[Config Support]: Storing event/motion clips in a separate folder; or uploading them to a cloud provider

[aeronautjohn]

Describe the problem you are having

Howdy folks!

So I have Frigate running as a Home Assistant add-on in my RV. It runs just a single camera, pretty simple setup. I store my RV off-site so I like being able to check on it remotely and have the motion detection.

The RV has a cellular internet connection that is unlimited; but de-prioritizes me after 50GB. That can be pretty quickly eaten up by nightly backups of the /media folder. But I don't want to rely on only local copies of files. If the RV were stolen and the 12v power disconnected or the modem damaged or something like that; or the RPi itself nabbed from out of it; I wouldn't have any way to access anything.

So ideally, what I want to happen is to not backup any of the clips on my nightly Google Drive backups; but to immediately upload any events/motion detection clips to a cloud provider.

Is there a way to accomplish this?

Version

0.13.2-6476f8a

Frigate config file

mqtt:
  enabled: true
  host: core-mosquitto
  user: [REDACTED]
  password: [REDACTED]

ffmpeg:
  hwaccel_args: preset-rpi-64-h264


record:
  enabled: true
  retain:
    days: 7
    mode: motion
  events:
    retain:
      default: 30
      mode: motion

snapshots:
  enabled: true
  retain:
    default: 30

cameras:
  [REDACTED]:
    ffmpeg:
      inputs:
      - path: rtsp://[REDACTED]
        roles:
        - detect
    motion:
      mask:
        - 1694,136,2304,157,2304,0,1680,0

Relevant log output

N/A

Frigate stats

No response

Operating system

HassOS

Install method

HassOS Addon

Object Detector

CPU (no coral)

Any other information that may be helpful

No response

[NickM-27]

this could be done using mqtt, listening for the end of the event and then generating an export and uploading it to gdrive or whatever

[aeronautjohn]

How might I accomplish that? I'm pretty new to the Home Assistant thing, and Frigate for that matter.

EDIT: Plus; if I wait for "end", that could potentially leave me with that security gap. RV's getting stolen is fairly rare but something that has happened in this area is people breaking in and trying to steal anything of value. If I want for the 'end' command via MQTT, couldn't they potentially be in there for 15 minutes, grab the RPi (little box plugged into stuff; might be valuable for all they know!) and then I'm just SoL?

[NickM-27]

the end command comes per object, if you didn't wait until the end then you would have to upload the same clip multiple times