Frigate and MQTT AND ZHA

[crowdip]

I have a number of Sonoff zigbee devices running under HAOS with ZHA and a Sonoff Dongle on a Rasp Pi 5 with SSD.

I wish to install Frigate NVR +Coral TPU, and some IP cameras, which I understand requires MQTT - and a broker.

I presume these should all work happily together, this thread states:

Frigate requires MQTT. Will that effect ZHA?

I have HA running in a VM on Proxmox. I’m using the ZHA integration for my (so far) one smart plug because I couldn’t get ZigbeeMQTT to recognize my Sonoff Zigbee dongle. ZHA picked it up right away. Anyway, I want to try Frigate for my one camera but it requires MQTT. Is that related to ZigbeeMQTT? If so is there a problem running both MQTT and ZHA? How about running in Proxmox? Any potential problems there?

MQTT uses topics to separate traffic

The two integrations use different topics

Are Topics a term used in the coding.

Is it right that you cannot have Zigbee2MQTT and ZHA at the same time, it is one or the other.

[tmjpugh]

@crowdip

presume these should all work happily together

Yes

@crowdip

MQTT uses topics to separate traffic

Basically yes but there is no “traffic”
There are just a series of individual messages containing data

A frigate message may have topic frigate/cam1 with associated data

A z2m message may have zigbee/light/living_room with associated data

These topic help you identify and select the data you desire

Reading the MQTT docs may provide some better info and examples

[crowdip]

Thank you, yes some reading to be done