Frigate NVR Updates

Track the development of Frigate, the AI-powered NVR for Home Assistant. Object detection improvements, camera support, and performance updates.

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  1. Frigate NVR Updates: FFmpeg Upgrade and Player Enhancements

    Frigate upgraded to FFmpeg 8 by default and enhanced video playback capabilities with snapshot downloads. The changes focus on modernizing core video infrastructure while improving user experience in the history player.

  2. Frigate NVR Updates: Review Interface Customization

    Frigate's review interface gains new camera visibility controls, allowing users to hide specific cameras from the review UI. This medium-sized change spans multiple areas including UI components, camera settings, and internationalization.

  3. Frigate NVR Updates: Motion Search Performance Improvements

    Frigate's development focused heavily on motion detection and review functionality performance, with significant refactoring of motion search capabilities alongside general bug fixes and documentation cleanup.

  4. Frigate NVR Updates: Weekly Recap - User Experience Polish and Configuration Tools

    Frigate NVR focused heavily on user interface refinements and configuration workflow improvements this week, with a significant camera cloning feature and motion search enhancements leading the development effort.

  5. Frigate NVR Updates: User Experience Refinements

    Three medium-sized pull requests focused on improving user interfaces and camera setup workflows, with notable enhancements to motion search functionality and ONVIF camera compatibility.

  6. Frigate NVR Updates: UI Standardization and Performance Fixes

    Josh Hawkins merged two pull requests focusing on UI consistency improvements and miscellaneous performance fixes. The updates include standardized dialog layouts, chart optimization, and audio processing improvements.

  7. Frigate NVR Updates: Runtime State Restoration and Live Streams Widget

    Four pull requests were merged on May 27th, introducing runtime state restoration on startup, a new live streams configuration widget, Traditional Chinese language support, and various system fixes.

  8. Frigate NVR Updates: Profiles Enhancement and Export Controls

    Four pull requests merged on May 25th focused on profile configuration improvements, MP4 export chapter controls, UI refinements, and documentation updates. The changes include significant backend validation for profiles and new export…

  9. Frigate NVR Updates: UI Improvements and Security Fixes

    Two pull requests from hawkeye217 were merged on May 24th, delivering user interface improvements and miscellaneous security fixes across 30 files. The updates include camera control terminology changes and enhanced access restrictions…

  10. Frigate NVR Updates: Motion Review Camera Filtering

    A single pull request was merged yesterday that filters motion review by allowed cameras. The change modified the EventView component with a minor code adjustment.

  11. Frigate NVR Updates: Weekly Recap - GenAI Platform & Debug Tools

    This week saw major GenAI infrastructure refactoring with dynamic thinking model support and improved debugging capabilities. Twenty pull requests merged alongside 30 additional commits focused on platform stability and…

  12. Frigate NVR Updates: Debug Replay and Detection Resolution Fixes

    Three pull requests merged yesterday focused on debug replay functionality and detection resolution handling, with significant improvements to camera state management and user interface validation. The updates include 1,220 lines of code…

  13. Frigate NVR Updates: AI Chat Enhancements and Debug Fixes

    The Frigate team merged five pull requests on May 21st, introducing dynamic thinking models for AI chat functionality and resolving multiple debug replay issues. Documentation updates were also included to improve user guidance.

  14. Frigate NVR Updates: Security and Debug Improvements

    Six pull requests merged on May 20-21 focused on security enhancements, credential handling, and debug functionality fixes. Notable changes include resolving an nginx cache leak for admin responses and improving the debug replay system.

  15. Frigate NVR Updates: GenAI Refactor and UI Improvements

    Six pull requests were merged including a major GenAI system refactor and significant UI enhancements for filters and WebSocket security. Extensive translation updates cover 22 additional language improvements.

  16. Frigate NVR Updates: Settings UI Improvements and Debug Replay Enhancements

    Five pull requests were merged focusing on settings interface fixes, debug replay functionality, and metadata improvements for recordings. The updates include camera reordering capabilities, NPU performance enhancements, and audio…

  17. Frigate NVR Updates: Settings UI Overhaul and Base Path Fixes

    Josh Hawkins merged two significant pull requests that consolidate detector and model settings into a unified interface and fix hardcoded URL paths to properly respect the FRIGATE_BASE_PATH configuration.

