Community Addons

[kornyhiv]

Hello everyone,

Over the past few weeks, I've been working on a collection of standalone addon scripts designed to simplify the Frigate experience, from initial setup to advanced analytics. I'm excited to share them with the community!
These tools are all single, self-contained bash scripts that deploy Docker-based web UIs. The goal was to create simple, powerful tools that are easy to install and manage.

Here's a breakdown of the addons:

1. Frigate Easy Install Script
   This is an all-in-one installer for getting Frigate up and running on a fresh Debian-based system. It automates dependency installation (Docker, NVIDIA drivers, CUDA), generates a YOLOv9 model, and guides the user through the initial setup.

GitHub Repo: https://github.com/kornyhiv/frigatenvr-easyinstallation

2. Frigate Configurator Addon
   A web GUI to help you discover and configure cameras. It scans your network for ONVIF cameras, allows you to select streams, and easily writes the configuration to your config.yml file. It also includes a button to restart Frigate to apply changes. Option to change all to go2rtsp or back to simple rtsp. Pull available camera streams, etc.

GitHub Repo: https://github.com/kornyhiv/frigatenvr-configurator-addon

3. Frigate Reporter Addon
   A web-based dashboard and reporting tool. It provides at-a-glance analytics, a visual site map, semantic event searching, LPR event logging, and PDF/CSV executive report exporting.

GitHub Repo: https://github.com/kornyhiv/frigatenvr-reporter-addon

4. Frigate Timelapse Addon
   A simple tool to generate timelapses from your Frigate recordings. The UI lets you select a camera, date, and time range, and it automatically detects hardware acceleration (NVIDIA/Intel QSV) to speed up the process.

GitHub Repo: https://github.com/kornyhiv/frigatenvr-timelapse-addon

A Note on Development
These scripts were developed as a fun project in collaboration with Google's Gemini. The entire process, from initial code generation to debugging and refinement, was a partnership to see what was possible.
All projects are provided as-is under the MIT license. I'd love to get your feedback and suggestions!

[yousaf465]

If this is added to main frigate repo it will make it noob friendly.

[yousaf465]

at least this is first step. one click installation or installation wizard guiding through step by step would be wonderful.
windfront frontend for z2m is also maintained by other devs.
https://github.com/Nerivec/zigbee2mqtt-windfront

[NickM-27]

One click installation is the last step, what's the point of making it easy to install if the average person can't configure it without a UI?

That would just lead to us being inundated with support requests, and needing to spend more time helping people who are less familiar with troubleshooting

[yousaf465]

hmm, if this is developed as as separate repo, just like it is currently being done. initial step and adding cameras could be done using gui, while yaml method also available .

[NickM-27]

And to be clear this is not to take away from @kornyhiv for putting these together and offering something to the community, which is always appreciated

[NickM-27]

hmm, if this is developed as as separate repo, just like it is currently being done. initial step and adding cameras could be done using gui, while yaml method also available .

It is much more convenient for the full UI config to be built in to the existing UI so it can all be done in one place, using the same translations infrastructure and UI components. Full UI config in frigate is currently in the planning phase.

[louispires]

Awesome concept! I am really interested in the Timelapse Addon.

Unfortunately, I am not comfortable running random scripts on my Systems, but since it builds a container in the background, we should simply be able to build and upload it to a HUB which can then be easily reused.