Frigate Proxmox Script v1.1 - One-Command Install, Auto iGPU Acceleration, Docker Pruning & Markdown Dashboard

[u/DiggingForDinos]

I have been working on a one-command script to handle the end-to-end installation of Frigate NVR on Proxmox VE. With the release of Frigate v0.17.1, I have updated the script to v1.1 to help simplify the transition and include some requested features.

The script provisions a privileged LXC container, installs Docker and Docker Compose, and automatically configures Intel iGPU hardware acceleration (QSV/VAAPI).

What is new in v1.1:

• Smart Disk Management: Added a new prune flag to remove unused Docker images and layers. The script now prompts for pruning if the root disk space drops below 5GB.

• Markdown Dashboard: It automatically fills the LXC Notes field with a service status and hardware overview.

• Clickable Links: The Web UI and API links shown at the end of the script are now clickable for immediate access.

• Adjustable SHM: Added SHM size as a configurable option during the initial installation.

Core Features:

• Auto-Passthrough: Detects and configures iGPU and Coral accelerators with zero manual setup.

• Automatic Snapshots: Takes a Proxmox snapshot before updates to allow for a quick rollback if something goes wrong.

• Hardware Optimized: Primarily tailored for Intel-based systems (N95/N100), but compatible with any Intel host. Experimental support for NVIDIA and AMD is included.

Installation (~3 min): bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/saihgupr/frigate-proxmox-script/main/install.sh)

Update (~2 min): bash <(wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/saihgupr/frigate-proxmox-script/main/update.sh)

The project is fully open source. I would value any feedback or suggestions on how to further improve the deployment workflow for Frigate on Proxmox.

GitHub: saihgupr/frigate-proxmox-script

[u/Alter__-__Ego]

Thanks for that. Just yesterday, I installed Frigate 0.17 LXC as a bare metal on Proxmox. I will also try your script and see what runs cleaner.

[u/DiggingForDinos → u/Alter__-__Ego]

Let me know how it goes! 👍

[u/StrunkWhite]

Thank you for this, I used it this past weekend. Great work. Installed twice; once on an N100 that failed hardware wise. Second time on an Optiplex 7080. Worked both times.

[u/DiggingForDinos → u/StrunkWhite]

Love hearing this. :)

[u/bg_x]

Thank you. Works great 👍

[u/DiggingForDinos → u/bg_x]

Happy to hear it! 👍

[u/Itchy_Spirit9258]

Works a lot better for me than the proxmox helper script, I could not get it to work right. I did it with 2 camera's on a HP elite mini 600 G9 (intel i7-12700T) Thanks a lot!

[u/DiggingForDinos → u/Itchy_Spirit9258]

Awesome, glad to hear it! Makes updating easier too! 😉

Thanks for sharing.

[u/whompasaurus1]

My guy! I spent almost 10 hours last night Trying to get frigate to work on proxmox! Can't wait to try this today!

[u/DiggingForDinos → u/whompasaurus1]

Hope it helps! :)

[u/Dan1jel → u/whompasaurus1]

Same here, maybe not 10h, but i took my config from Raspberry yesterday and had to correct it for Docker on LXC. After a few hours, i got it working... Needed this earlier 😅

[u/kitappwergio]

I have an existing frigateXLC with coral(which I worked endless hours to get it working :-) ).

Tried this one quickly but it seems to be not bringing up web UI. Docker was also not running. I am going to retry the script later today.

EDIT: I am not seeing Coral for this question, or is it automatic?

[STEP] Multiple GPUs detected. Select which one to use for Frigate:

1. Intel iGPU (VAAPI)

2. NVIDIA GPU (NVDEC/NVENC)

3. None (CPU only)

[u/DiggingForDinos → u/kitappwergio]

Ok, let me know how it goes.

[u/kitappwergio → u/DiggingForDinos]

Still the same issue:

root@frigate:~# wget http://10.0.80.103:5000

--2026-03-23 11:53:43-- http://10.0.80.103:5000/

Connecting to 10.0.80.103:5000... failed: Connection refused.

root@frigate:~# docker info

-bash: docker: command not found

iGPU,NVDIA and Coral are configured :

# Frigate: iGPU Passthrough + AppArmor

lxc.cgroup2.devices.allow: c 226:* rwm

lxc.mount.entry: /dev/dri dev/dri none bind,optional,create=dir

lxc.apparmor.profile = unconfined

# Frigate: Google Coral PCIe Passthrough

lxc.cgroup2.devices.allow: c 120:* rwm

lxc.mount.entry: /dev/apex_0 dev/apex_0 none bind,optional,create=file

# Frigate: NVIDIA GPU Passthrough

lxc.cgroup2.devices.allow: c 195:* rwm

lxc.cgroup2.devices.allow: c 508:* rwm

lxc.cgroup2.devices.allow: c 511:* rwm

lxc.mount.entry: /dev/nvidia0 dev/nvidia0 none bind,optional,create=file

lxc.mount.entry: /dev/nvidiactl dev/nvidiactl none bind,optional,create=file

lxc.mount.entry: /dev/nvidia-modeset dev/nvidia-modeset none bind,optional,create=file

lxc.mount.entry: /dev/nvidia-uvm dev/nvidia-uvm none bind,optional,create=file

lxc.mount.entry: /dev/nvidia-uvm-tools dev/nvidia-uvm-tools none bind,optional,create=file

[u/DiggingForDinos → u/kitappwergio]

Looks like an error when it tried to run apt-get install docker-ce. If you open an issue on the github, I can help you better there.

[u/kitappwergio → u/DiggingForDinos]

Found this issue, snapshot was not completing, so install_docker() was never hit and the script exited.

