Problem With Frigate MQTT Setup (I Think)

Third party integrations
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I wonder if anyone can tell me what I’m getting wrong here, I think it’s Frigate not communicating with the Mosquito MQTT broker running on the same HA Yellow at the IP 192.168.2.216 as in the config below.

I see the cameras in MQTT no problem like this:

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But, in the Frigate add on noting seems to be available bar the stream, like this:

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I can’t figure out why Frigate isn’t seeing the MQTT instances when the Frigate MQTT config is setup like this:

mqtt:
  enabled: true
  host: 192.168.2.216
  port: 1883
  topic_prefix: frigate
  user: 
  password:

I’ve cobbled that together from all I can find and read or watch about this online and it seems to be correct so far as I can tell but still no joy with it regardless of what tweaks I make. Suggesting that I’ve gotten something fundamentally wrong and can’t see the wood for the trees most probably.

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not sure why, but with me, the mqtt delivers everthing to frigate integration:

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the mqtt integration doesnt show frigate entities

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That’s what I expected to see but, does Frigate show up as a device in MQTT as that doesn’t appear in my list of MQTT things?

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I fixed it!

Apparently a blank user/pass was the problem, I created a user account for Frigate and it all works now, just in case someone else has the same issue.

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