Frigate NVR Updates: Config Sync Bugs and Query Speedups
A cluster of 0.18 beta bug fixes addressed configuration state getting out of sync after live edits, while a separate performance pull request cut recording timeline and VOD query times by narrowing the scan window.
Duration: PT2M13S
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: 2026-07-30T13:15:22Z
- Audio duration: PT2M13S
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Good morning. It's July 30th, and today's Frigate activity centers on one theme: configuration state that drifts from what's actually running.
Josh Hawkins's miscellaneous fixes pull request, number 23854, fixed two related bugs. First, watchdog process restarts were reverting to the boot-time config instead of the latest saved one, because the running app object was never rebound after a config swap through the API. The fix routes restarts through a…
Second theme: recording query performance. DoFabien's pull requests, 23860 and 23862, tackled slow timeline and VOD queries by adding a lower time bound based on the maximum segment duration, and simplifying the VOD overlap check into equivalent but cheaper conditions. On a database with about 183,000 recording…
Two smaller items worth noting: NickM-27 refined GenAI chat prompts for clarity, and fjlouis's pull request, 23761, replaced a hard-coded Intel NPU address with dynamic device discovery, so NPU usage stats will now show up correctly on systems where that address differs.
What to remember: if you've hit stale config after a restart or missing birdseye overrides, that's fixed in 23854. If you're running large recording databases,…
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