[Config Support]: Frigate not deleting files beyond older than the retention periods configured.

[HomeAssistbs]

Describe the problem you are having

I am not computer expert and apologies if this post is excessively wordy in terms of explaining my problem.
I have four cameras configures in Frigate v0.14.1 as a HACS HA add-on and everything works fine in the Frigate UI.
However, Frigate does not delete files any of the recording, preview or snapshots which it saves in the various folders and sub-folders in the path /usr/share/hassio/media/frigate and therefore they just build up and have to be deleted manually.
Another issue that may be relevant is that if I go the Frigate tab of the HA media browser I see:
Clips [ccab4aaf-frigate:5000]
Recordings [ccab4aaf-frigate:5000]
Snapshots [ccab4aaf-frigate:5000]
The contents of these do appear to be managed in cocordance with the retention configuration but the contents appear to be misconfigured:
Clips [ccab4aaf-frigate:5000] contains cropped bounded snapshots and when I click on one it opens a vieo player but nothing plays or is displayed
Recordings [ccab4aaf-frigate:5000] contains what appear to be one hour recording arranged by hour for each camera. I when I click on these a video player is opened but nothing plays
Snapshots [ccab4aaf-frigate:5000] contains the same cropped bounded snapshot as Clips [ccab4aaf-frigate:5000] but when I click on these it does display the image.
I can’t believe this is how the system should work and I don’t have the expertise to understand or fix it. I have a hypothesis that the actual files may be being recorded to the wrong location so that the deletion process does not find files to delete but does delete the contents of whatever ccab4aaf-frigate:5000 is. This might also explain why it does not create the correct files for ccab4aaf-frigate:5000 in the first place.
I have spent a long time trying to figure out what is going wrong and have repeatedly deleted and reinstalled the add-on an both a live and test environment with the same results. I am unable to find anything relevant in the varioys logs.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Version

v0.14.1 f4f3cfa

Frigate config file

detectors:
  coral:
    type: edgetpu
    device: usb
mqtt:
  host: xxxxxxxxx
  user: mqttuser
  password: home6mqtt
  topic_prefix: frigate
  client_id: frigate
#media:     #ChatGPT
#  output: /media


objects:
  track:
    - person
    - dog
    - cat
    - bird
    - mouse
  filters:
    person: {}
    dog:
      threshold: 0.3
    cat:
      threshold: 0.3
    mouse: {}
snapshots:
  enabled: true
  timestamp: true
  bounding_box: true
  crop: true
  retain:
    default: 1
    objects:
      person: 1
      mouse: 1
#  path: /media/frigate/snapshots
record:
  enabled: true
  retain:
    days: 1
    mode: motion
  events:
    pre_capture: 5        # Seconds to include before the event starts
    post_capture: 5       # Seconds to include after the event ends
    retain:
      default: 1
      mode: active_objects
review:
  alerts:
    labels:
      - person
      - cat
      - dog
      - bird
      - mouse
cameras:
  wnsvw_black:
    enabled: true
    ffmpeg:
      inputs:

        - path: rtsp://xxxxxx
          roles:
            - record
#            - detect
 
        - path: rtsp://xxxxxx
          roles:
            - detect
    detect:
      enabled: true
      height: 720
      width: 1280
      fps: 5
    objects:
      track:
        - dog
    motion:
      mask:
        - 0.716,0,0.715,0.055,1,0.055,1,0
        - 0.004,0.508,0.358,0.499,0.392,0,0.529,0.103,0.641,0.154,0.865,0.235,0.991,0.328,0.996,0.002,0,0.004
    zones: {}
  wnsvw_white:
    enabled: true
    ffmpeg:
      inputs:
        - path: rtsp://xxxxxxxxx
          roles:
            - record
        - path: rtsp://xxxxxxx
          roles:
            - detect
    detect:
      enabled: true
      height: 720
      width: 1280
      fps: 5
    objects:
      track:
        - dog
        - mouse
    motion:
      mask: 0.703,0,0.706,0.046,0.981,0.055,0.979,0
    zones: {}
  wyze_cam:
    ffmpeg:
      inputs:
        - path: rtsp://xxxxxx
          roles:
            - record
            - detect
    detect:
      enabled: true
      height: 1440
      width: 2560
      fps: 5
    record:
      enabled: true

    motion:
      mask:
        - 0.769,1,0.769,0.936,1,0.934,1,0.994,0.94,0.997
        - 0.829,0.493,0.836,0.596,0.902,0.648,0.961,0.77,1,0.939,0.996,0.004,0.001,0,0,1,0.498,1,0.265,0.97,0.108,0.831,0,0.715,0.223,0.587,0.408,0.505,0.582,0.51,0.615,0.503,0.654,0.508
    zones: {}
    review: {}
  foscam:
    enabled: true
    ffmpeg:
      inputs:
        - path: http://xxxxxxx
          roles:
            - detect
            - record
          input_args:
            - -f
            - mjpeg
font.ttf:fontsize=24:fontcolor=white:x=10:y=10:box=1:[email protected]:text='%{localtime} %H:%M:%S'"
    record:
      enabled: true  # Ensures camera-level adherence to global record settings

    detect:
      enabled: true
      height: 480
      width: 640
      fps: 2
    objects:
      track:
        - dog
        - mouse

    motion:
      mask: 0,0.463,0.308,0.338,0.453,0.316,0.863,0.326,0.995,0.326,0.995,0,0,0
version: 0.14
camera_groups:
  playing:
    order: 1
    icon: LuCamera
    cameras:
      - wnsvw_black
      - wnsvw_white
      - wyze_cam
      - foscam

