Can you use Frigate love lace card without Frigate backend in HA?

[badnbusy]

This is not a bug but more of a question...

I use Frigate and the Lovelace card on my main HA installation, however I have a secondary system which is using the go2rtc addon and the webrtc lovelace card in order to show some non-Frigate RTSP streams from Hikvision cameras.

Is it possible to use the Frigate lovelace card with these without using Frigate integration / backend?

The lovelace card is so ace and I like how you can use left/right to flick between cameras, go full screen and just the general layout compared to the simple webrtc custom card.

If not, and I know this isn't a Frigate lovelace problem, what is the next best card for viewing live camera feeds?

Thank you

[dermotduffy]

Is it possible to use the Frigate lovelace card with these without using Frigate integration / backend?

Absolutely, although features will be much more limited. As a matter of principle, the card will always work for non-Frigate cameras -- and I've been vaguely considering whether we should rename the card.

See here for the functionality differences between camera "engines": https://github.com/dermotduffy/frigate-hass-card#available-camera-engines

Likely of significant relevance to you is this PR which I just literally merged today. As such, it is not yet available in any build. It enables go2rtc support for non-Frigate cameras, which it sounds like you need.

[badnbusy]

Thanks! How is the engine: generic set in yaml?

[dermotduffy]

Thanks! How is the engine: generic set in yaml?

It'll be autodetected if you use a non-Frigate provided camera. It could be manually set with this in a camera configuration:

type: custom:frigate-card
cameras:
  - camera_entity: camera.sitting_room
    engine: generic

[badnbusy]

I don't have any camera entities defined in Home Assistant as I was using the webrtc card which just requires the go2rtc stream name... do I need to create a generic camera entity and will that make it not be efficient if not using go2rtc then?On 8 Oct 2023 20:43, Dermot Duffy ***@***.***> wrote: Thanks! How is the engine: generic set in yaml? It'll be autodetected if you use a non-Frigate provided camera. It could be manually set with this in a camera configuration: type: custom:frigate-card cameras: - camera_entity: camera.sitting_room engine: generic —Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe.You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[dermotduffy]

I don't have any camera entities defined in Home Assistant as I was using the webrtc card which just requires the go2rtc stream name... do I need to create a generic camera entity and will that make it not be efficient if not using go2rtc then

No entities required at all. Here is a live working config from my dev setup, note the absence of anything home assistant or Frigate related:

type: custom:frigate-card
cameras:
  - live_provider: go2rtc
    go2rtc:
      stream: office
      url: http://my-go2rtc:1984

[badnbusy]

Will this work at present or only with your recent PR to support go2rtc streams?

[dermotduffy]

Will this work at present or only with your recent PR to support go2rtc streams?

You'll need to wait for the v6 release. If you cannot wait, and are prepared to experiment unsupported, you can also install an unreleased version or build your own.

[dermotduffy]

Closing, as I don't think there's anything else to do here!