In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to build a complete traffic monitoring dashboard using a stack of powerful open-source tools:
Frigate NVR –
https://docs.frigate.video/Node-RED –
https://nodered.org/docs/MQTT –
https://mqtt.org/getting-started/InfluxDB –
https://docs.influxdata.com/Grafana –
https://grafana.com/docs/I’ll walk you through how to connect these tools together so you can:
Track how busy the road outside your house is in real time
Collect and store historical data on traffic flow
Build an attractive, custom Grafana dashboard to visualise the patterns
This video is perfect if you’re into home automation, data visualisation, or just want to learn how these technologies integrate step by step.
Chapters:
00:00 - Intro to the concept
01:04 - Intro to Frigate
01:26 - Intro to MQTT
01:57 - Intro to Node-RED
02:16 - Intro to InfluxDB
03:00 - Intro to Grafana
03:20 - Here's one I made earlier
04:00 - Configure Frigate to use MQTT
04:53 - Finding the right MQTT topic to use
06:33 - Another one I made earlier
08:34 - Building our Node-RED flow
14:15 - Verifying our data is in InfluxDB
15:14 - Getting our data into Grafana
20:43 - Outro