Local Security Camera Recording with Frigate NVR 

Its also worth noting that on the add-on page if you dont see frigate listed you need to clear your browser cache or open a new connection in a private browser tab so that it will populate. This goes for any newly installed add-ons, try this first before deeper troubleshooting. Saved me some serious headaches lol.

You are damn good to get us non experienced users to get the grip! I love your videos! Can you please make a video on how to use external storage on Frigate in docker. I have been googling alot on how to make my docker compose file written to be able to connect to a nfs share on my synology nas. Please.

Love this series! I ditched blue iris for frigate and never looked back!

Unifi are a good camera, but I have found them to be expensive for what they are also and the RTSP stream is not always reliable from Unifi Protect, depending on what they do in the next firmware update. If you have Unifi Protect cameras, I would just recommend by a Cloudkey Gen 2+ and use the Protect software. If you have a Google Coral TPU, that will dramatically reduce the CPU Usage on your NVR, though they are still close to impossible to buy. Frigate is the most accurate I have used, better than Deepstack with Blue Iris and better than any onboard camera AI I ahve tested. Mine does get a false positive, but I corrected with masking as it is a shadow from a tree that gets picked up as "human" due to it's shape. Other than that, so far no false positives and also so far less missed events than other solutions.

Frigate is obviously a great product because so many of the HA youtubers I follow praise it, but I just cannot get past the hassle of installing. 2 hours of tearing my hair out and googling vague error messages or troubleshooting white space so far to get to a point that a single web page config editor should have been able to do for me within 5 minutes of loading the docker image. I'm using Agent DVR at the moment, which has HA integration and actually has a nice if cluttered GUI install, but I wanted to see what Frigate has in addition to offer. The answer seems to be nothing unless you have hours to spend and enjoy typing in vi - and that's not me any more I'm afraid.

For the docker setup the permissions on the files in those volumes are important or you will have problems with playback.

I've got to Amcrest PTZ IP cameras and I'm fairly happy with them.

Thanks for this, very useful and will be on my to-do list.

Thanks for doing this. I had a really hard time setting this up before, but after following this I was finally able to get it up and running. Do you happen to know how to get audio to the cameras ? I checked on the Frigate page and I tried adding in the code, but it didn't work. I must be doing something wrong. Any ideas?

The creating a config file shapter is changed. On the site it says now configuring go2rtc. The configuring MQTT server explain is gone. How to slove this with Home Assist addon?

great video - thanks... got it up and running... but want to change the location of where records are stored... I added this to the config: record: enabled: True path: /media/CCTV/ but it won't start up saying, cameras -> mycam -> record -> path extra fields not permitted (type=value_error.extra) Any ideas!? Thanks

What are your cameras connected to, a switch that's plugged into your NUC?

h265 works fine with frigate for recording, the issue playing back files. since only apple devices support native h265 playback. most browsers do not. windows and android do not.

1:59 and those are 2 of many damn good reasons to go local.

Watching some of your other videos on NVR, which do you prefer...frigate or blue iris with deepstack and the AI helper. Sticking to docker as much as possible. I understand BI will need to run on a windows PC or VM

Hi thanks for the great content. Dam I’ve got those Reolink h265 too, which camera did you go with.

Superb. You definitely earned my sub.

Hello there!!! great tutorial !!! Can you please tell me why i couldn't install the docker container.... it always sent a message in the logs that killing the signal and exit

I love the video, but is it possible to add Nest cameras? I am not able to find the RTSP URL for those.

great video , how do you take a clip that you want to retain from HAS and copy it to another HDD?

How did you know what the rtsp url was? Other than ofc the ip of the camera. Can't figure out that last suffix 😅

Q: how you handle PTZ Control with different PoE Camera in HA?

most cameras has built in mic and speaker .can I use this functions to speak with comers in door front

I can't seem to figure out how to save the recording to an External HDD. I've plugged in the HDD to my NUC running Home Assistant, but how do I tell Frigate to save the recording on the HDD instead of the NUC HDD?

Please help, I am struggling with getting frigate to work in docker. I have been trying for weeks. If it’s possible can you do a one to one with me and I will pay for your time to get this installed and working please

Nice video. I've just got Frigate (reasonably) stable on my rpi4, but it's making me want to upgrade to a faster PC since I can't get a coral anywhere.

Possibility to change the source folder where frigate files are located (clips, recordings and snapshots)

Thanks! 👍and subscribed.

will frigate work on rpi4 8gb on ssd 128gb with HAOS? i need only for 2x cams...

