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ONVIF integration failing with “Couldn’t connect to camera x, please verify that the credentials are correct. Error: Invalid data”
A few weeks ago I noticed that I was unable to view one of my CCTV cameras from within Home Assistant. After some investigation on the ONVIF integration I noticed the below error: ONVIF integration failing with "Couldn't connect to camera x, please verify that the credentials are correct. Error: Invalid data" I checked the credentials set for the camera and confirmed that the credentials were not the issue. After some research I found this github issue which pointed me to NTP. I then logged into the camera itself and enabled NTP as per the picture below. I then refreshed the integration in Home Assistant and the integration managed to…
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Frigate won’t start [Errno 111] Connection refused
I updated my Debian server and noticed that Frigate won’t start up. My Frigate NVR is running on a Docker container and checking the logs I found that predominantly the error [Errno 111] Connection refused popped up. I also received an error about unable to connect to MQTT and then realised that I need to check MQTT. I am using Home Assistant as my MQTT broker and found that after updating Home Assistant the MQTT service did not start and was set to not start at boot. I managed to run and connect to Frigate after the MQTT service on Home Assistant was started and set to start at boot.…
