# Is there a frigate alternative to homey pro?
**URL:** https://community.homey.app/t/is-there-a-frigate-alternative-to-homey-pro/90165
**Category:** Questions & Help
**Tags:** homey-pro
**Created:** [September 24, 2023, 6:23pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/is-there-a-frigate-alternative-to-homey-pro/90165 "2023-09-24T18:23:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 18
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### Author:  [@Zmove](https://community.homey.app/u/Zmove)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2023, 6:23pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/is-there-a-frigate-alternative-to-homey-pro/90165/1 "2023-09-24T18:23:39Z")
Hello,
I’m quite new to domotic and happy owner of an homey pro early 2023.
By viewing some videos about domotic, I discovered the frigate app, that allow to have AI powered detection with camera insteaf of just movement detection, which add a whole new level to possible automations.
Unfortunately, it seems to be made to work with home assistant, I wonder if there is some alternatives already available for homey.
Thank you
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### Author:  [@Sharkys](https://community.homey.app/u/Sharkys)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2023, 6:54pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/is-there-a-frigate-alternative-to-homey-pro/90165/2 "2023-09-24T18:54:07Z")
I was wondering what Frigate is…
> **[GitHub - blakeblackshear/frigate: NVR with realtime local object detection for IP...](https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate)**
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> NVR with realtime local object detection for IP cameras
```auto
A complete and local NVR designed for Home Assistant with AI object detection. Uses OpenCV and Tensorflow to perform realtime object detection locally for IP cameras.
Use of a Google Coral Accelerator is optional, but highly recommended. The Coral will outperform even the best CPUs and can process 100+ FPS with very little overhead.
```
So not exactly but maybe take a look on :
[Face++](https://homey.app/en-us/app/com.gruijter.facepp/Face++/)
[License plate recognition](https://homey.app/en-us/app/com.gruijter.anpr/License-Plate-Recognition/)
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### Author:  [@Zmove](https://community.homey.app/u/Zmove)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2023, 6:24pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/is-there-a-frigate-alternative-to-homey-pro/90165/3 "2023-09-25T18:24:44Z")
Thank you for the answer, I will look at this !
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### Author:  [@Kazimir](https://community.homey.app/u/Kazimir)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2023, 10:49pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/is-there-a-frigate-alternative-to-homey-pro/90165/4 "2023-11-12T22:49:29Z")
Frigate can run separately outside of Home Assistant Operating System. Frigate can also publish events over MQTT so I don’t see any problem with integrating Frigate to Homey.
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### Author:  [@Rmb](https://community.homey.app/u/Rmb)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2023, 10:58pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/is-there-a-frigate-alternative-to-homey-pro/90165/5 "2023-11-12T22:58:18Z")
Some privacy aspects might be involved. Especially when you upload your pictures to Google.
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### Author:  [@Nicolas\_Herment](https://community.homey.app/u/Nicolas_Herment)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2024, 10:04am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/is-there-a-frigate-alternative-to-homey-pro/90165/6 "2024-01-02T10:04:29Z")
@Zmove I have been working on this over the Christmas break and have an initial app waiting to be approved for the store.
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### Author:  [@Jerry\_McCrohan](https://community.homey.app/u/Jerry_McCrohan)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2024, 10:08am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/is-there-a-frigate-alternative-to-homey-pro/90165/7 "2024-01-04T10:08:00Z")
Hi Nicolas,
Was your app approved?
I’ve been using Frigate with Home Assistant for the last year and consider it to be one of the best HA integrations, especially for the multi-function Lovelace dashboard widget which is a great piece of UI design.
However, I’m increasingly interested in switching to Homey Pro to reduce the overhead of expanding and maintaining my home automation system.
I’d be really interested to see what you’ve done!
All the best,
Jerry
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### Author:  [@Nicolas\_Herment](https://community.homey.app/u/Nicolas_Herment)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2024, 10:23am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/is-there-a-frigate-alternative-to-homey-pro/90165/8 "2024-01-04T10:23:21Z")
Hi @Jerry_McCrohan,
Yes the app is publicly available. It’s pretty crude for now but you are welcome to test it and I would appreciate feedback.
Homey does not have an as strong support for videos as HA does. I will make some updates to the documentation (on the github repository) later today once I am done with work.