  18. Frigate NVR Updates: Weekly Recap - Internationalization & System Improvements

    This week delivered significant internationalization progress with massive translation updates across 40+ languages, alongside key infrastructure improvements including Intel GPU monitoring, chat enhancements, and cross-camera media…

  19. Frigate NVR Updates: Chat Enhancement and System Fixes

    Two pull requests were merged on May 15th, implementing semantic query capabilities for chat functionality and delivering miscellaneous system fixes including audio filter improvements and security enhancements.

  20. Frigate NVR Updates: Chat Feature Enhancement

    NickM-27 merged a significant chat improvement pull request adding token streaming statistics and new settings interface. The update spans 14 files with over 500 lines of new code across both backend AI integrations and frontend components.

  21. Frigate NVR Updates: GPU Performance and UI Improvements

    Six pull requests were merged focusing on Intel GPU statistics, multi-GPU OpenVINO support, internationalization fixes, and API access controls. Notable improvements include better hardware monitoring and configuration management.

  22. Frigate NVR Updates: Filesystem Reliability and UI Improvements

    Two pull requests merged yesterday address filesystem error handling and deliver miscellaneous fixes across the UI and backend. The changes improve system resilience for distributed storage setups and enhance the face recognition interface.

  23. Frigate NVR Updates: Cross-Camera Media Security Enhancement

    Developer NickM-27 merged a significant security update implementing cross-camera safety for indexed media folders, adding 696 lines of code across authentication and testing files.

  24. Frigate NVR Updates: Internationalization Expansion and Quality Improvements

    Four pull requests merged yesterday focused heavily on expanding language support with new translations for dozens of languages, plus fixes for internationalization keys and improved error logging for camera mask configurations.

  25. Frigate NVR Updates: Debug Logging Fix

    Developer ryzendigo fixed a debug logging issue where directory removal counts weren't being properly displayed due to a missing f-string prefix.

  26. Frigate NVR Updates: UI Improvements and Bug Fixes

    Two major pull requests from hawkeye217 delivered significant user interface improvements and system fixes. The updates include better configuration management, enhanced object detection defaults, and resolved WebSocket connectivity issues.

  27. Frigate NVR Updates: User Interface and AI Chat Improvements

    Developer Josh Hawkins merged a comprehensive patch addressing multiple system components, including AI chat functionality fixes, camera management interface enhancements, and recording cleanup optimizations.

  28. Frigate NVR Updates: Face Recognition Fix and ROCm Optimization

    Three pull requests merged addressing a critical face recognition color format bug, ROCm performance optimizations, and miscellaneous API fixes. The face detection fix resolves silent failures that prevented proper face recognition…

  29. Frigate NVR Updates: ROCm Optimizations and Authentication Fixes

    Two pull requests merged today bringing ROCm 7.2.3 optimizations with improved AMD GPU performance and miscellaneous fixes including better authentication handling and UI improvements.

  30. Frigate NVR Updates: Intel GPU Stats Rewrite and Settings UI Improvements

    Two major updates were merged today - a complete rewrite of Intel GPU statistics collection for better performance and accuracy, plus significant improvements to the settings user interface with new camera override indicators.

  31. Frigate NVR Updates: Weekly Recap - Infrastructure Improvements & User Experience

    This week brought significant infrastructure upgrades with a new Docker Compose generator and job system improvements, plus extensive translation updates covering over 200 files across multiple languages.

  32. Frigate NVR Updates: Docker Generator and Debug Replay Improvements

    Four pull requests merged today including a new Docker Compose generator for easier installation and a significant refactor of the debug replay system using job infrastructure.

  33. Frigate NVR Updates: Ollama Cloud Integration and UI Fixes

    Two pull requests merged today adding Ollama Cloud API key authentication support and implementing various bug fixes across license plate recognition, export functionality, and web interface components.

