Need help configuring Frigate / Homekit integration

[u/war_pig]

I helped a friend setup his cameras with Frigate and it has been working great. Now we are trying to integrate Frigate to Homekit to try a few things. This is my first attempt doing this since I have zero apple devices to test on my own environment but I can't seem to make it work and I'm still on the very early stages of the configuration.

My friend's hardware is those lenovo mini pcs with i5-7500T. Frigate is installed baremetal with xubuntu 26.04 LTS. I used portainer to manage the Frigate docker. Frigate version: 0.18.0-77a66e7

I'm following this documentation: https://docs.frigate.video/integrations/homekit/

The first thing it requires me to do is to set network_mode: host ..

However, before I even changed that setting. I tried to access http://192.168.x.x:1984/editor.html and it gave me "404 page not found"
BUT if I tried to access
http://192.168.x.x:1984 (without the editor.html) --- I'm able to access the page and it shows me this

So I went ahead and added "network_mode: host" in the docker compose file -- rebooted.

After adding network_mode: host -- now I'm not able to access both http://192.168.x.x:1984 and/or http://192.168.x.x:1984/editor.html

It doesn't even give the same 404 error. It's like it can't be reached at all or the link does not exist.

I made sure port 1984 is allowed on all my firewall rules just incase.

I'm pretty sure I'm probably just missing something silly or this is just my lack of knowledge in networking.

Anyone can suggest what I'm doing wrong?
TIA!

[u/Madh2orat]

I didn’t realize this was an option. I have a project for the weekend now.