Home Assistant dashboard: Frigate
Frigate is a tool to analyze your video camera streams.
It can detect and store a snapshot and a video clip when it detects presence.
On this page, you can find how to add this data on your dashboard.
Website: https://frigate.video/
Table of Contents
Show live RTSP streams
You can add a direct livestream based on the rtsp url with the custom HACS integration WebRTC.
Repo: https://github.com/AlexxIT/WebRTC
There are a lot of possible settings possible, check this site for them.
Install this integration via this button in your own HA instance
# Dashboard card code
type: custom:webrtc-camera
url: rtsp://username:password@<ip-address:port>/h264Preview_01_main
Show MP4 video clips
Frigate provides for each event a MP4 movie via the api.
- Api format: http://ip-address:port/api/
/ /clip.mp4 - Api example: http://192.168.1.2:5000/api/camera_1/person/clip.mp4
With some HTML you can include the video on your dashboard.
This doesn’t work with the default Markdown integration, but it works with the custom HACS integration Lovelace HTML card.
Repo: https://github.com/PiotrMachowski/lovelace-html-card
Install this integration via this button in your own HA instance
# Dashboard card code
type: custom:html-card
content: >
<center>
<video width="450" height="260" controls class="video-js" data-setup="{}">
<source src="http://<ip-address:port>/api/camera_1/person/clip.mp4" type="video/mp4">
</video>
</center>
Show Frigate MQTT last event captured snapshots
When you’ve added your camera as camera-entity in Home Assistant you can use the Picture Entity to show the last captured snapshot.
This example redirects also to the page /my-camera/frigate when you click on it.
# Dashboard card code
type: picture-entity
show_state: false
show_name: false
camera_view: auto
fit_mode: cover
tap_action:
action: navigate
navigation_path: /my-camera/frigate
entity: camera.frigate_last_person
<< See also my other Home Assistant tips and tricks