies which ONVIF preset the camera returns to after tracking ends(1)(2). The timeout parameter sets how many seconds to wait before returning to that preset(1)(2).

If you want your camera to cover a wider area by rotating left-right automatically without tracking objects, that's not a built-in Frigate feature. Frigate's autotracking specifically follows detected objects rather than performing scheduled patrol patterns(1).

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📚 Sources:

1. Camera Autotracking
2. Full Reference Config

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