Relevant Frigate log output

2024-11-25 14:07:50.172814406  [INFO] Preparing Frigate...
2024-11-25 14:07:50.187245671  [INFO] Starting Frigate...
2024-11-25 14:07:51.721262278  [2024-11-25 14:07:51] frigate.app                    INFO    : Starting Frigate (0.14.1-f4f3cfa)
2024-11-25 14:07:51.721453879  [2024-11-25 14:07:51] frigate.app                    INFO    : Creating directory: /tmp/cache
2024-11-25 14:07:51.721457251  [2024-11-25 14:07:51] frigate.util.config            INFO    : Checking if frigate config needs migration...
2024-11-25 14:07:51.753111856  [2024-11-25 14:07:51] frigate.util.config            INFO    : frigate config does not need migration...
2024-11-25 14:07:51.960283474  [2024-11-25 14:07:51] frigate.util.services          INFO    : Automatically detected vaapi hwaccel for video decoding
2024-11-25 14:07:52.001646487  [2024-11-25 14:07:52] peewee_migrate.logs            INFO    : Starting migrations
2024-11-25 14:07:52.002563927  [2024-11-25 14:07:52] peewee_migrate.logs            INFO    : There is nothing to migrate
2024-11-25 14:07:52.012968893  [2024-11-25 14:07:52] frigate.app                    INFO    : Recording process started: 394
2024-11-25 14:07:52.018794868  [2024-11-25 14:07:52] frigate.app                    INFO    : Recording process started: 400
2024-11-25 14:07:52.022334240  [2024-11-25 14:07:52] frigate.app                    INFO    : go2rtc process pid: 97
2024-11-25 14:07:52.066333988  [2024-11-25 14:07:52] frigate.app                    INFO    : Output process started: 427
2024-11-25 14:07:52.086429616  [2024-11-25 14:07:52] frigate.app                    INFO    : Camera processor started for wnsvw_black: 443
2024-11-25 14:07:52.092702322  [2024-11-25 14:07:52] frigate.app                    INFO    : Camera processor started for wnsvw_white: 444
2024-11-25 14:07:52.099790171  [2024-11-25 14:07:52] frigate.app                    INFO    : Camera processor started for wyze_cam: 449
2024-11-25 14:07:52.109672176  [2024-11-25 14:07:52] frigate.app                    INFO    : Camera processor started for foscam: 454
2024-11-25 14:07:52.116451683  [2024-11-25 14:07:52] frigate.app                    INFO    : Capture process started for wnsvw_black: 457
2024-11-25 14:07:52.123932588  [2024-11-25 14:07:52] frigate.app                    INFO    : Capture process started for wnsvw_white: 463
2024-11-25 14:07:52.131402051  [2024-11-25 14:07:52] frigate.app                    INFO    : Capture process started for wyze_cam: 474
2024-11-25 14:07:52.143344314  [2024-11-25 14:07:52] frigate.app                    INFO    : Capture process started for foscam: 480
2024-11-25 14:07:54.705666076  [2024-11-25 14:07:52] detector.coral                 INFO    : Starting detection process: 423
2024-11-25 14:07:54.710521352  [2024-11-25 14:07:52] frigate.detectors.plugins.edgetpu_tfl INFO    : Attempting to load TPU as usb
2024-11-25 14:07:54.710658275  [2024-11-25 14:07:54] frigate.detectors.plugins.edgetpu_tfl INFO    : TPU found
2024-11-25 14:07:55.370631348  [2024-11-25 14:07:55] frigate.util.services          ERROR   : Unable to poll intel GPU stats: Failed to initialize PMU! (Permission denied)
2024-11-25 14:08:06.273425  2024-11-25 14:07:55.370639400

Relevant go2rtc log output

2024-11-25 14:07:50.173714129  [INFO] Preparing new go2rtc config...
2024-11-25 14:07:50.212278016  [INFO] Got IP address from supervisor: 192.168.0.61
2024-11-25 14:07:50.246359123  [INFO] Got WebRTC port from supervisor: 8555
2024-11-25 14:07:50.660578976  [INFO] Starting go2rtc...
2024-11-25 14:07:50.812389245  14:07:50.811 INF go2rtc platform=linux/amd64 revision=b2399f3 version=1.9.2
2024-11-25 14:07:50.812395374  14:07:50.811 INF config path=/dev/shm/go2rtc.yaml
2024-11-25 14:07:50.812397301  14:07:50.811 INF [rtsp] listen addr=:8554
2024-11-25 14:07:50.812399254  14:07:50.811 INF [webrtc] listen addr=:8555/tcp
2024-11-25 14:07:50.813098607  14:07:50.813 INF [api] listen addr=:1984
2024-11-25 14:08:00.174046829  [INFO] Starting go2rtc healthcheck service...

Frigate stats

No response

Operating system

Debian

Install method

HassOS Addon

docker-compose file or Docker CLI command

I don't think this is relevant to my configuration

Object Detector

Coral

Screenshots of the Frigate UI's System metrics pages

Any other information that may be helpful

No response

[NickM-27]

how old are the files that you expect to see deleted?

[HomeAssistbs]

They were going back about month when if first switched from motioneye to frigate. Prior to last night I had a 5 day retention period . Since then I have since purged the files manually and reduced the retention to one day

[NickM-27]

How do you have Frigate setup / what is being used for storage?

[HomeAssistbs]

Frigate is setup as an add-on to HA running on an intel NUC under debian 12. storage is on the NUC hard drive. I also have a Coral USB for processing the detections.

[HomeAssistbs]

I have resolved this after long hours prodding around but unfortunately I am not sure how I did it - I think it was a combination of manually purging old files, resetting retention periods and repeatedly uninstalling and reinstalling frigate. Not very satisfying but at least it is working