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                                              ArveVM, December.2022

Solution: Camearas

Why Cameras?

  • Need a way for record when people come visit (warnings), recording in case of theft and general surveilamce
  • Record no audio
  • Record only when movement

Table of contents:

Chapter Description/purpose
How it works High level view - how it works
Camera Camera-card
Requirements/install tipstroubleshooting Some guidance on what is required and how to install (not at all my biggest priority to keep this up to date, but at least I have tried somehow ;)
Credits and inspiration Listing the particular support, ideas, resources that I have to thank especially for this Solution


How it works (for me):

  • Buy cameras that work with ONVIF.
  • Try camera-stream in VLC-media-palyer to ensure you have right stream
  • Add camera-stream with right arguments to Frigate-config (see Frigate instructions for guidance
  • Add camera-entity to Frigate-card



View cameras:

Card preview Card Config
image Camera card n/a
- Frigate integration configured in GUI
- Frigate Docker configured on unRaid
image second tab - click left/right for other cameras
- frigate-bird gives menu of recordings/snapshots/timeline etc
image third tab
image last tab Added picture-glance of an old camera without onvif (added as generic-camera in GUI)



Requirements/install tips/troubleshooting:

Click to unfold list of booring requirements, tips etc

Functionality required (other than what is builtin in my version of HA):

  • unRaid Docker: Frigate
  • HACS-integration: Frigate
  • HACS-frontend: rigate-card
  • HACS-frontend: tabbed-card
  • HACS-frontend: auto-entities Optional
  • Dashboard:
    • yaml-dashboard (but you can copy dashboard-code to UI-dashboard/card



To install you should:

  • Install Frigate docker - (optional HA-Addon; Frigate)

  • add config to Frigate-docker (config-file need to be created, verify in Frigate web-ui that you have connection to camera(s))

  • Installed HA frigate-integration (ensure you get in the frigate-cameras)

  • copy and insert code for card whereever suitable for your installation

  • redo/change to your naming standards/cameras/entities :)


template-editor test-code:

nah,,


Other info:

maybe someday I will document the docker-setup and -config ;),, just maybe,,,

for birdseye-view: https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate/issues/2606 look at comment from mattkasa commented on Jan 19 for an card-update within lovelace card-config!!




Credits/inspiration:

  • Kenneth M, partial Frigate config ;)



improvements planned/project queue:

  • Better documentation of server/docker setup
  • might do something with history/graphs etc? counter on how often ?
  • warning/popup when person detected (and a pause-function?)
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