FRIGATE NVR Part 3 - Actionable Notifications and Dashboard Cards

[@DonParlor]

Thank you Chris I followed your tutorial and managed to set this up! My biggest issue was getting a feed from my Nest Doorbell but I managed to do it after some tweaks. Frigate is a very powerful tool, I'm very impressed! Now I will need to figure out when and if I need a USB Coral.

[@mostlychris]

Good job! It's not IF you need one. It's WHEN can I get one. Seems this are VERY hard to find these days.

[@Zbyszekakaduk]

Hello Chris! :) I started playing with the home assistant only two months ago. Crazy learning in a fast pace :). I've done something in domoticz before, but that's not it. Initially watching your videos I couldn't understand what you were talking about, and my poor English didn't help :) Recently it dawned on me and I started to understand what you are talking about. But, it cost me a lot of extra learning. Watch many similar tutorials. In my opinion, your presentation of the topic of Frigate is the most thorough and systematic, you can capture details that are important and helpful. Others just show how to get the image. I meant the interpretation of the image with the use of cameras in home automation. The frigate turned out not so difficult with your help. Thank you. I would love for a film to be made about face recognition in the sense of launching an action that would have its finale in opening the garage door and closing it after scanning the registration plate. If I understand everything correctly, frgata could do this task. If not, please tell me if I'm right. Greetings from Poland . Zbyszek.

[@mostlychris]

Thanks for watching and for the compliments. Frigate+ has number plate recognition according to the docs. I'll play around with it.

[@hillebrandstreet1882]

thank you so much for super great video and demo on how to add the extra`s with frigate use :)

[@mostlychris]

Thanks! You're very welcome!

[@peterdierckx6703]

hello chris. thanks again and as usual looking forward to next video

[@mostlychris]

Thanks for watching!

[@GJHuman]

My Device drop down list is empty (around 06:20 in the video). Any advice? I have the HA app on my phone and it works in my local network. What is the "official Home Assistant app"?

[@mostlychris]

You can download the HA app from the play/apple store. Once you install it and register it to your HA instance, it will show in HA as a notification device.

[@Kiloptero]

thanks again chris! a question.. im moving to a house.. looking for cameras and the reolink looks great.. due the constrain of chips its dif to get a coral.. its really needed to have a good frigate system?

[@bluegizmo1983]

I was using WebRTC card to stream my frigate cameras, but I've since switched to the actual Frigate card (installed from HACS). It's better. It still uses WebRTC when you install both (if you want it to), but it has more features specific to Frigate.

[@mostlychris]

I need to try that. The WebRTC option I am using now is simply a hook into the cameras RTSP streams so if the Frigate card does it better, then I might switch.

[@bluegizmo1983]

@@mostlychris yeah the Frigate card does it exactly the same if you use the WebRTC option in the card, but the frigate card also give you quick access to all saved clips and snapshots as well as the live view, via an expandable menu overlay system on the card.

[@mostlychris]

Exactly what I need. Is the card in HACS?

[@bluegizmo1983]

@@mostlychris yup! It's under the Frontend section of HACS though not the Integration section, and it's called "Frigate Card"

[@mostlychris]

Lol. I already had it installed. I'm going to add it to a dash now to see what it does. Thanks!

[@rommario55]

Thank you Chris. Where can I find the editor to modify frigate_notification.yaml?

[@chrisdenny]

Thanks, Chris! I finally have Frigate sending notitfications to my phone. Do you know if there is a way to set an automation to monitor for people AND dogs at the same time? I realize I can make two automations, but I don't want to notifications when we are taking the dogs out.

[@simoneatough6391]

I have migrated across tot he V9 beta. Big UI improvements. Still need to do the datactl move though

[@mostlychris]

Oh wow! I'm just reading about it now. I *was* going to to a WebRTC video to watch live streams but it appears v9 takes care of this.

[@walkaway6212]

Wireless cameras are Slow and ez to jam. Is there way to use wired cameras?

[@rkbest9783]

Chris , in my setup I don’t see any camera entity for the grid card. I have a stand-alone frigate with frigate proxy add on to access. I started getting notifications with no picture but error 404.

[@mostlychris]

You need to have the frigate integration installed. Additionally, you may need to have the MQTT stuff running.

[@kubectlgetpo]

Thank you!

[@mostlychris]

You're welcome!

[@MarkGhali]

ugh! youtube comments keep disappearing! Chris There is a great custom hass-frigate-card in HACS. I would love to see you do a quick video on it as a part 4.

[@mostlychris]

Great suggestion! I've got it installed but was having issues with the frigate URL setting originally. I'll get back into it.

[@MarkGhali]

@@mostlychris yes I was having the same issue! Curious how you fix it?

[@mostlychris]

I'll let you know when I do.

[@sjnllp]

Hi Mate, how is that the picture glance card in black & white and turn to color when motion is detected? was looking for a option but couldn't find one, is it something you have written? I am using the camera created for the person object

[@mostlychris]

You have to use the binary sensor that gets tripped (or state changes to on) when the camera detects motion. Frigate creates motion sensors when the integration is installed so you should see one. There should actually a sensor for each type of object you are configured to detect (person, dog, cat, car, etc).

