Frigate and Home Assistant

An indepth look at how Frigate integrates into Home Assistant.

Using the Frigate HACS integration we can look at our live video streams, and recorded snapshots and clips from object detections. We can also create automations that are triggered when objects are detected, or control Frigate from our automations.

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[BigJohn]

I have this down to a 4 step process:
1. Watch your tutorial
2. Go out (with no adult supervision) and totally screw things up.
3. Watch your video again
4. Put the train back on the tracks.
Your videos are crystal clear. My aging receptors are not.
Much appreciated!

[gooseza]

I can't thank you enough for all the effort you put into all your videos. Your attention to the complete process, end to end, with examples, is priceless.

[bat]

The go to guy is the automation guy when you need ideas for home automation. Love your channel

[chewybluetoffees]

I was looking for something like this about 6 months ago and couldn't find what I needed, I searched again recently and found you. These vids and your blog are awesome! Thanks for sharing

[rousehouse]

Hi, thank you for the excellent series on integrating Frigate into Home Assistant. These are the best videos I've found on the internet on the topic. Great content!

[jaredbater]

Great video series! This will save me so much time mucking around with HA now that my docker based Frigate install is working well. Cheers!!

[Rattikus]

Got my HikVisions installed and HASS, now for Frigate. Thank you for the video's!!

[rgrfrst]

Thank you Alan. You've filled in many of the missing pieces in my puzzle and joined up knowledge that was in different places (HA; Docker; Frigate). I'm left with a great sense of achievement eg here with Frigate. Your quality and detail is good. To help me find what I'm trying to do put a list of skills or content in your descriptions (eg adding a container to HA, access a USB device in Docker, configure a camera) . Do likewise on your blog (each skill is deserving a tag). These things help us find your stuff which so deserves its popularity.

[Import_Fails]

Hello Alan, I really like your videos because they are very informative for me as a beginner in Home Assistant. At the moment I am running HAOS on an Intel NUC. When I watched my first videos about HA I would have never thought that I had to do such a lot of installing, implementing, coding and failing. But I managed to setup the basics in the end. Then I saw some videos about Frigate and I remembered that I always wanted camera surveillance on my property. So I implemented Frigate to my HAOS installation but I quickly realized that I need a bit more space to store the data produced by Frigate than it is possible on my NUC with only a 256GB SSD. I read that it is not possible to mount external USB HD's under HAOS. For that I have to run HA and Frigate in Docker Containers but this adds another level of administrating my HA installation. So I found out that someone used udev rules to 'mount' an external HD to the HAOS installation. That sounded very interesting but I failed epically and ruined my HA installation. So I am done with that and I don't want to install everything on Docker Containers. So I got to the question if I can install Frigate on a seperate Hardware e.g. another Intel NUC and connect Frigate to my HAOS installation. Maybe you can tell me if this is possible and how to do it or maybe you know a source that has done it. Thank you and kind regards Michael.

[jeremy.wilson]

Fantastic stuff, got it all up and running with your help. Thanks for being clear, thorough, but still concise.

[jamegrabham]

Great video...very detailed for Frigate...thank you

[SergioBlackDolphin]

I am stucj at the frigate URL as it fails to connect!... aaarghh..

[NirreFirre]

I'm recommending people (IRL and here on YT/comments) to watch your excellent Frigate series, I would suggest that you make the titles more descriptive/selling and adjust/add something like "CCTV Home Assistant with Frigate - Part 1/3 Introduction, requirements and basic setup"

Even though you already have cameras, and your shout out to The Hook Up is good use of each of your channel's strengths, I do miss a video that talks about the pros and cons of different camera features, which ones are irrelevant when you plan to use Frigate (obviously object detection), which manufacturers are OEM or just rebranding generic low cost/quality ones, which ones are "open enough" to make full use of Frigate and Home Assistant etc. Perfect opportunity to collaborate?

Also, an episode of how easy it is destroying a consumer SSD with continuous writes with the "wrong" settings (in Proxmox, Docker, Home Assistant or Frigate) could be useful.. depending on how one's disks are organized, this may be a big risk in "everything in one server" setups..

[csteinbeck]

Great series of videos on Frigate and its integration into home assistant. Got me started and I managed to achieve my first automation - switching on the desk light when I sit down for work, based on a little esp32 cam's footage of my work place :). What didn't work for me is the wait-for-a-trigger. The action afterwards (switching the light off again when the occupancy goes to normal again) always happens instantaneously after the light is switched on. As if the wait-for-a-trigger is not waiting for anything :) Had to do a second automation for this.

[EdoDijkgraaf]

That anti-cat-system will be replicated soon! Love it!

[DanielFerreira-xwid]

that was polite to ask the cat to leave

[nrnoble]

I agree security surveillance is a deterrent, it raise the bar for criminals, thus they are more likely to go find a less risky target. As an HOA president, I can state that professional criminals will take that risk if they are going after high value items, such as cars. They know that most security cameras are not monitored live, thus time is on their side in the middle of the night. They are dressed so it nearly impossible to be identified after the fact. They have an exit plan and you should always assume they are armed, so even if are caught in the middle of a crime they will execute their plan.

[simonknight]

Question please - what floodlight are you using for the automation please? How do you recommend integrating that floodlight into HA?

Great video as always. Revisiting frigate as I’m moving house.

[fredamn]

Great video. Do you send Frigate notifications to a android tv? If so, how?

[fergusanderson]

Great channel - so valuable. Novice here just starting out with HA. Plan to install HA OS on a re-furb PC with i5 processor and 8mb RAM and 250GB SSD. I thought the general advice is to not use Virtual Box but turn over the whole PC to Linux HA. However I am confused about Frigate. If this PC is set up totally for Linux with HA Operating System, can Frigate be installed and run on this as well. Or do I have to leave the PC as windows and install HA in a virtual box, then have Frigate in windows on the same PC and make some kind of connection so the video data gets passed to HA within the virtual box?