Frigate Stream camera script/automation

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Hi all,

I have setup Frigate and its wonderful and I am loving this option “Send to media player” (cast to device)
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What I am trying to setup a script to call that option from a single button or a triggered event, but when I try and create a script it show this error:

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Is there a differnt service I should be calling for this? Has anyone else managed to get this working using Frigate?

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Hey @nthulke, I ended up with this workaround:

  • Go to:
    Open your Home Assistant instance and show your event developer tools.
  • Under “Listen to events”, in the “Event to subscribe to” text field, enter call_service and click “START LISTENING”
  • Click “Send to media player” on the frigate card
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  • An event should now show up, looking like this:

event_type: call_service
data:
domain: media_player
service: play_media
service_data:
entity_id: media_player.kitchen_display
media_content_id: media-source://camera/camera.frontdoor
media_content_type: application/vnd.apple.mpegurl
extra:
title: Frontdoor
thumb: >-
/api/camera_proxy/camera.frontdoor?token=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

  • Replace the ‘xxxx’ with {{states.camera.frontdoor.attributes.access_token}}
    Note you will need to change the camera name in the api call and access_token variable

Eg. /api/camera_proxy/camera.yourcameraname?token={{states.camera.yourcameraname.attributes.access_token}}

  • Add the above to your automation service call
service: media_player.play_media
target:
  entity_id: media_player.yourmediaplayer
data:
  entity_id: media_player.yourmediaplayer
  media_content_id: media-source://camera/camera.yourcameraname
  media_content_type: application/vnd.apple.mpegurl
  extra:
    title: Frontdoor
    thumb: >-
      /api/camera_proxy/camera.yourcameraname?token={{states.camera.yourcameraname.attributes.access_token}}
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Hi mate, I tried that but it doesn’t seem to work. Is it still working for you?