I’m attempting Genai integration in Frigate with Ollama.
I’ve tried localhost, my pc IP , host.docker…. I’ve tried all of them.
Logs in Frigate constantly post “Ollama provider has not been initialized, a description will not be generated. Check your Ollama configuration.”
No idea what to do. Note: These instances are on the same machine
The first thing we need to verify is whether Frigate can actually reach your Ollama server.
Could you please post:
Your genai: section from your Frigate configuration (remove any sensitive information if needed).
How Ollama is installed (ZimaOS App Store, Docker Compose, or custom container).
Then, from the Frigate container, run:
docker exec -it frigate wget -qO- http://<OLLAMA_IP>:11434/api/tags
Replace <OLLAMA_IP> with the IP or hostname you’re using in your Frigate configuration.
If that command returns your installed models, we know the network connection is working and can focus on the Frigate configuration. If it fails, then the issue is connectivity between Frigate and Ollama rather than Frigate itself.
“/bin/sh: 1: docker: not found” is the response