Network Storage- How do I tell Frigate where to put the media files?

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I am trying to put my frigate media files on an external Samba share. I added my Samba share to the Network Storage tab (below) and restarted Home Assistant. But the Frigate clips and recordings still go to my HAOS host \media\frigate

I know the share is good because I can mount it from another Ubuntu computer with:
sudo mount -t cifs -o username=steve,password=redacted //192.168.1.146/frigate /mnt/media

So, any ideas why my Frigate clips and recordings still go to my Home Assistant disk? What have I missed?

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I don’t use Frigate, but surely you have to go in the Frigate settings and update your media path there too.

EDIT: Had a look at the Frigate docs and I’m not sure you can do what I suggested.

The file structure here cannot be modified and isn't intended to be browsed or managed manually.
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Are you sure? Some users found this confusing as it still shows up in the media browser but this just comes from the integration. and /media/frigate on the HA OS host will just be a virtual volume from the network storage. Have you verified if the files are on the network storage?

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98% sure.
I look at the Samba share from another Ubuntu PC, and the clips aren’t there.

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I’ve done more experimenting with Network Storage, and it is making more sense.

Here is a graphic I made for my notebook:

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#1 is the folder name being created.
#2 Is the parent folder.
So in this example, an empty folder will be created at /media/my_frigate

Next, #3 is the IP address where my Samba Server (#4) is running. #5 is the share name. ([frigate] in my smb.conf file).

When I click on Connect, HAOS makes a symbolic link to the folder shared on my Samba Server PC.

Now that I more fully understand what is happening in HAOS, I am back to my original problem.
How do I tell Frigate where to put the media files?

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You don’t, the field you have marked as number one must be called frigate, as frigate always uses /media/frigate

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Thanks- that works.

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