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Installation

Prerequisites

Before installing Notifications for Frigate, make sure you have:

  1. Home Assistant 2025.6 or newer
  2. Frigate NVR v0.16.0 or newer (v0.17.0+ required for Generative AI summary notifications)
  3. MQTT configured in Home Assistant and working for Frigate
  4. Frigate integration installed and configured in Home Assistant
  5. iOS or Android Companion App on your device (or Android TV / Fire TV integration for TV overlays)

Why MQTT matters: this integration subscribes to Frigate review events from the ${topic_prefix}/reviews MQTT topic (usually frigate/reviews).

Open your Home Assistant instance and open a repository inside the Home Assistant Community Store.

Click the badge above, or add manually:

  1. Open HACS in Home Assistant
  2. Go to Integrations
  3. Click the three-dot menu (top right) and select Custom repositories
  4. Paste the repository URL: https://github.com/daptify14/hass-frigate-notifications
  5. Select Integration as the category and click Add
  6. Close the custom repositories dialog
  7. Search for "Notifications for Frigate" in the HACS integrations list
  8. Click Download and confirm the version
  9. Restart Home Assistant

Manual installation

  1. Download the latest release from GitHub
  2. Extract and copy the custom_components/frigate_notifications directory into your Home Assistant config/custom_components/ directory
  3. Restart Home Assistant

Setup

After installation and restart:

  1. Go to Settings > Devices & Services
  2. Click "Add Integration"
  3. Search for "Notifications for Frigate"
  4. Select the Frigate instance to bind to (if you have multiple)
  5. The integration is now active, proceed to Getting started to create your first notification profile

Note: The integration creates one config entry per Frigate instance. If you have multiple Frigate NVRs, add one entry per NVR.

Removal

Remove the integration

Settings > Devices & Services > Notifications for Frigate > three-dot menu > Delete.

Uninstall the code

  • HACS: HACS > Integrations > Notifications for Frigate > Remove
  • Manual: delete the custom_components/frigate_notifications directory and restart HA

What gets removed

Deleting the integration removes all associated devices, entities, config entry data, in-memory review state, and any active repair issues. MQTT subscriptions are cleaned up on unload. No files are written to disk beyond the HA config entry, so there is nothing else to clean up.