ioBroker.frigate

Tests:

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frigate adapter for ioBroker

Adapter for Frigate Tool Frigate Video

Setup

• Enter Frigate url e.g. localhost:5000 or 192.168.178.2:5000
• Enter MQTT port: 1883 from the frigate config
• Enter host or ip of iobroker system in the frigate config under

mqtt:
    host: ioBrokerIP
    port: ioBrokerPort

After Starting Frigate and the Adapter, you should see a new client connected in the log.

Usage

stats

General Information about the system and cameras.

remotes

frigate.0.remote.pauseNotifications - Pause Notification for all Cameras.

events

Last Event with before and after information.

frigate.0.events.history - History of the last X events.

History event has a thumbnail of the event and URL to the snapshot and clip.

camera_name

Status and settings of the camera.

Change states to change the settings of the camera.

Detailed Information about all states

• frigate.0.camera_name.motion - Whether camera_name is currently detecting motion. Expected values are ON and OFF. NOTE: After motion is initially detected, ON will be set until no motion has been detected for mqtt_off_delay seconds (30 by default).
• frigate.0.camera_name.person_snapshot - Publishes a jpeg encoded frame of the detected object type. When the object is no longer detected, the highest confidence image is published or the original image is published again. The height and crop of snapshots can be configured in the config.
• frigate.0.camera_name.history - Event history of the camera.
• frigate.0.camera_name.remote.notificationText - custom notification text for the camera.
• frigate.0.camera_name.remote.notificationMinScore - custom notification min score for the camera.
• frigate.0.camera_name.remote.pauseNotifications - pause notification for the camera.
• frigate.0.camera_name.remote.ptz - send ptz commands https://docs.frigate.video/integrations/mqtt/#frigatecamera_nameptz

Notifications

The adapter can send snapshots and clips from events and object detection to instances like telegram, pushover and signal-cbm.

You can specify multiple instances or users to send snapshots or clips.

Activate notifications in the settings to receive snapshots or clips.

For Event can enter a minimum score before sending. 0 = Disabled.

Clips are sent 5 seconds (Instance settings) after the event ends.

You can enter custom notification text with placeholder {{source}} {{type}} erkannt {{status}} {{score}} {{state}}.

Integrate in vis

You can integrate snapshots and clips in the vis:

Snapshot:

• Add a String img src and use as Object ID: frigate.0.camera_name.person_snapshot
• Add a String img src and use as Object ID: frigate.0.events.history.01.thumbnail

Clips:

• Add a HTML add as HTML:

<video width="100%" height="auto" src="{frigate.0.events.history.01.webclip}" autoplay muted>
</video>

Number of persons:

• frigate.0.camera.person

Event with Person:

• frigate.0.events.after.label = person

Running frigate docker on different host

If you want to send via telegram and co. the clips and snapshots to the iobroker host, the frigate instance and telegram (or other) instance must run on the same host, as frigate uses disk to store the clips and snapshots.

Discussion and questions

https://forum.iobroker.net/topic/64928/frigate-adapter-für-iobroker

Changelog

2.1.3 (2026-03-19)

• (@GermanBluefox) Remove wrong log message about missing docker
• (@GermanBluefox) Send on connection the topic onConnect to receive camera_activity topic

2.1.2 (2026-03-14)

• (@GermanBluefox) Corrected the writing of ON/OFF states

2.1.1 (2026-03-08)

• (@GermanBluefox) Added threshold for person detection in notifications

2.1.0 (2026-03-07)

• (@GermanBluefox) Code optimizations and refactoring
• (copilot) missing jsonConfig sizes have been added
• (mcm1957) dependencies have been updated

2.0.2 (2026-02-16)

• (@GermanBluefox) Removed gpu_usages

License

MIT License

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