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Security Camera Person Detection that just works! How to Setup Frigate with Home Assistant

A Complete Walkthrough of setting up Frigate AI Detection for use with Home Assistant or many other home automation systems that support MQTT.  Frigate is free, open source and easy to install/maintain.  

Frigate Project - https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate

Sample Frigate Config.yml - https://github.com/digiblur/unraid-docker-templates/blob/master/sample-files/frigate_sample_config.yml

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