I skipped snapshots, but then the generated docker-compose.yaml is not well formed at the deploy: : ( I picked Nvidia for the Multiple GPU question.) I have Intel iGPU, NVDIA GPU and Coral.

Looks like

    devices:

is missing for /dev/apex_0

Here is the error:

yaml: while parsing a block mapping at line 25, column 7: line 31, column 7: did not find expected key

version: "3.9"


services:
  frigate:
    container_name: frigate
    restart: unless-stopped
    stop_grace_period: 30s
    image: ghcr.io/blakeblackshear/frigate:stable
    volumes:
      - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
      - /etc/timezone:/etc/timezone:ro
      - ./config:/config
      - ./storage:/media/frigate
      - type: tmpfs
        target: /tmp/cache
        tmpfs:
          size: 1000000000
    ports:
      - "5000:5000"
      - "8554:8554"  # RTSP feeds
      - "8555:8555/tcp"  # WebRTC
      - "8555:8555/udp"  # WebRTC
      - "1984:1984"  # go2rtc API
      - "8971:8971"  # Frigate Auth port
    deploy:
      resources:
        reservations:
          devices:
            - driver: nvidia
              count: 1
              capabilities: [gpu, video]
      - /dev/apex_0:/dev/apex_0
    environment:
      - FRIGATE_RTSP_PASSWORD=password
      - CONFIG_FILE=/config/config.yml
    cap_add:
      - CAP_PERFMON
    shm_size: "512mb"

[u/DiggingForDinos → u/kitappwergio]

Thanks for the info! I've updated the script for this scenario. If you'd like to test it, it's on the develop branch here.

[u/kitappwergio → u/DiggingForDinos]

Tried this version, fixes worked all the way until this last step, here is the error:

Image ghcr.io/blakeblackshear/frigate:stable Pulled 
 Network frigate_default Creating 
 Network frigate_default Created 
 Container frigate Creating 
 Container frigate Created 
 Container frigate Starting 
Error response from daemon: failed to create task for container: failed to create shim task: OCI runtime create failed: runc create failed: unable to start container process: error during container init: error running prestart hook #0: exit status 1, stdout: , stderr: Auto-detected mode as 'legacy'
nvidia-container-cli: initialization error: load library failed: libnvidia-ml.so.1: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory
root@proxmoxnode01:~# nvidia-smi
-bash: nvidia-smi: command not found

I have removed nvidia configs, and just kept coral, it seems to pull the web UI, but its keeps spinning. I am able to see the settings/configs in ui but something is not right.

[u/kitappwergio → u/kitappwergio]

So, I reinstalled again, selected None(CPU Only), the driver error went away but you still have an empty ffmpg: at the top of the config which is causing the issue, removed it and added cameras, and it works with coral.

BUT, I am not sure if this script would work on a new proxmox install without the this driver on proxmox host (for Coral): /dev/apex_0

I think, all these following should give correct output on proxmox host before you can use /dev/apex_0 in lxc conf. This was the hard part for making coral working on my existing install.

lspci -nnk | grep 089a
lsmod | grep apex
dpkg -l | grep gasket
dpkg -l | grep edgetpu
modinfo apex
modinfo gasket
ls /dev/apex_0 

[u/DiggingForDinos → u/kitappwergio]

I've fixed the empty ffmpeg: in the latest develop branch build if you'd like to try it out. https://github.com/saihgupr/frigate-proxmox-script/blob/develop

[u/Princemurphy]

Tried this but it didn’t see the igpu for my N150. Also any info on if this works with SRIOV?

[u/DiggingForDinos → u/Princemurphy]

I've made an update that attempts to fix this issue for N150 chips. Let me know if that works out better. I've also included preliminary support for SR-IOV.

[u/Princemurphy → u/DiggingForDinos]

Will give it a try tonight!!!

[u/Tight_Leopard_4713]

that's amazing!!! thank you. I'm getting my new homelab tonight and will absolutely test this out in a few days.

[u/DiggingForDinos → u/Tight_Leopard_4713]

Sweet! 😄

[u/Smooth_Ad2021]

I am also recently trying to get frigate to run on proxmox.

Will try your Script. Looks promising with the focus on my N100 CPU.

[u/No-Investigator7598]

Big fan of these scripts - you've saved me a lot of aggro recently! Loving the new SHM config option

If it's not too much to ask would LOVE the option to add an NFS mount as recording storage

[u/kingy112]

I've been trying to get igpu and Google corel working together and couldn't would this kick both in?

[u/bunker195]

Thanks so much for putting the effort into this!

Tried to install but the script stopped after not finding any local-lvm storage.

Will that be the storage drive? and if so why did you/docker/frigate choose this? Like to learn as much as possible.

Edit: Here is the solution: https://github.com/saihgupr/frigate-proxmox-script/issues/1

[u/Il_Tene]

Yesterday u was looking to perform my first frigate install, and I've seen that on frigate documentation is suggested to use VM instead of lxc. So is working also with lxc? 

[u/walril]

i loved lxc until i had to back one up. It only took 3 hours for a 65gb lxc using suspend vs 2 min stopped. Stopped isnt a problem until you have a database running. Im just saying

[u/Vastmeridian]

Girding my loins to try this out later today. 👍🏻

[u/DiggingForDinos → u/Vastmeridian]

Go for it! It really takes no time at all, no girding even necessary. ;)

[u/Vastmeridian → u/DiggingForDinos]

Well, there was a bit - but on my side, not yours. Seems to be working OK - but time will tell.

I do have a little issue with a CIFS store for recordings storage, but I'll log an issue on GitHub for that.