  34. Frigate NVR Updates: Timeline and Configuration Fixes

    Developer Josh Hawkins merged a comprehensive fix addressing timeline navigation bugs, user permission controls, and OpenVINO logging improvements. The update resolves a critical timestamp sharing issue that caused incorrect timeline…

  35. Frigate NVR Updates: Export Chapters and Birdseye Timing Fix

    Five pull requests merged today, including chapter support for review items in exports, a critical timing bug fix for Birdseye idle heartbeat, and extensive internationalization updates across 205 translation files.

  36. Frigate NVR Updates: Export Features and Build Fixes

    Three pull requests were merged addressing export functionality, system stability, and build issues. Notable additions include a new zip download feature for cases and fixes for ROCm Docker builds.

  37. Frigate NVR Updates: Core System Fixes

    Developer hawkeye217 merged a comprehensive fix package addressing audio event handling, camera configuration updates, and recording segment routing issues. The update includes improvements to GenAI metadata processing and enhanced…

  38. Frigate NVR Updates: Weekly Recap - UI Fixes & Performance Optimization

    This week focused heavily on resolving user interface regressions and optimizing core features like face recognition and GenAI processing. The team merged 14 pull requests with significant attention to modal dialog fixes and camera…

  39. Frigate NVR Updates: Performance Optimizations and UI Improvements

    Developer NickM-27 merged a comprehensive update containing performance optimizations for AI processing and user interface improvements for camera management. The changes include frame rate adjustments, improved error handling, and…

  40. Frigate NVR Updates: GenAI Optimizations and Modal Reverts

    Three pull requests were merged on April 25th, featuring significant GenAI performance improvements, UI modal reverts addressing user issues, and various mobile interface fixes. The updates span both backend AI processing and frontend…

  41. Frigate NVR Updates: Face Recognition Optimization and UI Fixes

    Four pull requests were merged on April 24th, focusing on face recognition performance improvements and fixing a UI regression affecting dismissable layers. New testing scripts were also added to support development workflows.

  42. Frigate NVR Updates: Security and User Interface Improvements

    Four pull requests were merged on April 23rd, focusing on camera access security controls and web interface enhancements. Key updates include refined user permissions for camera monitoring and improved classification tools.

  43. Frigate NVR Updates: Stream Reliability and Ecosystem Expansion

    Today's updates focus on improved RTSP stream handling with TCP fallback mechanisms and camera wizard enhancements, plus a critical OpenVINO fix for LXC container environments.

  44. Frigate NVR Updates: Timestamped Sharing and Intel GPU Support

    Four commits were merged today, headlined by Otto's new timestamped URL sharing feature for camera footage and Nicolas Mowen's Intel runtime update adding Battlemage GPU support.

  45. Frigate NVR Updates: Weekly Recap - Export System Overhaul & Infrastructure

    This week brought major improvements to Frigate's export functionality with progress tracking, case management, and bulk operations, plus infrastructure enhancements for Intel driver builds and network requirements documentation.

  46. Frigate NVR Updates: Weekly Recap - Test Infrastructure & User Interface Enhancements

    This week brought zero merged pull requests but 10 significant commits focused on improving frontend testing capabilities and user interface functionality. Major additions include a comprehensive end-to-end testing framework and enhanced…

  47. Frigate NVR Updates: Weekly Recap - Global Translation Expansion

    This week saw 30 commits focused entirely on internationalization, with major translation updates across 12 languages including Norwegian Bokmål reaching 100% completion and significant progress in Chinese, Korean, and European languages.

  48. Frigate NVR Updates: GenAI Enhancements and Translation Updates

    Three pull requests were merged focusing on GenAI interface improvements and a major translation update covering 196 files across multiple languages. Development also included 30 additional commits primarily for ongoing translation work.

