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 ## Installing
 
+### Software requirements
+* Frigate NVR requires you to have a working MQTT broker such as Mosquitto. You can find Mosquitto in the Home Assistant addon store or install in stand-a-lone.
+* Frigate only runs under a Linux environment and it is currently only running in a stand-a-lone docker container. For more info on the Docker installation please consult [Docker install](#docker) for details.
+
 ### HassOS Addon
-HassOS users can install via the addon repository. Frigate requires that an MQTT server be running.
+HassOS users can install via the addon repository.
 1. Navigate to Supervisor > Add-on Store > Repositories
 1. Add https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate-hass-addons
 1. Setup your configuration in the `Configuration` tab