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id: third_party_extensions
title: Third Party Extensions
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Being open source, others have the possibility to modify and extend the rich functionality Frigate already offers.
This page is meant to be an overview over additions one can make to the home NVR setup. The list is not exhaustive and can be extended via PR to the Frigate docs. Most of these services are designed to interface with Frigate's unauthenticated api over port 5000.

:::warning

This page does not recommend or rate the presented projects.
Please use your own knowledge to assess and vet them before you install anything on your system.

:::

## [Advanced Camera Card (formerly known as Frigate Card](https://card.camera/#/README)

The [Advanced Camera Card](https://card.camera/#/README) is a Home Assistant dashboard card with deep Frigate integration.

## [cctvQL](https://github.com/arunrajiah/cctvql)

[cctvQL](https://github.com/arunrajiah/cctvql) is a natural language query layer for Frigate and other CCTV systems. It connects to Frigate's REST API and MQTT broker to let you ask conversational questions about cameras and events (e.g. "Was there motion at the front door last night?"), with support for real-time event streaming, anomaly detection, PTZ control, alert rules, and a Home Assistant custom component.

## [Double Take](https://github.com/skrashevich/double-take)

[Double Take](https://github.com/skrashevich/double-take) provides a unified UI and API for processing and training images for facial recognition.
It supports automatically setting the sub labels in Frigate for person objects that are detected and recognized.
This is a fork (with fixed errors and new features) of [original Double Take](https://github.com/jakowenko/double-take) project which, unfortunately, isn't being maintained by author.

## [Frigate Notify](https://github.com/0x2142/frigate-notify)

[Frigate Notify](https://github.com/0x2142/frigate-notify) is a simple app designed to send notifications from Frigate to your favorite platforms. Intended to be used with standalone Frigate installations - Home Assistant not required, MQTT is optional but recommended.

## [Frigate Notify Alert](https://github.com/Sysoev86/frigate-notify-alert)

[Frigate Notify Alert](https://github.com/Sysoev86/frigate-notify-alert) sends Frigate events to Telegram as a photo + video media group. It supports multiple camera groups (each notifying its own chat), optional zone filtering (notify only when an object enters a chosen zone), and in-chat buttons to pause notifications for a set time. Works with standalone Frigate over MQTT; Home Assistant not required.

## [Frigate Snap-Sync](https://github.com/thequantumphysicist/frigate-snap-sync/)

[Frigate Snap-Sync](https://github.com/thequantumphysicist/frigate-snap-sync/) is a program that works in tandem with Frigate. It responds to Frigate when a snapshot or a review is made (and more can be added), and uploads them to one or more remote server(s) of your choice.

## [Frigate telegram](https://github.com/OldTyT/frigate-telegram)

[Frigate telegram](https://github.com/OldTyT/frigate-telegram) makes it possible to send events from Frigate to Telegram. Events are sent as a message with a text description, video, and thumbnail.

## [kiosk-monitor](https://github.com/extremeshok/kiosk-monitor)

[kiosk-monitor](https://github.com/extremeshok/kiosk-monitor) is a Raspberry Pi watchdog that runs Chromium fullscreen on a Frigate dashboard (optionally with VLC on a second monitor for an RTSP camera stream), auto-restarts on frozen screens or unreachable URLs, and ships a Birdseye-aware Chromium helper that auto-sizes the grid to the display.

## [Periscope](https://github.com/maksz42/periscope)

[Periscope](https://github.com/maksz42/periscope) is a lightweight Android app that turns old devices into live viewers for Frigate. It works on Android 2.2 and above, including Android TV. It supports authentication and HTTPS.

## [Scrypted - Frigate bridge plugin](https://github.com/apocaliss92/scrypted-frigate-bridge)

[Scrypted - Frigate bridge](https://github.com/apocaliss92/scrypted-frigate-bridge) is a plugin that allows you to ingest Frigate detections, motion, videoclips on Scrypted as well as provide templates to export rebroadcast configurations on Frigate.

## [Strix](https://github.com/eduard256/Strix)

[Strix](https://github.com/eduard256/Strix) auto-discovers working stream URLs for IP cameras and generates ready-to-use Frigate configs. It tests thousands of URL patterns against your camera and supports cameras without RTSP or ONVIF. 67K+ camera models from 3.6K+ brands.
