Add sensors for audio level

[tpjanssen]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Create a sensor for audio sensors dBFS and rms.

Describe the solution you'd like Readings are present in the posted MQTT data, so values exist outside Frigate.

Describe alternatives you've considered Reading the MQTT topic manually.

Additional context

[bagobones]

I was just about to request the same thing.. I have had very limited success troubleshooting audio detection DIRECTLY in MQTT.. Being able to leverage the data as sensors in HA would make it so much easier.

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[chatziko]

This would be a simple yet pretty useful feature, the issue should be reopened IMHO.

[starsoccer]

+1

[bagobones]

I gave up on tuning my audio detection so I hop this gets added to the debug UI in frigate or as a sensor in the HA plugin.

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[terranjp]

I have been wanting something like this for awhile.

You can add a mqtt sensors like the following to enable this now:

mqtt:
  sensor:
    - name: "camera_rms"
      state_topic: "frigate/camera_name/audio/rms"
    - name: "camera_dbfs"
      state_topic: "frigate/camera_name/audio/dBFS"

[bagobones]

I have been wanting something like this for awhile.

You can add a mqtt sensors like the following to enable this now:

mqtt:
  sensor:
    - name: "camera_rms"
      state_topic: "frigate/camera_name/audio/rms"
    - name: "camera_dbfs"
      state_topic: "frigate/camera_name/audio/dBFS"

I have been thinking about doing that for my doorbell and making a visual dashboard but it is a bit cumbersome to do manually for many cameras.

I am hoping that something gets officially added to debug view in the frigate UI that shows the current threshold value so it is obvious to tune against the live data without having to flip back and forth

[stplatt]

I see this was implemented in https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate-hass-integration/pull/644 but how do you add the sensor into home assistant?

[NickM-27]

update the integration to 5.1.0 and it will be there automatically

[stplatt]

I'm on 5.1.0 but I'm not seeing it?

[NickM-27]

you may need to reload the integration, it also shows your camera as unavailable so that might be part of the issue as well

[stplatt]

Yeah I've tried to reload the integration. The camera always shows as unavailable, not sure why, but all of the other occupancy and audio sensors are working fine. (as you can tell from this screenshot)

What is the audio sensor named?

[bagobones]

Reboot HA if you haven't , reloading the integration didn't work for me, I think it has to be a reboot as new entities are added.