  49. Frigate NVR Updates: Weekly Recap - UI Enhancements & AI Features

    This week saw 28 pull requests merged with significant improvements to the web interface, AI capabilities, and system performance. Major updates include GenAI refactoring, comprehensive documentation restructuring, and enhanced metrics…

  50. Frigate NVR Updates: GenAI Refactoring and Documentation Improvements

    The Frigate NVR project merged three pull requests focusing on GenAI system improvements, MemryX documentation updates, and settings interface enhancements. The most significant change introduces feature-based AI model selection and…

  51. Frigate NVR Updates: UI Editor Improvements and AI Context Optimization

    Three pull requests merged focusing on mask and zone editor bug fixes, automatic llama.cpp context configuration, and API proxy cleanup. The updates improve the web interface stability and streamline AI model integration.

  52. Frigate NVR Updates: Settings Interface and Stream Management Fixes

    Two pull requests were merged addressing UI improvements for detector configuration and fixing environment variable handling for dynamically added streams. Both changes enhance the user experience when managing Frigate through the web…

  53. Frigate NVR Updates: Security Hardening and Chat Enhancements

    Four pull requests were merged focusing on security improvements and chat functionality enhancements. Key changes include role-based websocket authentication, profile state management improvements, and multiple security fixes across API…

  54. Frigate NVR Updates: Major Documentation Overhaul and Configuration Improvements

    Frigate received a comprehensive documentation refactor with over 5,300 lines of changes across 53 files, plus new configuration validators and a UI timing fix.

  55. Frigate NVR Updates: UI Performance Improvements and Bug Fixes

    Ten pull requests were merged on March 29th focusing on UI performance enhancements, time format handling fixes, and backend optimizations. Key improvements include metrics UI performance boosts, Intel GPU stats refactoring, and several…

  56. Frigate NVR Updates: Weekly Recap - Code Quality & API Improvements

    This week saw 31 merged pull requests focused heavily on MyPy type safety improvements, API enhancements, and user interface refinements. Major work included snapshot API improvements, internationalization workflow updates, and extensive…

  57. Frigate NVR Updates: Chat Features and Review Interface Enhancements

    Three pull requests merged on March 27th focused on improving chat functionality, adding a new review labels widget, and introducing Axera NPU load monitoring support.

  58. Frigate NVR Updates: Code Quality and Export Fixes

    Three pull requests merged yesterday focused on type checking improvements, UI tweaks, and fixing a critical export deadlock issue. The changes span code quality improvements and user interface enhancements.

  59. Frigate NVR Updates: Classification Features and Bug Fixes

    Six pull requests were merged on March 24th, focusing on enhanced classification capabilities and user interface improvements. The updates include new reclassification features, notification fixes, and a shared memory calculator for…

  60. Frigate NVR Updates: GPU Support and Development Workflow Improvements

    Nine pull requests were merged on March 23rd, featuring AMD RDNA4 GPU support, CUDA version adjustments, and enhanced internationalization workflows. The updates also include media sync improvements and various bug fixes across the…

  61. Frigate NVR Updates: Snapshot API Enhancement and Settings Internationalization

    Two significant updates merged to Frigate NVR, with leccelecce delivering enhanced event snapshot API functionality that honors query parameters after events end, and hawkeye217 improving internationalization for the settings interface.

  62. Frigate NVR Updates: Weekly Recap - Settings UI Expansion & Bug Fixes

    This week brought significant improvements to the settings interface with new profile support and Go2RTC stream configuration, alongside 16 critical bug fixes addressing security vulnerabilities and system stability issues.

  63. Frigate NVR Updates: Documentation Fix for Axear Model Configuration

    A documentation fix was merged to correct the Axear model configuration in the object detector setup guide. The change updates input data types and pixel format specifications.

  64. Frigate NVR Updates: GenAI Camera Monitoring and UI Improvements

    The Frigate development team merged six pull requests on March 20th, introducing GenAI-powered camera monitoring capabilities and significant user interface improvements. Additional commits focused on process monitoring and chat…

  65. Frigate NVR Updates: Camera Profiles and API Enhancements

    Frigate NVR received a major camera profiles feature allowing dynamic configuration switching, plus API improvements for camera control and go2rtc stream management. Seven pull requests were merged with significant UI and backend…

  66. Frigate NVR Updates: Security Fixes and UI Improvements

    Eight pull requests were merged focusing on authentication security fixes, UI configuration improvements, and bug corrections. Additional translation updates expanded language support across multiple locales.

