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0 pointsticulatedspline10mo ago0 comments

Do you know of any good Soup-To-Nuts tutorial "for dummies" on such a setup? Finally getting some secure home monitoring/automation has bubbled up as a priority and I've started looking at Home Assistant but even for someone with some technical background the learning curve combined with the sheer breadth of options is overwhelming.

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Aspos10mo ago

Try following this: https://chatgpt.com/share/6893f888-8a70-800c-ad8a-0987257b93...

In frigate, add this to the top of your configuration file:

mqtt:

  enabled: true

  host: IP_ADDRESS_OF_YOUR_HOMEASSISTANT

  port: 1883

  topic_prefix: frigate

  user: USERNAME_YOU_CREATED_FOR_MQTT

  password: PASSOWRD_YOU_CREATED_FOR_MQTT

Frigate will start sending various messages to Homeassistant. Go to HA, go to MQTT settings and listen to a topic frigate/#

Observe the messages, pick the one which suits your needs.

Follow this for an example: https://chatgpt.com/share/6893fd1c-2940-800c-a358-a840029e6e...

You dont really need to add the HA automation via yaml, you can click it through manually.

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