Show camera names in preview thumbnails and live player / event player

[nikosch86]

I keep asking myself which camera I am looking at, especially with zoomed in / detailed shots (doorways, walkways, etc).
It would be helpful to have a small "label" or text in the preview thumbnails on the live and review pages as well as when clicking one of those thumbnails and viewing the live camera or event.
It is possible to unobtrusively show the camera name in the thumbnails and make use of dead space above the live and event player, so the UI does not get cluttered by this change.

I have seen this question or similar suggestions come up every now and then, usually the suggestion is to use the camera itself to produce an overlay text or use the context menu, for me that doesn't scale well, visually and operationally.

I forked the repo and made the changes so I have that added usability right away, I just wanted to float the idea here and show that it can be achieved with minimal code changes and without interference with anything else in the code.
My plan is to keep these changes in a branch and trail the releases, since the changes are minimal I expect this to be doable for the foreseeable future.
https://github.com/nikosch86/frigate/tree/camera-name-in-views

For anyone that wants to give this a try, I am publishing the images using the existing github actions:
https://github.com/nikosch86/frigate/releases/tag/v0.16.0-camera-name-in-views
To try it out you can just run the branch image with your current deployment and see if you like it.

The current changeset vs the 0.16 release:
https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate/compare/v0.16.0...nikosch86:frigate:camera-name-in-views?expand=1

Updated for current release
https://github.com/nikosch86/frigate/releases/tag/v0.16.1-camera-name-in-views

[NickM-27]

The general problem isn't the code changes, it is taking up space on top of the images, camera stream, etc. as this space is valuable and generally best used for the camera itself.

Also in general while some have shared this, especially with large camera setups, most feedback has shown users know what camera is what.

This could of course become an option in frigate, but we want to avoid having options to tweak little details of the webui as that becomes a lot to maintain as we add new UI features and adjust existing ones.

So, because most cameras (especially those that frigate recommends) support this by itself, that is the recommendation

[nikosch86]

I have actually placed the labels in "dead space" that is not used by any other text or labels in the stream.
The thumbnails just have the text overlayed, similar to how it would look like when the stream has a name embedded by the camera itself.

I attached some screenshots of my cat monitoring test setup here at home.

[nikosch86]

Updated for current release https://github.com/nikosch86/frigate/releases/tag/v0.16.1-camera-name-in-views