On top of these successes discussed in this thread, I had some sterling assistance from @stavros-k which showed me how to extract the docher compose yaml used by the official ix-app and use it as a “pure” docker compose divorced from the app UI (in my case used via dockge, itself an ix-app).
/mnt/.ix-apps/app_configs/frigate/<version>/templates/rendered/docker-compose.yaml is the source in question.
I am still using ix-Frigate (the app) but I can now experiment with e.g. beta versions by using the extracted docker compose yaml.
