Frigate Installation doesn't show as camera on HA

Installation
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Hello all,
I made the frigate installation from add-ons… Both tried standart one and full version. (running on haos with a raspberry pi 5)
My frigate seems to work with my rtsp camera, It captures and make detection according to my zone settings. even it notifies via automation when a person detection occurs…

But the problem is, when I tried to get the thumbnail when a person detected, I tried different scripts but none of them able to send the thumbnail of the person detected… urls are like homeassistanturl/api … etc but it doesnt seem to work. I also added port 5000 on frigate configuration but it didnt work either… then i found a blueprint for frigate notifications.
There i noticed thet both on blueprint and frigate card doesnt detect my frigate camera as camera… I verified from developers/states, only my rtsp camera that i configured via home assistant is visible. not frigate camera itself.

I am looking for a way to add thumbnail (I found it under my media/clips) but it seems i cant share this view to my phone directly as an url… because whatever i try… i hit the wall of not found or not authorized…
sharing my frigate config as well.

mqtt:
  host: core-mosquitto
  port: 1883
  user: xxxxx
  password: xxxxx
  stats_interval: 60
birdseye:
  enabled: true
  mode: continuous
  width: 1280
  height: 720
cameras:
  my_camera:
    enabled: true
    ffmpeg:
      inputs:
        - path: rtsp://admin:[email protected]:554/Streaming/Channels/101/
          roles:
            - detect
    detect:
      width: 1280
      height: 1024
      fps: 5
    snapshots:
      enabled: true
      timestamp: true
      bounding_box: true
    record:
      enabled: true
      retain:
        days: 3
        mode: motion
      events:
        pre_capture: 20
        post_capture: 20
    objects:
      track:
        - person
      filters:
        person:
          mask: 0.015,0.157,0.031,0.501,0.325,0.344,0.325,0.165,0.33,0.034,0.033,0.022
    zones:
      bahce:
        coordinates: 
          0.355,0.092,0.358,0.38,0.283,0.378,0.071,0.51,0.021,0.562,0.031,0.86,0.028,0.942,0.861,0.962,0.854,0.149,0.591,0.113
        loitering_time: 0
        objects: person
    review:
      alerts:
        required_zones: bahce
      detections:
        required_zones: bahce
    motion:
      mask: 0.027,0.048,0.038,0.123,0.365,0.132,0.365,0.057
version: 0.14
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Ad addition… I think i found the problem but not the solution.
WHen I checked the mtqq from shell, i can see mqtt has publish of frigate besides my crow alarm integration…

frigate/available online
frigate/frigate_my_camera/recordings/state ON
frigate/frigate_my_camera/snapshots/state ON
frigate/frigate_my_camera/audio/state OFF
frigate/frigate_my_camera/detect/state ON
frigate/frigate_my_camera/motion/state ON
frigate/frigate_my_camera/improve_contrast/state ON
frigate/frigate_my_camera/ptz_autotracker/state OFF
frigate/frigate_my_camera/motion_threshold/state 30
frigate/frigate_my_camera/motion_contour_area/state 10
frigate/frigate_my_camera/birdseye/state ON
frigate/frigate_my_camera/birdseye_mode/state CONTINUOUS

but when i check the mqtt in home assistant, i only see my alarm zones… not an entry from frigate.

chatgpt wrote me to add

  discovery: true
  discovery_prefix: homeassistant

in frigate configuration but with this parameters frigate throws an error and doesnt run.

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After digging for a while, i found the solution.
I installed the frigate from Add-Ons… and thought it was enough.

It seems i should install the frigate integration from HACS as well.
After installing and configuring, frigate cameras appeated in my integrations.

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