  67. Frigate NVR Updates: Critical Bug Fixes and Memory Leak Patches

    Nine pull requests merged today addressing critical crashes in birdseye custom logos, WebSocket memory leaks, and broken event cleanup that was causing disk space exhaustion.

  68. Frigate NVR Updates: Weekly Recap - AI Integration & Performance Enhancements

    Frigate merged 34 pull requests this week, introducing GenAI semantic search capabilities and AXERA AI accelerator support while delivering significant UI performance improvements and bug fixes.

  69. Frigate NVR Updates: Authentication and UI Improvements

    Two pull requests were merged addressing authentication interface improvements and animated event card functionality, plus a performance fix for Frigate+ API calls.

  70. Frigate NVR Updates: UI Improvements and Hardware Documentation

    Four pull requests were merged yesterday focusing on user interface consistency, developer documentation, and hardware performance data. The changes include sorted class names in the web interface and updated RTX 5060 Ti inference…

  71. Frigate NVR Updates: UI Improvements and Bug Fix

    Two pull requests were merged today addressing user interface enhancements and a critical exception handling bug in the recording subsystem.

  72. Frigate NVR Updates: React 19 Migration and AXERA AI Support

    Frigate merged five pull requests on March 11th, including a major React 19 compatibility update that replaces react-tracked with useSyncExternalStore and initial support for AXERA AI accelerators.

  73. Frigate NVR Updates: Documentation and GenAI Improvements

    Two pull requests were merged on March 10th, focusing on documentation enhancement and GenAI score handling fixes. The updates include improved code highlighting in documentation and resolved percentage parsing issues in the GenAI module.

  74. Frigate NVR Updates: Motion Filtering and AI Improvements

    Frigate merged five pull requests on March 9-10, including new motion preview filters, GenAI prompt refactoring, and performance improvements for the recordings API. The project also received significant localization updates across…

  75. Frigate NVR Updates: GenAI Integration and Camera Management

    Ten pull requests merged yesterday bring GenAI-powered semantic search capabilities and a new camera deletion feature to Frigate NVR. The updates also include ONNX dependency upgrades for RTX 50-series GPU support and multiple frontend…

  76. Frigate NVR Updates: Weekly Recap - React 19 Upgrade and Motion Search Features

    This week brought a major frontend upgrade to React 19 and introduced powerful new motion search capabilities. 23 pull requests were merged, focusing on UI improvements, debugging tools, and configuration enhancements.

  77. Frigate NVR Updates: UI Improvements and License Plate Recognition Fixes

    Five pull requests were merged focusing on user interface enhancements, video playback improvements, and license plate recognition optimization. The updates include better annotation offset controls and stricter CPU requirements.

  78. Frigate NVR Updates: Dynamic Configuration Expansion

    Frigate developers merged two pull requests from hawkeye217 expanding dynamic configuration capabilities and fixing frontend rendering issues. The updates enable real-time configuration changes for face recognition, license plate…

  79. Frigate NVR Updates: React 19 Upgrade and Motion Search Features

    Frigate merged five pull requests on March 5th, including a major React 19 frontend upgrade and new motion search capabilities. Additional fixes addressed authentication logging and AI chat functionality.

  80. Frigate NVR Updates: Debug Replay Feature and UI Improvements

    Frigate merged six pull requests on March 4th, with the major addition being a comprehensive debug replay system for analyzing recorded footage. The update also includes Ollama chat fixes, documentation improvements, and UI enhancements…

  81. Frigate NVR Updates: Dashboard Camera Visibility Fix

    A single commit was pushed today addressing inconsistent visibility behavior for hidden cameras in the dashboard alerts section.

  82. Frigate NVR Updates: Documentation Clarifications for Hardware Requirements

    Developer hawkeye217 merged documentation updates that explicitly clarify AVX processor requirements across multiple Frigate features. The changes affect seven documentation files covering classification, recognition, and hardware setup…

  83. Frigate NVR Updates: Major Masks and Zones Improvements Plus GenAI Enhancements

    Two significant pull requests merged on February 28th, delivering substantial improvements to masks and zones functionality along with GenAI documentation refactoring and streaming support for additional providers.

