Frigate initial usr/pass issue

There is an issue uder Fangtooth with the Frigate app. Have no clue whose fault it is and mabye it is even my fault but it is an issue.

If you follow the basic setup of the app in truenas, it is supposed to log the default user/pass in the logs. I could not find the log initially, then when I did find it there was no default user/pass in it.

I had stopped and started it trying to find the log file (the log icon on the side bar under workloads scrolls every few seconds and you can’t stop it long enough to actually find anything. Stopping the app so the log don’t scroll makes everything under Workloads disappear including the icons. Restarting the app apparently gets rid of the user/pass or clears the log and starts a new one.
To find the log you have to know exactly where to look for the log in the first place from ssh or use posted commands from a forum search to find the information.
This is all garbage if you ask me.
So:
1.) why can’t the frigate app truenas setup have places to set the default admin user and default password like other apps? This would be the best solution.

2.) lacking the above why isn’t the No auth port a default and prefilled in with a port number like the Auth port number is? It used to do that in earlier versions of Truenas

It me over an hour to figure out that the log in my case for whatever reason had no default user or password logged in it and that I needed to add a No Auth port number to the setup and restart to get the No Auth Web UI button the show up so I could access the Web UI and add a user able to access it from the regular web ui.

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I am still using Fangtooth… 100% found exactly the same issue trying to set up the Frigate app today.. did you work out a solution? Is this fixed with Goldeneye? OMG!!!

@solarNAS
No I don’t think it is going to be fixed. At least not from what I understand, but things could always change in the future.

You are supposed to on the initial run of the app open the notes for the app thats on the app page and get the password that was generated. Security from the administrator by obscurity I guess. On some apps the notes continue to scroll and so you can never get to the top where the password is. Even if that happens the view logs shows you the container id so you can find it in the next step below so remember the last four or so characters of the id.

You can from the command line access the server System -->Shell or use a ssh session command line and view the log file from mc (Midnight Commander - type mc at the command prompt) navigate to /mnt/.ix-apps/docker/containers This is where all the running containers are find the one that matches the id (last 4 characters is fine) open that container directory and the log file can be viewed from there. The log file ends in -json.log
To view the log in mc just click on it to hi-lite it and press F3 (or click on view on bottom toolbar #3 button) Find and write down the password and press F3 again to close the view and F10 to exit mc