Using Live view camera entity as a camera in Frigate

I am trying to integrate a camera.xxxxx entity from HA into the Frigate integration to allow me to detect, record and carry out automations.

I have found the following using the frigate UI that states that i need to use the hass integration which will automatically discover home assistant camera entities. This is achieved by adding the following into the config file for Frigate

go2rtc:
  hass:
    config: /homeassistant

I have done this step and then used the suggested configuration below in my config file

cameras:
  camera_name:
    enabled: true
    ffmpeg:
      inputs:
        - path: rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/*entity name in HA without the camera.*
          input_args: preset-rtsp-restream
          roles:
            - detect
            - record
    detect:
      enabled: true
      width: 1280
      height: 720

After doing this i have restarted Frigate but I receive the following errors in the log

2025-11-23 14:01:32.582823020  [2025-11-23 14:01:32] frigate.video                  ERROR   : Brendo_door: Unable to read frames from ffmpeg process.
2025-11-23 14:01:32.583081803  [2025-11-23 14:01:32] frigate.video                  ERROR   : Brendo_door: ffmpeg process is not running. exiting capture thread...
2025-11-23 14:01:41.592445386  127.0.0.1 - - [23/Nov/2025:14:01:41 +0000] "" 400 0 "-" "-" "-"
2025-11-23 14:01:42.556934410  [2025-11-23 14:01:42] watchdog.Brendo_door           ERROR   : Ffmpeg process crashed unexpectedly for Brendo_door.
2025-11-23 14:01:42.557342369  [2025-11-23 14:01:42] watchdog.Brendo_door           ERROR   : The following ffmpeg logs include the last 100 lines prior to exit.
2025-11-23 14:01:42.557688576  [2025-11-23 14:01:42] ffmpeg.Brendo_door.detect      ERROR   : [tcp @ 0x56140006b080] Connection to tcp://172.0.0.1:8554?timeout=10000000 failed: Connection timed out
2025-11-23 14:01:42.558024499  [2025-11-23 14:01:42] ffmpeg.Brendo_door.detect      ERROR   : [in#0 @ 0x561400069d80] Error opening input: Connection timed out
2025-11-23 14:01:42.558253652  [2025-11-23 14:01:42] ffmpeg.Brendo_door.detect      ERROR   : Error opening input file rtsp://172.0.0.1:8554/front_door_live_view.
2025-11-23 14:01:42.558508755  [2025-11-23 14:01:42] ffmpeg.Brendo_door.detect      ERROR   : Error opening input files: Connection timed out

This is where i am now stuck and any help would be massively appreciated

Here is a copy of my configuration

mqtt:
  host: 192.168.1.200
  user: xxxx_xxxx
  password: xxxxx

database:
  path: /config/frigate.db

go2rtc:
  hass:
    config: /homeassistant

detectors:
  coral1:
    type: edgetpu
    device: pci:0

version: 0.16-0

detect:
  enabled: true

cameras:
  Brendo_door:
    enabled: true
    ffmpeg:
      inputs:
        - path: rtsp://172.0.0.1:8554/front_door_live_view
          input_args: preset-rtsp-restream
          roles:
            - detect
            - record
    detect:
      enabled: true
      width: 720
      height: 720

I don’t use Frigate nor have any cameras, but I spot 2 potential issues:

  1. You have an IP mismatch - your Frigate config points to rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554 but your HA config points to rtsp://172.0.0.1:8554
  2. Entity names shouldn’t be capitalised. Change Brendo_door to brendo_door in your config.

Apologies, I had been trying the local IP address of my HA before and typed in 172 by mistake.
Thank you for the advice on the capitals as well. I have made the above changes but still getting the same errors

2025-11-23 14:21:00.072643909  [2025-11-23 14:21:00] watchdog.brendo_door           INFO    : Restarting ffmpeg...
2025-11-23 14:21:00.085799923  [2025-11-23 14:21:00] frigate.video                  ERROR   : brendo_door: Unable to read frames from ffmpeg process.
2025-11-23 14:21:00.086320227  [2025-11-23 14:21:00] frigate.video                  ERROR   : brendo_door: ffmpeg process is not running. exiting capture thread...
2025-11-23 14:21:10.074789063  [2025-11-23 14:21:10] watchdog.brendo_door           ERROR   : Ffmpeg process crashed unexpectedly for brendo_door.
2025-11-23 14:21:10.075063294  [2025-11-23 14:21:10] watchdog.brendo_door           ERROR   : The following ffmpeg logs include the last 100 lines prior to exit.
2025-11-23 14:21:10.075589500  [2025-11-23 14:21:10] ffmpeg.brendo_door.detect      ERROR   : [rtsp @ 0x55d3c3d65080] method DESCRIBE failed: 404 Not Found
2025-11-23 14:21:10.076210652  [2025-11-23 14:21:10] ffmpeg.brendo_door.detect      ERROR   : [in#0 @ 0x55d3c3d64d80] Error opening input: Server returned 404 Not Found
2025-11-23 14:21:10.076780671  [2025-11-23 14:21:10] ffmpeg.brendo_door.detect      ERROR   : Error opening input file rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/front_door_live_view.
2025-11-23 14:21:10.076787003  [2025-11-23 14:21:10] ffmpeg.brendo_door.detect      ERROR   : Error opening input files: Server returned 404 Not Found

I have also notice that when i restart the add on I get the below

2025-11-23 14:18:35.282143426  [INFO] Starting certsync...
s6-rc: info: service legacy-services successfully started
2025-11-23 14:18:35.361696059  2025/11/23 14:18:35 [error] 217#217: *1 connect() failed (111: Connection refused) while connecting to upstream, client: 127.0.0.1, server: , request: "GET /api/version HTTP/1.1", subrequest: "/auth", upstream: "http://127.0.0.1:5001/auth", host: "127.0.0.1:5000"
2025-11-23 14:18:35.361768913  2025/11/23 14:18:35 [error] 217#217: *1 auth request unexpected status: 502 while sending to client, client: 127.0.0.1, server: , request: "GET /api/version HTTP/1.1", host: "127.0.0.1:5000"
2025-11-23 14:18:35.776516621  127.0.0.1 - - [23/Nov/2025:14:18:35 +0000] "" 400 0 "-" "-" "-"
2025-11-23 14:18:37.269911184  [2025-11-23 14:18:37] frigate.util.config            INFO    : Checking if frigate config needs migration...
2025-11-23 14:18:37.312356529  [2025-11-23 14:18:37] frigate.util.config            INFO    : frigate config does not need migration...
2025-11-23 14:18:38.119760289  2025/11/23 14:18:38 [error] 218#218: *4 connect() failed (111: Connection refused) while connecting to upstream, client: 172.30.32.1, server: , request: "GET /api/stats HTTP/1.1", subrequest: "/auth", upstream: "http://127.0.0.1:5001/auth", host: "ccab4aaf-frigate:5000"
2025-11-23 14:18:38.119767965  2025/11/23 14:18:38 [error] 218#218: *4 auth request unexpected status: 502 while sending to client, client: 172.30.32.1, server: , request: "GET /api/stats HTTP/1.1", host: "ccab4aaf-frigate:5000"

I have no idea what this means, however it mentions that the connection was refused so doesnt seem correct

502 is a Bad Gateway response.
Did you restart HA or at least reload the config? Asking because it looks like something is till trying to connect to:

That can’t be right, since that’s the loopback address.

Did some quick google searches for you, since it’s the best I can do with no direct Frigate experience. Have a look at these 3 issues - if they don’t fix your problem, I suggest you raise an issue there: