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I can't even fine tune anything anymore. I have no stats on size or %. So I'm flying blind since 0.14 release. Bounding box is also gone. New UI is nice as it becomes more usable but I have no information to work with. I didn't think it was that hard to have some stats written some where. How far is 0.15????? I keep getting birds trigger it. |
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0.15 adds this information and more , there should be a beta within the next month or so |
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His points of criticism on the UI seem not that bad and quite fixable to me and are very specific to his exapmle use case "someone got murdered a while ago, and I don't remeber which day of the week it happened". I agree though, that some of the Buttons and Symbols are not very intuitive (at least in the review area especially on the mobile ui). But you learn where to click after a while. He also criticitzes the missing scores on events, but those where only showing the score of the events screen shot, not the whole event itselt, or am I wrong? So nothing to base your config fine tuning on(?). Also, I cannot reproduce the long loading times he experiences. The UI feels very responsive to me. |
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Right, the daily review flow is what the new UI mainly addresses right now. The next version of Frigate already has a new Explore page implemented to address this and many other use cases.
that is incorrect, the score shown in the UI itself was the highest median score of the object which is what is used for threshold filter. |
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I could have made a similar video with all the complaints for 0.13.2 too. Massive empty portion of the screen and tiny thumbnails in the events list on desktop. You cant "find" much there without clicking to expand each event, and many of them overlap with some lasting for hours and hours. No ability scan through time periods and look for missed objects. Watching a nights worth of footage at 8x speed was painful. It seems to me like most of the complaints are feature gaps that we knew were being created in the first version of the new UI. These weren't arbitrary changes dreamed up by a UX designer. We and many others used the dev builds daily for months for the specific use cases we intended to address first. We didn't get it all right. It will continue to improve. It is helpful to hear from users what they do and don't like about the new UI. |
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At the end of the day, change affects all of us. I’ll admit, I wasn’t a fan of the new UI at first either. But once I took the time to understand its functionality and potential, I’ve grown to really appreciate it. The work Blake, Nick, Josh, and the rest of the contributors have put in is truly impressive. From personal experience, I can say that many of the features I missed from the old UI are being integrated into the new version. We just need to be patient. |
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The new UI is what finally allowed us to drop Blue Iris entirely and move to Frigate. It saves a lot of time and is easier to use. We are looking forward to see what is coming in the next version. |
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I prefer the new layout. I didn't at first but I cant even remember how the old layout works anymore. I like being able to review events for the day and export what is important. Mobile use is better as well. Definitely some things that could be improved but overall it serves its purpose and works well. |
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I c/wouldn't go back. Some things I hope/am sure will improve with the new UI but it is so much better for daily use. Draggable timeline is a huge win for me and so much faster scanning a days events than before. |
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Eh, mixed feelings. I mainly use mobile, and the timeline view is more or less useless, just a squiggly line, looks like a random histogram. And the layout on mobile is busted, e.g. timeline covers video, you zoom in and then have to find just the right area to zoom back out. Stuff like that. But I'd say those are implementation details easily fixed, overall I like the approach |
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The yellow lines on the timeline show the motion levels that that particular time. Also if the timeline is covering the video then you should report a bug, we've not gotten any reports of that |
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I certainly see some major feature gaps with the new UI, but that was absolutely to be expected with a full re-write. Unlike so many UI updates (cough Microsoft cough) that change things just for the sake of change, I see this change as a step in the absolutely correct direction. It is without a doubt an improvement, and I only see it improving more as the feature gaps are filled in. The fact that I can now give my Wife access to this interface and actually expect her to be able to find useful information is a VAST improvement over the previous interface, which I was afraid to show to anyone who wasn't technically inclined. Keep up the good work guys, I very much appreciate it all. |
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The new UI is a complete messed up. It reminds me about windows vista, when Microsoft was claiming how good vista was. |
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This is an example of completely unconstructive feedback that holds no value. |
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Lol. You have no idea what you're talking about. If you don't like it, fine, maybe you could make specific suggestions or point out specific issues like many people have here. Suggesting that no one uses it if they like it just makes you appear unreasonable and ignorant. |
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@bubba925, @hinyzard123: It might sound unconstructive, unreasonable or ignorant. but that's an honest user review. For constructive, reasonable and informed commentary please go through the video he made. I have same concerns. May be this UI made for high IQ level person like Elon musk or you. it also could be a breakthrough like- Space-X boosted landing, but to me a normal regulars user its a complete messed up of a good app. I'm even unable to revert back to old version (using addon on HA). Feeling pain every day while using new UI. |
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I think the issue people have with your comment, is that you haven't described what is messed up, or not working for you. As a 'normal regulars user' what is it that you want to see Frigate do that it is not doing currently? |
