Community resources
The tools in the Argus stack (Frigate, OPNsense, ZFS, Home Assistant, Docker) each have active communities and thorough documentation. This page collects the places worth bookmarking when you want to go deeper than what's covered here, or when you run into something unusual that needs a wider perspective.
Frigate
Documentation: docs.frigate.video
The official Frigate docs cover every configuration option in config.yml, the full list of supported detectors, advanced recording modes, MQTT integration, and the Frigate API. When this guide says "see Frigate's documentation for advanced options," this is where that points.
GitHub: github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate Source code, issue tracker, and release notes. If you're seeing unexpected behavior and want to know if it's a known issue or a recent change, the GitHub issues and discussions are the right place to check.
Discord: Listed on the Frigate GitHub page under community links. Active community with a mix of developers and users. Good for configuration questions that go beyond what the docs cover, and for seeing how others have set up similar camera arrangements.
Home Assistant
Documentation: home-assistant.io/docs Comprehensive reference for integrations, automations, scripts, dashboards, and the YAML configuration system. The integration pages are especially useful: search for any device or service you want to connect and the integration page will walk you through it.
Community forums: community.home-assistant.io Large, active forum. Useful for automation help, integration troubleshooting, and finding configurations others have built for common use cases.
Subreddit: r/homeassistant More informal than the forums. Good for quick questions, inspiration, and keeping up with what the community is building.
OPNsense
Documentation: docs.opnsense.org Official OPNsense documentation covering firewall rules, VLANs, DHCP, plugins, and the web interface in detail. When the LAN Foundry VLAN guides describe the concept, the OPNsense docs describe every specific option you'll encounter in the UI.
Forum: forum.opnsense.org The primary support community for OPNsense questions. Firewall rule questions, plugin issues, and network topology discussions all appear here. Searching before posting usually surfaces existing answers.
ZFS
OpenZFS documentation: openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs
The authoritative reference for ZFS concepts, pool management commands, tuning, and data recovery. If you want to understand what zpool commands are doing under the hood, this is the place to go.
Self-hosted and privacy
r/selfhosted: reddit.com/r/selfhosted A broad community around running your own services. Useful for discovering tools you didn't know existed, getting real-world takes on software choices, and finding guides for services like Nextcloud, Jellyfin, AdGuard Home, and others mentioned in the hardware potential guide.
Awesome Self-Hosted: awesome-selfhosted.net A curated list of self-hostable software organized by category. If you want to find a self-hosted alternative to a specific commercial service, this is the fastest way to survey the options.
Privacy Guides: privacyguides.org Recommendations for privacy-respecting software and services across operating systems, browsers, email, and more. Useful context for the broader goal of reducing how much of your data flows through third-party infrastructure.
LAN Foundry
For questions about your Argus system specifically, configuration help, or anything in this documentation library:
Email: support@lanfoundry.com
General inquiries and product questions:
Email: info@lanfoundry.com
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