  84. Frigate NVR Updates: Version 0.17 Release and Early 0.18 Development

    Frigate NVR officially released version 0.17 with extensive changes across 1,435 files, while early development work for version 0.18 has already begun. The update includes new LLM chat capabilities, improved YOLOv9 Coral support, and…

  85. Frigate NVR Updates: YOLOv9 Documentation Fix

    A documentation fix for YOLOv9 ONNX export commands was merged to resolve a cmake dependency issue. The change updates the object detector configuration guide with corrected export instructions.

  86. Frigate NVR Updates: RF-DETR Download Script Fix

    A pull request merged yesterday fixes the script for downloading RF-DETR object detection models, addressing building and downloading issues with minimal documentation changes.

  87. Frigate NVR Updates: Documentation and Localization Week

    Frigate merged 7 pull requests this week, focusing heavily on documentation improvements and internationalization updates. Notable changes include preview segment optimization, macOS installation guides, and extensive translation work…

  88. Frigate NVR Updates: Object Attributes Processing Improvement

    Developer NickM-27 merged a pull request that streamlines how Frigate handles object attributes by implementing automatic parsing instead of requiring specific processing steps. The change reduces code complexity while maintaining…

  89. Frigate NVR Updates: Object Attribute Database Fixes

    Two pull requests were merged on February 14th addressing object attribute handling in Frigate's database and API filtering system. The updates fix attribute persistence issues and improve filtering for non-English and URL-encoded values.

  90. Frigate NVR Updates: UI Tooltip Fixes

    Developer hawkeye217 merged a pull request fixing tooltip functionality in the web interface. The changes address lingering "-verified" label issues across three UI components.

  91. Frigate NVR Updates: Beta Fixes and Model Reload

    Two pull requests merged for Frigate's 0.17 beta including authentication improvements, UI fixes, and a classification model reload bug fix. The updates address multiple stability issues and improve user experience across the platform.

  92. Frigate NVR Updates: API Event Classification Enhancement

    A new pull request merged yesterday allows API-created events to be classified as either detections or alerts based on the event label, addressing a key limitation for users migrating from other NVR systems.

  93. Frigate NVR Updates: WebSocket Player Enhancement

    Developer hawkeye217 merged improvements to the JSMpeg player's websocket handling, reducing console noise and enhancing stability across the web interface and backend logging systems.

  94. Frigate NVR Updates: Snapshot API Enhancement

    Developer fl42 merged a pull request adding an X-Frame-Time HTTP header to the snapshot API response, addressing issue #19309 with changes across three files including the media API and object tracking modules.

  95. Frigate NVR Updates: Hardware Support and Bug Fixes

    Four pull requests merged yesterday focused on improving Raspberry Pi Hailo-8 installation, fixing internationalization issues, resolving event management bugs, and adjusting logging levels.

  96. Frigate NVR Updates: Hailo Installation Fixes and Event Management

    Four pull requests were merged on February 5th addressing Raspberry Pi Hailo-8 installation issues, event processing bugs, internationalization fixes, and logging improvements.

  97. Frigate NVR Updates: Beta Fixes and Language Expansion

    The Frigate NVR team merged three pull requests on February 3rd, including miscellaneous 0.17 beta fixes, major translation updates, and support for three new languages. Additionally, 30 commits delivered extensive translation…

  98. Frigate NVR Updates: Networking and Beta Fixes

    Six pull requests merged this week focused on networking configuration improvements and beta release fixes. Key addition is new networking options for configuring listening ports, along with security restrictions for go2rtc sources.

  99. Frigate NVR Updates: Beta Fixes and Reversions

    Developer hawkeye217 reverted and then reapplied miscellaneous fixes for the 0.17 beta, addressing debug view icons and adding classification object logging. The changes involved significant modifications to GitHub Copilot instructions…

  100. Frigate NVR Updates: Network Configuration and Bug Fixes

    Three pull requests merged yesterday including new networking configuration options for custom port settings, go2rtc source restrictions, and internationalization fixes.