Frigate NVR Updates: Auth Expands, Face Recognition Gets Fixed
Frigate's authentication story is growing with a new native OpenID Connect option, while two separate contributions tackle the same face detection bug, and routine maintenance work continues on tests and dependencies.
Duration: PT2M12S
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: 2026-07-13T13:11:32Z
- Audio duration: PT2M12S
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Good day, and welcome to Frigate NVR Updates for July 13th, 2026.
Today's biggest signal is authentication. PR 23693 from ankycooper proposes native OpenID Connect support, letting Frigate log users in directly against providers like Keycloak, Okta, or Google Workspace, with group-based role mapping. That's a significant expansion beyond relying on a reverse proxy for auth, and it…
Second theme: face recognition accuracy. Two nearly identical PRs, 23686 and 23687, both from JoeApo108, tackle the same bug — the detection threshold for face recognition is supposed to be tunable below zero-point-five, but internally it's hardcoded at that floor inside the YuNet detector setup. That means anyone…
On the UI side, Josh Hawkins landed PR 23690, adding editable enabled and save-attempts settings for classification models, exposing motion and interval config in the edit dialog, and fixing playback rate on motion previews. Small but real usability wins for anyone managing classification models day to day.
Rounding out the day: a pandas update to the 3-point-oh line from mweinelt, which will need attention for breaking changes noted in that project's release notes, and a documentation PR from…
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