Frigate: Enabling Clips and Advanced Object Detection (pt2)
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Frigate: Enabling Clips and Advanced Object Detection (pt2)

In this guide, we’ll be taking our Home Assistant Frigate install to the next level with advanced object detection. We will be playing around with Masks and Zones, configuring Frigate to detect specific objects (such as dogs or vehicles), and enabling the snapshots and clips feature to save locally or to a network share. Let’s…

Edit Home Assistant Config Files in a Browser using VSCode
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Edit Home Assistant Config Files in a Browser using VSCode

In this guide, I’m going to show you how to setup and use the Visual Studio Code Community Addon to use VSCode directly from your Home Assistant web interface. This will completely eliminate the need to use File Editor to edit your configuration.yaml file. To access Home Assistant from a locally installed version of Visual…

Edit Home Assistant Config Files From Locally Installed Visual Studio Code
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Edit Home Assistant Config Files From Locally Installed Visual Studio Code

In this guide, I’m going to show you how to access and edit Home Assistant configuration files from Visual Studio Code (installed locally on your computer). To do this, we are installing the Samba Share addon, installing the Home Assistant Config Helper extension in VSCode, and then opening the Samba share from VSCode. This guide…

How To Install Frigate in Home Assistant for Object Detection (pt1)
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How To Install Frigate in Home Assistant for Object Detection (pt1)

In this guide, I’ll be showing you how to setup Frigate in Home Assistant. This is the first truly step-by-step Frigate install guide that I’ve found (other than a 42 minute long EverythingSmartHome video, which is fantastic). So, for those of you who’d prefer to install Frigate by reading a written tutorial instead of a…

How To Get Home Assistant, Addons, and HACS Update Alerts
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How To Get Home Assistant, Addons, and HACS Update Alerts

Do you want get alerts or notifications Home Assistant has an update? What about getting alerts when an HACS integration has an update? In this guide, I’ll show you exactly how to do that. If getting update notifications and alerts isn’t your thing, I will also show you how to put that information into a…