Frigate Proxy on Homeassistant OS - No Entities

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Hello everyone,
i have a question about Frigate Proxy. My HA OS is running on a VM in Proxmox. My Frigate Proxy is running in a Docker LXC container on the Proxmox. The two communicate with each other. However, I can’t find all the entities in HA OS under Devices. Why? Do I need to install anything else?
Regards, Stefan Harbich

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I do not use frigate, but some common causes could be that you are having a filter active in the list. Check especially for hidden and disabled devices.

It could also be that tænondevices at created.
Devices are just a group of entities, but the entities can also be created with being grouped in a device, so check the entity list also.

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I thought I was supposed to see Frigate entities? But because I only have Frigate Proxy installed in HA, I’m not seeing any Frigate entities. However, the Reolink integration does show the entities. Or am I missing an add-on?

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I have a readup and the frigate proxy is an addon.
An addon is another word for separate server.
It is not an integration, which is the part that creates the entities in HA.

You need a frigate integration to get frigate entities.
Frigate proxy is for people running a frigate on another hardware and want to control it from HA (as far as I can tell), which is not the same as integrate it.

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So if I run Frigate on different hardware and integrate it into HomeAssistant via the proxy, I can’t access the Frigate entities that are then created via Settings=Devices & Services=Frigate Integration? Since I use the IP address of the remote server and port 5000 during setup? That’s consistent with my experience. Because nothing changes for any of the entities in Frigate under Devices & Services, even though all the entities are found. Strange.

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I think the proxy is just for management, but I do not know for sure.

My guess is that the Frigate integration should be connected directly to the Frigate server.

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Are there any instructions on how to configure Frigate with Homeassistant if Frigate is installed on different hardware? This ensures that camera events can also be displayed in Homeassistant. The entities from the external Frigate installation should be displayed in Homeassistant. A few questions about this:

  • Is an MQTT broker sufficient (in Homeassistant or on the external hardware where Frigate is also installed)?
  • Do I need an MQTT broker running on the external hardware where Frigate is also installed?
  • Does the external MQTT broker have to be connected to the one integrated in Homeassistant?
  • Which Frigate add-on do I need to install (Frigate & Frigate Proxy)?
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I found my mistake. I had copied my config.yaml file from the Frigate add-on from HomeAssistant one-to-one and imported it into the external Frigate installation. I forgot to change the hostname “host:core-mosquitto” in the IP address. The name couldn’t be resolved. It worked with the IP address.