@limpid peak You need to install Frigate first. The integration is for connecting an existing Frigate instance to HA. https://docs.frigate.video/frigate/installation
#Frigate Install
prime cloud
limpid peak
<@727245123557130360> You need to install Frigate first. The integration is for ...
Yea, I figured that out. Then I promptly broke it by adding the URL of an RTSP camera. It's not even showing anything in the log
Actually it works. But it's not good you edit the config, it says do you want to restart. And then it seems to crash and you have to go in and try to start it manuall
prime cloud
the UI doesn't let you save the config if it's invalid
limpid peak
This is not very good. I added the config for Coral TPU, walk away while it does it's 60 second restart thing and all I get is:
Bad gateway Error code 502
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2025-08-22 03:49:25 UTC
I go back:
Frigate
The add-on is not running. Do you want to start it now?
Then it works!?
Twice in a row
prime cloud
ah I assumed you were running HA Container since you mentioned running docker ps
limpid peak
Yes I go to the console of HAOS, type "login" and it takes you to a real shell
prime cloud
Sadly I don't think I'll be of much help since I don't run HA OS or Supervised
limpid peak
I enable detection, what happens next? It just magically makes detections?
prime cloud
By default, it will detect cars and people, but there are ways to configure that
recommend reading through the docs as there are tons of configuration options
limpid peak
I dunno, I walked by the camera and nothing happened. I don't want to enable recording and full up the disk, but it shows 0 alerts & 0 detections
prime cloud
again, you're going to want to read through the docs
limpid peak
Is there a quick start guide? I don't want to be trying to debug 1000 YAML Options just to see if this can even work
prime cloud
limpid peak
How many hours did you have to spend to have it show you something detected?
prime cloud
I originally set up Frigate years ago, so I don't totally remember, but I don't think it took long to have a basic setup going
configuring it to work precisely how you want to work can certainly take a while though
limpid peak
Do I need to record for it to detect? Or can it just watch the stream and log the detections?
untold sable
Check that you have the enabled flag set somewhere, either in the overall detect config, or at the camera level.
From the 0.16.* notes https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate/releases, if that's the version you're using.
