diff --git a/docs/docs/configuration/license_plate_recognition.md b/docs/docs/configuration/license_plate_recognition.md index 45670b43aa..afd0f241f1 100644 --- a/docs/docs/configuration/license_plate_recognition.md +++ b/docs/docs/configuration/license_plate_recognition.md @@ -671,7 +671,7 @@ lpr: 3. Ensure your plates are being _detected_. If you are using a Frigate+ or `license_plate` detecting model: - - Watch the debug view (Settings --> Debug) to ensure that `license_plate` is being detected. + - Watch the [Debug view](/usage/live#the-single-camera-view) to ensure that `license_plate` is being detected. - View MQTT messages for `frigate/events` to verify detected plates. - You may need to adjust your `min_score` and/or `threshold` for the `license_plate` object if your plates are not being detected. diff --git a/docs/docs/usage/explore.md b/docs/docs/usage/explore.md index a371c79979..8fe530b1cf 100644 --- a/docs/docs/usage/explore.md +++ b/docs/docs/usage/explore.md @@ -9,6 +9,12 @@ import NavPath from "@site/src/components/NavPath"; This page describes how to _use_ the Explore view. For how the underlying features are _configured_, see [Semantic Search](/configuration/semantic_search) and [Generative AI descriptions](/configuration/genai/genai_objects). +:::tip + +If you just want to quickly see what happened on your cameras, it's recommended to use [Review](/usage/review) rather than Explore. Review groups overlapping and adjacent activity on a camera into **review items** and sorts them into Alerts, Detections, and Motion, so you can scan and play back footage in a few clicks instead of sifting through individual objects. Reach for Explore when you need to find a _specific_ tracked object after the fact — by label, time, zone, or description. + +::: + ## Browsing tracked objects The default view shows your most recent tracked objects grouped into rows by label — _Person_, _Car_, _Dog_, and so on — each row labeled with the object type and a count. The arrow at the end of a row opens the full, filterable grid for that label. diff --git a/docs/docs/usage/live.md b/docs/docs/usage/live.md index e4ff034bd6..0fd96cdab7 100644 --- a/docs/docs/usage/live.md +++ b/docs/docs/usage/live.md @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ This page describes how to _use_ the Live view. For how to _configure_ live stre The default **All Cameras** dashboard shows every camera, with a filmstrip of recent **alerts** scrolling across the top. Clicking an alert opens it in [Review](/usage/review); each card also has a check button to mark it reviewed without leaving the dashboard. Only **alerts** appear in the filmstrip — to suppress a label or zone from showing there, configure it as a detection instead (see [Alerts and Detections](/configuration/review#alerts-and-detections)). -By default Frigate uses **smart streaming**: a camera's image updates roughly once per minute while nothing is happening, and switches to a full live stream the moment activity is detected. This conserves bandwidth and resources. You can change this per camera or per group (see [Streaming settings](#streaming-settings-and-the-right-click-menu) below), and the behavior is explained in detail under [Live view technologies](/configuration/live#live-view-technologies). +By default Frigate uses **smart streaming**: a camera's image updates roughly once per minute while nothing is happening, and switches to a full live stream the moment activity is detected. This conserves bandwidth and resources. You can change this for each camera when using a camera group (see [Streaming settings](#streaming-settings-and-the-right-click-menu) below), and the behavior is explained in detail under [Live view technologies](/configuration/live#live-view-technologies). On mobile, a toggle in the header switches between a **grid** layout and a single-column **list** layout. On desktop a **fullscreen** button is available in the lower-right corner. @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ The icon rail (top-left on desktop, a horizontal strip on mobile) switches betwe - The **home** icon is the **All Cameras** dashboard, which shows every camera enabled for the dashboard. - Each **camera group** you create appears as its own icon. Selecting a group shows only that group's cameras. -Camera groups are useful for organizing cameras by location (for example, _Front of House_ or _Backyard_) and for giving each group its own dashboard layout and streaming preferences. +Camera groups are useful for organizing cameras by location (for example, _Front of House_ or _Backyard_) and for giving each group its own dashboard layout and camera streaming preferences. You can also view [Birdseye](/configuration/birdseye) on the dashboard, or open it directly at `http://:5000/#birdseye`. Clicking a camera inside the Birdseye view jumps to that camera's live feed. diff --git a/web/src/components/config-form/section-configs/detect.ts b/web/src/components/config-form/section-configs/detect.ts index 9176c49a74..4213a68448 100644 --- a/web/src/components/config-form/section-configs/detect.ts +++ b/web/src/components/config-form/section-configs/detect.ts @@ -116,6 +116,7 @@ const detect: SectionConfigOverrides = { messageKey: "configMessages.detect.fpsGreaterThanFive", severity: "info", position: "after", + docLink: "/frigate/camera_setup#choosing-a-detect-frame-rate", condition: (ctx) => { if (ctx.level !== "camera" || !ctx.fullCameraConfig) return false; if (ctx.fullCameraConfig.type === "lpr") return false;