Image entities with zone (camera_zone_object and zone_object)

[Mincka]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
It would be great to have image entities per object type for each zone (of each camera or globally).

Currently, they are created per object type for each camera.
The issue is that you may not want to update the image when the object is not in the zone you want.
Also, you may want the latest object event in a specific zone that is covered by multiple cameras.

image.camera_zone_object
Use case: I have one camera in the garden, but I would like to show on my dashboard the latest image of someone in the garden zone, not in the crop_field zone.

image.zone_object
Since we have sensors for zones (occupancy and count), I think it could be great to also have image.
Use case: I would like to show on my dashboard the image of the latest person in my garden with two cameras pointing to it.

Describe the solution you'd like
Create additional entities with this format (camera_zone_object):

• image.frontyard_street_car
• image.frontyard_street_person
• image.frontyard_driveway_car
• image.frontyard_driveway_person

Create additional entities with this format (camera_zone_object):

• image.street_car
• image.street_person
• image.driveway_car
• image.driveway_person

Describe alternatives you've considered
Snapshot manually the camera entity on MQTT event.

Additional context
None

[NickM-27]

The issue is that you may not want to update the image when the object is not in the zone you want.

This can already be controlled by MQTT -> required_zones in the frigate config

[Mincka]

I am not sure how it would help for this specific issue.
I am already doing MQTT filtering myself based on the zone and other attributes of the payload to trigger the alarm.

Do you mean that using required_zones in the MQTT section would change how the integration is updating the image entity of a camera?

Like I wrote, as an alternative solution, I can snapshot the camera for a specific zone and save it somewhere as camera_zone_person_latest.jpg. Or more precisely, use the image_best_snapshot of the latest event that matched my criteria, and again, save it somewhere as the latest one.

[NickM-27]

along with snapshot -> required_zones and record -> events -> required_zones frigate also has mqtt -> required_zones which controls what zones an object must enter to update the mqtt image entity.

[Mincka]

Ok thank you. That's not what I need because the image and zone I need depend on the scenario.
E.g.: MQTT image used by Double Take for processing, but not in a specific zone while I'd like an image of the latest person in a specific zone on my HA dashboard.

[PablaV]

I second this request..

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