Support direct ingress links to specific add-on subpages (e.g. click to view a given Frigate camera streams)

[ReX1983]

Describe the feature

When running Frigate as a HA add-on, camera streams are only accessible by manually clicking on the specific camera from the Frigate homepage (/ccab4aaf_frigate-fa/ingress/). Currently, there is no way to use a direct ingress URL to a specific camera (e.g., /live/doorbell) as ingress doesn't allow such links.

The feature request is to add support for direct ingress links that map to a Frigate camera feed, for example:

• http://:8123/ccab4aaf_frigate-fa/ingress/live/doorbell
• http://:8123/ccab4aaf_frigate-fa/ingress/live/garden

This would allow users to open a specific add-on page (e.g. the live stream from a given camera) when clicking on a mobile notification.

Use cases

• Notifications: Open the ingress link to a specific camera stream directly from a Home Assistant notification (e.g., tap a “Doorbell Pressed” notification and immediately see the doorbell camera).
• Dashboards: Add a button or iframe card in Lovelace that goes straight to the doorbell camera view.
• Smart Home Integrations: External systems (like wall panels or task launchers) could open the ingress URL to the camera without needing a separate port exposed.

Current workarounds

• Expose Frigate’s internal port (5000): bypass ingress and access Frigate directly at http://:5000/live/doorbell. This works but defeats the purpose of ingress and forces users to open links in the browser instead of the HA Android/iOS apps.
• Open the Frigate homepage and manually navigate to the feed/page of interest: this solution doesn't work in an emergency situation, when you want to get to the live view as soon as possible.

Anything else?

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[veilofsecurity]

Just came searching for the exact same thing but to the review page. Been using the /api/hassio-ingress endpoint to get there and it works on a computer but doesn't seem to on iOS. Proper support would be great.

[ReX1983]

How do you use /api/hassio/ingress/? I am curious to see if this works with the Android mobile app.

Assume I want to open the following url: http://www.mywebsite.com/ccab4aaf_frigate-fa/ingress/live/doorbell, what would I use instead with the api/hassio/ingress route?

[veilofsecurity]

So it looks like this is why it only works on my computer. There is a session specific token in the URL (I incorrectly assumed it was an add-on identifier). The one I grabbed was from my computer so it makes sense that only my computer works. In theory you could grab the token from your Android device but it would only work on that one device, all others would get a 401.

[ReX1983]

Ah, I see. I tried but the token expire and doesn't seem to work on Android either, where you need the navigate path. I think we need this sorted in ingress.

[DeCodeerHeer]

I've been working on a household app I would like to expose within Home Assistant through Ingress for easy hosting, user management and tight integration. One crucial part of the app is deeplinking, allowing me to scan a QR code and directly open the Home Assistant app, navigate to my addon and open up a specific page for an item in storage for more information. I have tried several techniques but Ingress is pretty closed off, not letting anything through.

Example of deeplink attempt: homeassistant://navigate/<addon>/ingress/storage/10

This is a huge bummer as such extensions on top of Home Assistant make it feel like a complete app.

To add to this, it would be nice to have the possibilities for shorter url's to allow for smaller QR codes or deeplinks.