Question about frigate and HA networking storage

[ovizii]

I have it working, but there seems to have been an issue recently, where the samba share where frigate saves its media "broke" or became unavailable.

The result seems to be that frigate then simply saves into the folder where the share used to be mounted.
After a period of time, I notice the problem but now I can't mount the network storage as it is not empty, meaning I have to stop frigate, move the content of frigate's media folder to the share, then connect the share and restart frigate.

Currently, I have set up an automation to inform me as soon as the share becomes disconnected with this binary sensor:

# pve01 share on /media/frigate mounted
  - sensor:
      name: SMB frigate mounted
      command: "df -h | grep -q '/media/frigate' && echo '1' || echo '0'"
      value_template: '{{ value }}'
      scan_interval: 60

The question boils down to is there a better way to prevent frigate from saving media when the network storage is unmounted?

[banthungprong]

I think the better way to prevent this would be providing a stable network share.

[ovizii]

The network is stable, HA runs in a VM, the samba share runs on the host as a docker container, but there still are situations, i.e. if I update the samba container or restart it for some reason, I just have to make sure to stop frigate beforehand.

[NickM-27]

The question boils down to is there a better way to prevent frigate from saving media when the network storage is unmounted?

this all occurs on the host, Frigate has no control over this behavior. If you were running on docker then you could configure docker to stop when the share stops, but since you are running in an addon you'd need HA to implement this

[ovizii]

Thanks for suggesting how to change the environment for the better. That is not a solution for me at the moment.

Given the situation, that frigate runs on HA as an add-on, is there a better way to handle this than what I described above?

[ovizii]

oh, btw, I am looking into adding some code to my automation above to stop the frigate add-on, then send me the notification. That would work for me.