Currently considering running Frigate connected to HA. My home network is a Mesh Wifi with wireless backhaul to primary router. Do you see any issue with simply adding a mesh node with LAN ports nearby where I want my cameras to be, and running the cameras via the LAN ports there with POE injectors (or POE switch connected to the LAN port of a mesh node)? Or is a wireless camera possible and stable with Frigate?

Freaking awesome. Thank you again.

Is the Brand Frigate from chyyyna?

Should I stay away from Reolink ecosystem if i want to use frigate? I am interested in the Doorbell and a few of their 8MP rotating cameras

Thx for the great tutorials keep it coming!! Since you are also using unifi camera's i cannot get it to work the image always stays green and its throwing me errors on frigate.video ERROR : ffmpeg process is not running. exiting capture thread... Any help?

Good video! Question though... I currently have HA running on a Pi4. If I want to use Frigate do I need to upgrade my HA hardware, or should I run Frigate on a separate computer and the Pi will still be ok?

I got 2 Reolink rlc-810a and a rlc-822a only "65. Is this still a NO go? :( And thanks for the nice video! I want to run Home assitant on my Unraid server. Is it best to run Frigate "inside" HA or on Unraid itself?

Love the concept of the series, but I'm concerned that you didn't frontload your viewers realistic expectations of how CPU taxing frigate AI detection is if you don't have an edge TPU. I imagine this will be talked about in the next video but given that finding an edge TPU is practically impossible right now it makes the AI features of frigate basically useless without serious compute power. The frigate devs even say in the beginning of the documentation that CPU detect is not recommended and only meant for testing purposes.

I'm running a bare minimum system, old dual core AMD/64 WITH 2 GIGS OF RAM. Docker-compose setup. Trying to decide on a light camera solution. I already have 6 cameras two 720p and 4 Sd... I don't want to tax my HA server too much... My choices appear to be. He's Foscam integration (which would offer pan/tilt with no recording), Friggate, Motioneye, or Zoneminder. Could I use Friggate without the AI overhead on this hardware??? I am running HA on a 1T drive so I have local fast storage space..

How do you get by the fact that Windows is not designed to be on 24/7 it restarts for updates every few days no matter what you’re doing.

This is my next project 👏

Hello, anyone can suggest a good camera that can use an open source firmware?

Did you have to change any settings on your Unifi Protect cameras to get the rtsp playback to work? I can't get them to stream in VLC, much less Frigate. I get no response. No error. Not anything. I saw that a lot of people are having issues with rtsp since a recent Unifi update. Unfortunately there are dozens of different ways they've tried to work around it, but nothing seems useful to me. Did you need to configure anything to get the rtsp feed to work?

i want to use 5 Poe cameras but home assistant and frigate server PC has 2 NIC. how to connect them? Poe switch or what?

I had to add the retain x amount of days to get constant recording to work

Hello, do you know if it is possible to use a zigbee motion sensor (or other) to start recording/snapshots instead of the internal detector?

I am curious as to what is the advantage over Protect and how did you get your Unifi cameras to run without it. Protect comes with my Dream machine ,integrates directly with HA and does pretty much the same ,except maybe true live stream in HA ,there is a delay both in the glance card or when streaming.

can you send the link for the website that you copied the url from?

The don't get a x265 camera I know is right , you can record in x265 , but not play it back unless you re-encode it to x264.

Louis, sorry - VLC Media Player??

@5:07 How powerful the CPU should be? Can you give specs? Thanks.

I love frigate, I just wish the mobile experience was a bit better.

at 7.20 I think the new file should be figate.yml not frigate.yaml ?

Can Rasberry Pi 4 handle it?

Nice tutorial, but I would like to set up Frigate independent from HA on UnRaid and have Frigate Proxy feed from UnRaid to HA. I can find no info on how to do this.

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Hi I have taken your advice and ordered an raspberry pi. Eagerly waiting for it to be delivered . My first project would be your reminding to take cloth out of washing machine one. I might need lot of help since i have never used home assistant or raspberry pi. I will be in touch with lot questions for now just raring to jump in to home assistant

i just get a green screen from the camera

CAN YOU TALK. HOME CAMERAS SPECIFICALLY? BEST FOR HOME VIDEO STORAGE, GREAT VIDEO IMAGE, UP TO 45FEET IS WHAT I NEED. AS BUDGET FRIENDLY AS POSSIBLE. 1/2 CAMERAS CBLE MOUNT AND GIVE FEW THAT ARE BEST WIFI. LOCAL STORAGE (NO CLOUD). I AM DISABLED ON BUDGET. BUT NEED FOR ME AND SOME FOR WIDOWED ELDERLY LADY HOUSE..

Not "hard wired". Please learn the difference.