After 8+ years of using Zoneminder I’m looking to move to something less resource intensive and have tested Frigate with a USB Coral device and really like how little cpu this uses. Only issue is I can’t figure out how to recreate the ease of use I get by using ZMNinja app on my phone. So, for those of you using Frigate how do you access it remotely on your phone that doesn’t involve first connecting to your home network using VPN/Wireguard/Tailscale?
Currently I use Nginx-Proxy-Manger to forward secure connections to my Zoneminder server and use Zoneminder’s built in authentication.
You can use nginx reverse proxy with basic HTTP auth over SSL. Or even better set up a two factor auth system with nginx. You’ll probably need to set this stuff up in nginx server blocks, I think NPM is pretty limited in what it exposes to the GUI.
I’m not sure what ZM capabilities were but for notifications and stuff like that you can use Home Assistant. That also has some pretty good remote access features if you can put in the time to set it up.
Thanks, I looked into my NPM setup further and turns out the GUI does have an option to create access lists that can be assigned per host. Now I need to look into HA because there is no way I can give access to the Frigate UI to my family as I don’t see any basic monitor and events view that doesn’t also include access to configuration options.