FrigateHub

FrigateHub connects Frigate to Symcon – the open-source video surveillance with AI detection of people, cars, animals and packages, without cloud. A configurator creates one instance per Frigate camera, plus optionally one for the Frigate server.

FrigateHub is also the way for cameras that are otherwise hard or impossible to integrate into Symcon: every camera with an RTSP stream – e.g. Mobotix, Axis, Hikvision, Dahua, Reolink, Instar, Foscam, Doorbird, Ubiquiti or no-name – becomes a Symcon camera with live video, recordings, archive and events via Frigate, without a manufacturer module. Pure cloud cameras without RTSP (e.g. Ring, Blink, Arlo, Nest) usually do not work.

Each camera provides motion, alert, detection, counters per object and zone, sounds, faces, license plates and Frigate's AI description, plus the image of the last detection. Detection, recording, snapshots, masks and zones can be switched from Symcon.

As a sensor it reports how long a car or package has been standing, whether someone is loitering in a zone, states such as gate open/closed, unknown faces and license plates, speed and daily counters. An image check detects covered or moved cameras.

Many Frigate settings can be changed directly in the instance form: retention, detected objects, alerts, objects and loitering time per zone, snapshots, license plate, face and sound detection. Frigate applies them immediately.

The camera is also a tile: live image or live video with sound (WebRTC), events with a clip of the whole period and the course per object as in Frigate, archive by day and playback from a time of day, control pad for PTZ cameras; also as a standalone page for IPSView.

The server instance shows version, storage and faulty cameras, switches Frigate profiles and is a tile with an overview of all cameras. Its recording watchdog reports when Frigate no longer records although it is "running" – e.g. when a USB disk disconnects.

Notifications on alert go to the tile visualization or WebFront and optionally by e-mail with camera image. FrigateHub optionally works together with the OpenHomeAlarm alarm system, including loitering, sabotage and faults as sensors.

Events arrive via MQTT through Symcon's MQTT server, images and archive via Frigate's HTTP API (port 5000, or 8971 with login; the password is not stored). Tested with Frigate 0.18.2. The module speaks English and German, following the language of the Symcon installation.

Frigate is an open-source project of Frigate, Inc.; FrigateHub is not an official Frigate project. License: PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0 – free for private use, commercial use only with a separate license.