Debugging MQTT/Frigate controls

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I enjoy using Frigate, and need help toggling its controls (detect/recording/snapshots) from HA automations.

I have Frigate addon, Mosquitto broker, MQTT integration working fine when controlled within Frigate UI. However, when I try to toggle its controls from developer panel (switch.hallcam1_detect) - nothing happens. Looks like if there is no action when I toggle the switch.

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Through MQTT-Explorer I see that Frigate is posting topics correctly and switch gets updated with control changes from UI.

However, when I publish ON message to the frigate/hallcam1/detect/state topic there is no change to the state in Frigate UI. Is this one way communication due to misconfiguration of mqtt? What could be wrong?

Thanks!

2

you are using the wrong topic. to change the state you need to publish to /set not /state

this is stated in the frigate docs

3

Thanks, Nicolas!

Is there a way to control Frigate via switch (switch.hallcam1_detect)?