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# Frigate Lovelace Card
A full-featured Frigate Lovelace card:
* Live viewing.
* Clips and snapshot browsing via mini-gallery.
* Automatic updating to continually show latest clip / snapshot.
* Support for filtering events by zone and label.
* Motion sensor access.
* Full Lovelace editing support.
* Theme friendly.
* **Advanced**: Support for [WebRTC](https://github.com/AlexxIT/WebRTC) live viewing.
## Installation
* Add the custom repository:
```
Home Assistant > HACS > Integrations > [...] > Custom Repositories
```
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| Key | Value |
| -------------- | --------------------------------------------- |
| Repository URL | https://github.com/dermotduffy/frigate-hass-card |
| Category | Lovelace / Plugin |
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* Use [HACS](https://hacs.xyz/) to install the card:
```
Home Assistant > HACS > Integrations > "Explore & Add Integrations" > Frigate Card
```
* Add the following to `configuration.yaml`:
```yaml
lovelace:
resources:
- url: /hacsfiles/frigate-hass-card/frigate-hass-card.js
type: module
```
* Restart Home Assistant.
* Add the new card to the Lovelace configuration!
## Options
### Required
| Option | Default | Description |
| ------------- | - | --------------------------------------------- |
| `camera_entity` | | The Frigate camera entity to show by default on the card.|
| `frigate_url` | | The URL of the frigate server. Must be manually specified, as the URL from the underlying device is not available to Lovelace cards.|
### Optional
| Option | Default | Description |
| ------------- | --------------------------------------------- | - |
| `motion_entity` | | A binary sensor to show in the menu (e.g. a Frigate motion binary sensor) and to use to trigger card updates.|
| `frigate_camera_name` | The string after the "camera." in the `camera_entity` option (above). | This parameter allows the camera name heuristic to be overriden for cases where the entity name does not cleanly map to the Frigate camera name.|
| `view_default` | `live` | The view to show by default. See [views](#views) below.|
| `menu_mode` | `hidden` | The menu mode to show by default. See [menu modes](#menu-modes) below.|
| `view_timeout` | | A numbers of seconds of inactivity after which the card will reset to the default configured view. Inactivity is defined as lack of interaction with the Frigate menu.|
| `autoplay_clip` | `false` | Whether or not to autoplay clips in the 'clip' [view](#views). Clips manually chosen in the clips gallery will still autoplay.|
### Advanced
| Option | Default | Description |
| ------------- | - | --------------------------------------------- |
| `label` | | A label used to filter events (clips & snapshots), e.g. 'person'.|
| `zone` | | A zone used to filter events (clips & snapshots), e.g. 'front_door'.|
<a name="webrtc"></a>
### WebRTC Options
WebRTC support allows the use of the ultra-realtime [WebRTC live view](https://github.com/AlexxIT/WebRTC) along with the event browsing of Frigate. A perfect combination!
Note: WebRTC must be installed and configured separately (see [details](https://github.com/AlexxIT/WebRTC)).
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dermotduffy/frigate-hass-card/main/images/webrtc.png" alt="Live viewing" width="400px">
| Option | Default | Description |
| ------------- | - | -------------------------------------------- |
| `live_provider` | | Whether `frigate` or `webrtc` should provide the live camera view.|
| `webrtc.entity` | | The RTSP entity to use with WebRTC.|
| `webrtc.*`| | Any other options in a `webrtc:` YAML dictionary are silently passed through to WebRTC. See [WebRTC Configuration](https://github.com/AlexxIT/WebRTC#configuration) for full details this external card provides.|
<a name="views"></a>
## Views
This card supports several different views.
| Key | Description |
| ------------- | --------------------------------------------- |
|`live` (default)| Shows the live camera view, either the name Frigate view or [WebRTC](#webrtc) if configured.|
|`snapshots`|Shows the snapshot gallery for this camera/zone/label.|
|`snapshot`|Shows the most recent snapshot for this camera/zone/label.|
|`clips`|Shows the clip gallery for this camera/zone/label.|
|`clip`|Shows the most recent clip for this camera/zone/label.|
### Automatic updates in the `clip` or `snapshot` view
Updates will occur whenever the state of the `camera_entity` or `motion_entity`
changes. In particular, if the desire is to have a live view of the most recent
event, the user should configure `motion_entity` to a Frigate binary sensor
associated with that camera in order to trigger updates more regularly (the
underlying camera entity state does not change often, the motion binary sensors
do).
### Getting from a snapshot to a clip
Clicking on a snapshot will take the user to the clip associated with the
snapshot (if any).
### Getting event details
More details about an event can be found by clicking the 'globe' icon in the
menu, which takes the user to the Frigate page for that event.
## Menu Modes
This card supports several menu configurations.
| Key | Description | Screenshot |
| ------------- | --------------------------------------------- | - |
|`hidden` (default)| Hide the menu by default, expandable upon clicking the 'F' button. | <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dermotduffy/frigate-hass-card/main/images/menu-mode-hidden.png" alt="Menu hidden" width="400px"> |
|`overlay`| Overlay the menu on top of the card contents. The 'F' button shows the default view. | <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dermotduffy/frigate-hass-card/main/images/menu-mode-overlay.png" alt="Menu overlaid" width="400px"> |
|`above`| Render the menu above the card. The 'F' button shows the default view. | <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dermotduffy/frigate-hass-card/main/images/menu-mode-above.png" alt="Menu above" width="400px"> |
|`below`| Render the menu below the card. The 'F' button shows the default view. | <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dermotduffy/frigate-hass-card/main/images/menu-mode-below.png" alt="Menu below" width="400px"> |
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### Example YAML Configuration
A configuration that uses WebRTC for live:
```yaml
- type: 'custom:frigate-card'
camera_entity: camera.front_door
frigate_url: http://frigate
motion_entity: binary_sensor.front_door_person_motion
live_provider: webrtc
webrtc:
entity: camera.front_door_rtsp
```
A configuration that shows the latest clip on load, but does not automatically play it:
```yaml
- type: 'custom:frigate-card'
camera_entity: camera.front_door
frigate_url: http://frigate
motion_entity: binary_sensor.front_door_person_motion
view_default: clip
```
### Screenshot: Snapshot / Clip Gallery
Full viewing of clips:
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dermotduffy/frigate-hass-card/main/images/gallery.png" alt="Gallery" width="400px">
## Card Editing
This card supports full editing via the Lovelace card editor. Additional arbitrary configuration for WebRTC may be specified in YAML mode.
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dermotduffy/frigate-hass-card/main/images/editor.png" alt="Live viewing" width="400px">