[@Mickenaslund]

Hello ! I only get one camera to work in home assistant frigate. How do you get several to work?

[@mostlychris]

You need to configure each camera in the config file and you also need to make sure your cameras are compatible.

[@Mickenaslund]

@@mostlychris Hello! Is it that simple that if it works on the rtsp stream in the vlc player and I cut the rtsp stream into frigate.yml and it doesn't work, have I then done a compatibility test?

[@PapaiNerdBR]

Perfect Chris! Thanks for everything! Just one question? Do you trust frigate to control all the cameras instead of blueiris? Any way of do face recognition on frigate?

[@mostlychris]

I never got Deepstack with BI to recognize faces but I wasn't super interested in that anyway. I haven't played with that on Frigate. For my use case, I have been on Frigate with BI turned off for at least a month. Does everything BI did (that I used it for anyway) with no issues. I use the WebRTC stuff to stream live when needed. It's nice that the PC running BI is no longer heating up the office space by running BI 24/7.

[@fredamn76]

I cannot get it working. Is it the default camera we should use or the one for person detection? What camera name is it we use, entity-id?

[@mostlychris]

What is not working?

[@m843ii]

Would you mind posting the code to your custom button card for the motion sensor?

[@mostlychris]

Here is the whole dashboard. Look for the custom: button-card entries. github.com/mostlychris/homeassistant/blob/master/office_tablet_dashboard

[@TubeSkaterRudy]

I am stuck at making the picture-glance cards because I can't find any camera entities: it says: No matching entities found, any idea someone?

[@mostlychris]

Do you have the frigate integration installed? That is what makes the camera entities.

[@TubeSkaterRudy]

@@mostlychris Thanks Chris. I already found out but still good to have this post up so it could be helpfull for anyone else.

[@vento3232]

Hi Chris! is it possible to have those Frigate alerts enabled only during certain hours of the day? and for example, not getting the alerts pushed if someone is home and it's daytime

[@mostlychris]

You can set conditions in the automation to only fire during certain windows. You can also add conditions to only fire if an entity is in a certain state (your location is away for example). So the answer is yes.

[@vento3232]

@@mostlychris even if this automation is based on a blueprint? I didn't find this option to add anything besides what the blueprint offers

[@mostlychris]

@@vento3232 OH! Well in that case.... you would have to modify the blueprint or add conditions. Depending on the blueprint complexity, you could add conditions during certain phases of the automation but you'd need to disect the automation to figure out where to put the conditions. This one is pretty complex.

[@daphbobo]

thanks for the Frigate tutorial. I got everything working except camera view on dashboard is always color.. motion detection button changes color and camera snapshot changes to the most recent one.. but cam view always stay in color.. i couldnt figure out why

[@FeroMind]

make sure that in the picture-glance card, you have the motion binary sensor set as the "state entity" not just under "Entities"

[@daphbobo]

@@FeroMind thanks, that fixed it. binary sensor was missing in the state entity.

[@mostlychris]

Thanks @FeroMind for the fix!

[@hundsboog]

I wonder, if there would be a way to take this snapshots frigate does and send it to the mobile via telegram messenger....

[@mostlychris]

There is a discussion about this on the Frigate Blueprint page. Not sure of the final outcome but I know it was tossed around as an option by modifying the blueprint.

[@monte8176]

Hi, I have installed Frigate and use Google Coral USB. Since installing Google Coral USB, HomeAssistant often crashes and I have to restart it. Can you give me some advice?

[@mostlychris]

What do the logs say? What kind of hardware are you runing this on? How many cameras? What kind of load is showing on your system overall (under supervisor). Could be so many things.

[@monte8176]

​ @@mostlychris I installed HomeAssistant with Google Coral USB on Raspberry PI4 64bit with HD SSD 256GB. I have configured 5 cameras and the Frigate's CPU usage is around 30% with both Google Coral USB and without. Under supervisor CPU usage is 0.1% and RAM usage 1.7% Thanks

[@mostlychris]

Not sure if you can get to your core logs under supervisor when this happens but might be worth a try. There might be an interaction with another add-on or a hardware issue. It's interesting to note that you are not seeing any difference with Coral installed. That doesn't make sense. Have you configured frigate.yml to use the Coral?

[@joes_drone]

Anyone else added the "blueprint" for notifications but it is just not working? I even just added simple data in like - camera to use & device to send the notification to but when you "Run Action" nothing happens

[@mostlychris]

Have you traced it to see where it is stopping?

[@joes_drone]

@@mostlychris I have checked and it says "stopped because of unknown reason"null" - i assume you cannot click the "Run Actions" for testing? this just displays "This node was not executed and so no further trace information is available." i'll go see if i can manually trigger it as i have created a zone on the postbox so i get an alert into my home office when the postman puts mail into the Postbox Thanks for the help so far

[@mostlychris]

That was going to be my suggestion. Trigger it with a real alert and check the trace to see where it stops.

[@Berthwk01]

frigate working, camera working, but in home assistant there is no camera.name.person

[@mostlychris]

Do you have the frigate integration installed in Home Assistant?

[@Berthwk01]

@@mostlychris yes