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### Author:  [@Jerry\_McCrohan](https://community.homey.app/u/Jerry_McCrohan)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2024, 10:58am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/is-there-a-frigate-alternative-to-homey-pro/90165/9 "2024-01-04T10:58:07Z")
Chapeau Nicolas !
Do you have any screenshots of your integration? I haven’t taken the plunge yet with Homey, so unfortunately can’t test it yet. I’m almost convinced but having Frigate embedded in the app was a real plus and a wife-pleaser 😀
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### Author:  [@Nicolas\_Herment](https://community.homey.app/u/Nicolas_Herment)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2024, 11:40am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/is-there-a-frigate-alternative-to-homey-pro/90165/10 "2024-01-04T11:40:59Z")
I will share some screenshots on the github repo tonight.
If you want I can also walk you through my homey setup so that you can see the capabilities. If you prefer that, feel free to contact me though the support/contact section (email) of the app’s page: [https://homey.app/en-/app/video.frigate/](https://homey.app/en-/app/video.frigate/). I can then send you a zoom link and will walk you through the plugin.
I’m quite keen on hearing how you intend to use Homey and can potentially adapt the plugin so that it works for you.
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### Author:  [@Jerry\_McCrohan](https://community.homey.app/u/Jerry_McCrohan)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2024, 4:03pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/is-there-a-frigate-alternative-to-homey-pro/90165/11 "2024-01-04T16:03:52Z")
Cool! I’ll respond to you via the support/contact section Nicolas.
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### Author:  [@Mareike\_B](https://community.homey.app/u/Mareike_B)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2024, 3:01pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/is-there-a-frigate-alternative-to-homey-pro/90165/12 "2024-04-10T15:01:10Z")
Hey @Nicolas_Herment,
nice work with your frigate integration. I set everything up, but the floware not working. When using the mqtt client app I can create flows when detecting a person. So I believe that frigate is sending correct events. What can I do? I would really like to use your flows instead.
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### Author:  [@Nicolas\_Herment](https://community.homey.app/u/Nicolas_Herment)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2024, 4:59am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/is-there-a-frigate-alternative-to-homey-pro/90165/13 "2024-04-12T04:59:23Z")
> [@Mareike\_B](#):
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> not working. When using the mqtt client app I can create flows when detecting a person. So I believe that frigate is sending correct events. What can I do? I would really like to use your flows instead.
Could you send me some diagnostics report? It’s a button available the app’s settings.
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### Author:  [@Mareike\_B](https://community.homey.app/u/Mareike_B)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2024, 4:53pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/is-there-a-frigate-alternative-to-homey-pro/90165/14 "2024-04-26T16:53:30Z")
Did it a while ago. Did you find the problem?
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### Author:  [@niklasg](https://community.homey.app/u/niklasg)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2024, 2:56pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/is-there-a-frigate-alternative-to-homey-pro/90165/15 "2024-04-29T14:56:34Z")
Hi! I am having similar issues after installing it a few days ago. Camera loads and I can manually refresh it, but no flows are triggered.
I sent a diagnostics report with id cde6ea5d-ae51-43e6-8566-5a2d1e7240ee, if that helps 🙂
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### Author:  [@Xaer](https://community.homey.app/u/Xaer)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2024, 10:59am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/is-there-a-frigate-alternative-to-homey-pro/90165/16 "2024-12-19T10:59:05Z")
I really would like to try this! I have Frigate and Homey running and this app is installed, but I’m stumped by what I need to add to make this app on my Homey respond to events from Frigate.
What extra steps/apps are required to get the integration working over MQTT?
Thanks a lot in advance!
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### Author:  [@iclems](https://community.homey.app/u/iclems)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2026, 3:47pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/is-there-a-frigate-alternative-to-homey-pro/90165/17 "2026-01-21T15:47:37Z")
FYI I pushed support for live video stream via a PR: [feat: Add RTSP video stream support via go2rtc by iclems · Pull Request #8 · nherment/homey-frigate-nvr · GitHub](https://github.com/nherment/homey-frigate-nvr/pull/8)
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### Author:  [@Gerrit\_Fikse](https://community.homey.app/u/Gerrit_Fikse)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2026, 1:18pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/is-there-a-frigate-alternative-to-homey-pro/90165/18 "2026-02-12T13:18:38Z")
Just a very simple and stupid question, but on my Homey Pro (2016 — 2019) — 12.11.0, I do not get the settings page for this app.
What I get is simply the below and nothing for the settings…. Can someone help me how in what I am doing wrong?
