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
That response means you ran the command inside a container terminal. Docker CLI is available on the ZimaOS host, not normally inside the Frigate container.
Please exit that terminal, connect to ZimaOS through SSH, and run:
docker ps --format 'table {{.Names}}\t{{.Image}}\t{{.Networks}}' | grep -Ei 'NAMES|frigate|ollama'
Post the complete output. This will verify the exact container names, images and Docker networks before we test connectivity again. My earlier instruction should have made the required host terminal clearer.