Home Assistant network storage
As of Home Assistant Core 2023.6, Network Mounted Storage is supported for addons.
Setting Up Remote Storage For Frigate​
Prerequisites​
- HA Core 2023.6 or newer is installed
- Running HA OS 10.2 or newer OR Running Supervised with latest os-agent installed (this is required for supervised install)
Initial Setup​
- Stop the Frigate addon
- Update your config so the DB is stored in the /config directory by adding:
database:
path: /config/frigate.db
Move current data​
Keeping the current data is optional, but the data will need to be moved regardless so the share can be created successfully.
If you want to keep the current data​
- Move the frigate.db, frigate.db-shm, frigate.db-wal files to the /config directory
- Rename the /media/frigate folder to /media/frigate_tmp
If you don't want to keep the current data​
- Delete the /media/frigate folder and all of its contents
Create the media share​
- Go to Settings -> System -> Storage -> Add Network Storage
- Name the share
frigate
(this is required) - Choose type
media
- Fill out the additional required info for your particular NAS
- Connect
- Move files from
/media/frigate_tmp
to/media/frigate
if they were kept in previous step - Start the Frigate addon