Third post on cameras. Last time I had

  • frigate with feeds from two cameras.
  • frigate sending messages to home assistant via MQTT
  • Home assistant opening the gate.

This time I set up detection of cars for both cameras. I don’t want people opening them all the time. This featured writing a home assistant automation using MQTT directly, which is working fine. After some debugging, I had this working ok. It works surprisingly well.

Next, on the outer side, I set up frigate plate recognizer to detect if it was one of our plates on the car that showed up. If it is, open!

Debugging this featured driving in and out of the car several times. I’m sure this looked totally normal.

I also found a external HD to put all frigate’s data on. So far so good.