Image entity update delay

[cigas4]

Hello,

I have noticed issue after Frigate update to 0.14.0-da913d8 version:
Image entities provided by Frigate integration (version 5.3.0) in HomeAssistant are updated with a delay. Looks like new motion picture is loaded to HA picture entity only when motion is already cleared. On earlier Frigate versions picture entity was updated with new picture at the same moment when motion is detected.

I have motion notifications set up with these image entities as an attachment and now after update it does not work as intended. Normally, when motion is detected by Frigate, at the very same moment, notification with picture entity is sent to my phone. After this update I have started receiving motion notifications including old motion picture (some hours or days old), because picture entity is not yet updated with current motion picture.
As a temporary solution I have to modify my automations, so when motion is detected I have to wait until motion is cleared, only then I can send notification which will include picture with updated picture entity.

HA is running in Proxmox VM:
Core 2024.8.2
Supervisor 2024.08.0
Operating System 13.0
Frontend 20240809.0

Frigate is running in Proxmox LXC in docker container.

[Benjamin-299]

@cigas4 I started noticing this same issue several days ago (about a week - never notated the exact date).

I run a HAOS VM inside of proxmox. Frigate runs as an add on of HA, and my notifications are done within nodered. At first I thought it was just a slight delay in the update of the image entity. Tried adding a few second delay before sending the notifications, but didn't help.

Hadn't done much digging yet till this morning and saw this - Believe we are having the same issues. Somehow I had never thought to compare the time stamps between the entities changing! At a glance this morning, it does seem like the person image entity is only updating AFTER the person object has cleared.

Glad to know I'm not alone on this one.

[Benjamin-299]

@cigas4
Did a bit more investigating here.

My frigate instance (ha addon) is not sending the mqtt message with a person snapshot until the person even has cleared.

Believe this will actually be an issue within Frigate directly, and not the integration.

[NickM-27]

see the related discussion. Nothing has changed regarding this in frigate so it is not clear why the behavior would be any different blakeblackshear/frigate#11696 (reply in thread)

[mathmaniac43]

I have been experiencing the same problem, and just fully diagnosed it today. The image is not updated in HA until motion is cleared.

[DastardlyDino]

Commenting to follow. I have the same issue

[yzjJosh]

I'm having the same problem.

[TRusselo]

same here.

as a workaround i changed my home assistant automation
I added first action "wait for trigger" wait for frigate image to change state.

`action:

• wait_for_trigger:

  • platform: state
    entity_id:
    • image.driveway_person

• data:
  message: A person has been detected in the Front Yard.
  data:
  clickAction: entityId:camera.blueiris_front_yard
  image: /api/image_proxy/image.driveway_person
  entity_id: image.driveway_person
  actions:
  - action: URI
  title: Open Camera
  uri: entityId:camera.blueiris_front_yard
  tag: person-front
  title: Person Detected
  action: notify.mobile_app_tristyn_s_note_20`

  this results in a 10-30 second delay...
  GROSS!

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[mathmaniac43]

This is still a problem.

[cigas4]

This is still a problem.

Same here.