Frigate NVR Updates: Apple Silicon Acceleration and Notice Overhaul
Apple Silicon Macs gain Neural Engine detection and media-engine decode via lighter, alongside a fix for remote detector endpoints. Notice handling, playback, and live-view work round out a reliability-focused day.
Duration: PT2M14S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from Frigate NVR Updates.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: Frigate NVR Updates
- Published: 2026-09-25T13:20:06Z
- Audio duration: PT2M14S
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Hello, it's September 25th, 2026, and this is Frigate NVR Updates.
The lead pattern is expanded platform reach backed by reliability fixes — Macs become viable for larger installs, while status reporting gets more trustworthy.
First, Apple Silicon. In PR 24453, Frigate can run the ONNX detector on the Mac Neural Engine when running under lighter, an open container runtime for macOS. The change registers lighter's plugin execution provider alongside existing accelerators, with fallback to default providers if a model can't load there. The…
Second, how Frigate surfaces problems. PR 24459 reworks notices and the status bar. Duplicate status messages previously shared the same ID and overwrote each other; they now fall back to message text, with desktop showing the most severe plus a count and mobile stacking messages vertically. Dismiss becomes…
Also merged: PR 24444 gives Safari the full half to 16-times playback range, and PR 24460 bumps ONNX Runtime and packaging dependencies. Two proposals remain open with limited detail: improved live-view grids, and an option to retain the last frame with a camera-is-off badge for intentionally disabled cameras.
What's next: test Mac decode…
Nearby episodes from Frigate NVR Updates
- Apple Silicon Proposal and Reliability Fixes
- Opt-In Analytics Proposal and Safari Playback Parity
- Documentation Terms Aligned to UI
- Weekly Recap - GenAI Audio, Playback Control and New Detector Support
- DeepX NPU Support and Stability Fixes
- Semantic Search Reindex Fix
- Access Control and Error Handling Cleanup
- GenAI Gets Smarter, Config Validation Gets Honest