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There are things I like about the redesign - creating/modify masks is 1000% easier/quicker than with 13.2 However, other routine tasks such as reviewing events takes much longer to complete. I prefer the old event viewer as it is quicker to get the information I needed so I could move on to another task. Just open the page on my phone, scroll, I could even get everything done using only my thumb. It was quick. I find reviewing items in the redesign to be tedious. Even with version 15 beta, you are list items horizontally, so you then have to select an item to get more information (if it is shown), then reach over and hit back to return to previous page. It's tedious and slow. If the item isn't shown then you are selecting options from drop downs etc - it just takes way too long. I also prefer the smaller thumbnails vs the large snapshots as the large snapshots are pixelated and don't show well on my phone. I also find that a screen full of large snapshots is too bright at night on the phone. I'd be happy if you just copied the event page from 13.2 to 15. It gave all the information quickly that a power user would need. I don't think the functionality of that page needed to be improved. |
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This was one of the biggest deals for us as it greatly speeds up the day to day review process. Maybe some users with issues don't know this is possible since the UI doesn't really show you to do that? |
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Like the person in the video, I'm talking about reviewing items on a phone. I agree with the reviewer about the old event viewer - all the information was there, zones, % confidence, etc. And you could quickly scroll through items to find the information you needed. It was quick and easy. I've got most of the functionality back of the 13.2 event viewer on 15 by using the Frigate card in HA but I can't submit to plus & it doesn't show % confidence. But I use it because it's quick for me to review items, and with the smaller thumbnails I can quickly focus on the information in the picture.
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right, you can swipe from left to right to view the video preview on mobile without needing to tap
In 0.15 all of that information is visible using the
it's also worth asking to better understand, why do you care specifically what zone the object entered? If you have configured alerts and detections correctly according to your needs then you are guaranteed that an alert is something that happened in a zone you care about and a detection is something that happened in a zone you don't care about. What need is there a need for more specificity at a glance? |
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:) That's a hard one to answer. Let me put it this way - some people who drive a car would be happy with just a speedometer and a green light on the dashboard that shows everything is running ok. Other people would like a dashboard that has the tachometer, battery gauge, temperature sensors, gear information etc. Why? Personal choice So in my event viewer I like to be able to see what's happening under the hood in Frigate quickly and efficiently. And the 13.2 event viewer allowed me to do that. edit: I just want to add that for me, it's just this one item that I miss in the new design. Otherwise I like the redesign and overall the work all the developers have done on Frigate is impressive. |
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Thank you for the responses, they are helpful in better understanding different user's use cases, needs, etc. |
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I think the 0.14 UI is a vast improvement over 0.13. I will admit though that when I first saw it I wasn't sure. One point - I am still discovering features of the new UI. Just now I found out I could edit the camera group layout grid, because I was re-reading the 0.14 FAQ looking for something else. The one bit of feedback I'd therefore give is that 0.14 has included a load of new functionality, but it's not always obvious to even daily users. I know the obvious answer here is "read the manual/FAQ", but the reality is that I (like many people) tend to read user guides as a last resort - you just assume you can click around and discover things. In the example of camera group layout editing, I had never even noticed the three icons in the bottom right of the screen, (despite having viewed it hundreds of times) probably because it's quite an unusual place to put UI controls. Dark mode doesn't help here either. I might suggest moving those controls up to the top bar (which is where most other pages in the UI have them anyway).
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Having read through a lot of comments and talked to a few people who use this system. I think I might have an idea what the two different, competing, workflows might be. It seems like Workflow #1, is the type of person who has set up Alerts, integrated them with Home Assistant or some other type of notification system, and respond to and review detection events within the hour of their occurrence. This seems to be the workflow that the current UI layout is most designed to support. And for anyone who uses that kind of workflow, the new UI seems to be working out mostly well (aside from the lack of detailed information for the "How the Clock Works" crowd.) The other workflow, we'll call Workflow #2, seems to revolve around weekend warrior types. These are the people who don't have any type of immediate notification system setup, or don't have the ability or desire to review said notifications, until the weekend (or some much later date). These types of people generally just want to see what's been going on over the last week (or however long it's been since they last reviewed the logs), and the system as it currently stands does make it somewhat difficult to support this type of workflow. I think it would be possible to better support this type of workflow with some minor changes. Perhaps some better options to get quick and easy insight into the last X number of days detection and possibly motion events for a given camera or group of cameras. Anyway, thats my 1.99 (and 9/10ths of a cent) worth. |
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yep, like it says in the original post explaining the new UI, it aimed at the daily review workflow. The review page was never designed to work for the "I know something happened but not sure when" workflow. 0.15 already has a new Explore page that aims to solve this and many other use cases |
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Louis Rossmann recently made a video about how he prefers the old UI before 0.14.0 because of how practical it was and how it showed more information. He will stick with the 0.13.2 version and won't "upgrade". What are your thoughts about the new UI?
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