Advanced Camera Card is an MIT-licensed TypeScript card for Home Assistant dashboards that gives self-hosted smart-home users live viewing of multiple cameras alongside clip, snapshot and review browsing inside a single Lovelace card.
What it is
Advanced Camera Card is a front-end card for Home Assistant, written in TypeScript and released under the MIT licence. It is distributed through HACS, where it is listed in the default repository, and it carries its own documentation site alongside the repository. The project was formerly known as Frigate Card, and its topic list still covers frigate together with cctv, nvr and home-assistant, which places it squarely in the home surveillance corner of the Home Assistant ecosystem.
The concrete problem it solves is the presentation layer of a home camera setup: getting many cameras, and the recorded media produced around them, onto one dashboard element that a household can actually read. Instead of stitching together separate views, the card offers live viewing of multiple cameras and a mini-gallery for clips, snapshots and review browsing, with layouts that switch between grid and carousel or swipeable presentations for media, thumbnails and cameras. It supersedes the earlier Frigate Card name under which the project was previously published.
Key capabilities
- Live viewing of multiple cameras within one card, arranged either as a grid or as a carousel and swipeable layout for media, thumbnails and cameras.
- Clips, snapshot and review browsing through a built-in mini-gallery.
- Automatic updating, so the card continually shows the latest clip or snapshot without manual refresh.
- Event filtering by zone and label, for narrowing review browsing to a region or an object class.
- Arbitrary entity access via a menu, for example reaching a motion sensor from the same card.
- Fullscreen mode and direct media downloads from the card itself.
- Lovelace visual editing, full Picture Elements support, and theme-friendly rendering.
Who uses it and how
- Home Assistant operators who run an NVR such as Frigate and want that footage surfaced directly in a dashboard rather than in a separate interface.
- Households with several cameras that need one card showing all of them live, switching between grid and carousel depending on screen space.
- Users reviewing recorded activity who filter events by zone and label to find the relevant clip or snapshot quickly.
- HACS users who prefer to install and update dashboard components through the default HACS repository rather than by hand.
- Anyone who needs to pull media out of the dashboard, using the card's direct media downloads and fullscreen mode.
Getting started
The card is installed through HACS, where it appears in the default repository, with releases published on GitHub. Full setup and configuration documentation is hosted separately at the project's documentation site, linked from the README.
How it compares
The facts provided do not name any competing camera cards, so this project stands alone in this registry. frigate appears in the topic list and in the former Frigate Card name, but that is an NVR the card is built to work with rather than a peer it is measured against.
When to use it — and when not to
This is the right choice if a Home Assistant instance already exists and the missing piece is a dashboard card that unifies live camera feeds with clip, snapshot and review browsing. It is not appropriate for anyone outside Home Assistant, since it is a Lovelace card and has no standalone application. Worth noting honestly: the project carries 156 open issues against roughly 1,197 stars, so expect an active backlog, and the README excerpt itself is little more than a feature list and badges, with installation and configuration detail deferred entirely to the external documentation site.
