Frigate NVR Updates: Birdseye Gets a Rework
Birdseye camera layout saw two significant changes today—a config refactor and a layout fix for mixed camera orientations—while the export dialog and base image also got attention. Together, these updates target flexibility, visual reliability, and long-term maintainability.
Duration: PT2M4S
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: 2026-08-12T13:16:19Z
- Audio duration: PT2M4S
Transcript excerpt
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Good morning, it's August 12th, and here's what moved in Frigate overnight.
The clearest thread today is Birdseye. Two separate pull requests touched how it works, and together they suggest a broader effort to make this feature more flexible and visually solid. PR 23940 refactors Birdseye's activity types away from a single mutually exclusive mode into independent, composable boolean…
Second theme: cleanup on the export side. PR 23959, also from Josh Hawkins, fixes multiple UI issues in the multi-export dialog, touches the review filter group and mobile settings drawer, and adds new tests plus updated translations. The matching commit, c75611b, confirms this was a coordinated fix rather than a…
Separately, NickM-27 opened PR 23961 to move the base container image to Trixie. This one's still open and explicitly flagged as untested, with some community builds expected to be temporarily disabled during the transition. Worth watching before pulling the next release if you rely on one of those community build…
What's next: keep an eye on the Birdseye config PR as it likely needs another review pass given the change requests, and hold off on assuming full build coverage until the Trixie…
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Nearby episodes from Frigate NVR Updates
- Audio Grouping and Capture Thread Cleanup
- Core Configuration Gets Sturdier
- API Hardening and a Path Traversal Fix
- GenAI Gets More Flexible, Cleanup Follows
- Export Polish and GenAI Lifecycle Fix
- Weekly Recap - Security Hardening & Timing Precision
- Small Fixes, Steady Maintenance
- Beta Cleanup and a Birdseye Rethink