Frigate NVR Updates: Configurable Face Recognition Limits
Today's two changes don't share a theme, with the highest impact from making face recognition attempt limits configurable instead of hard-coded. A second update documents ReoStream, a community proxy for stabilizing Reolink camera streams.
Duration: PT1M54S
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: 2026-10-22T13:21:28Z
- Audio duration: PT1M54S
Transcript excerpt
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Good morning, it's October 22nd, 2026, and you're listening to Frigate N V R Updates.
Today's activity doesn't form a single pattern, but the highest-impact change gives operators more control over missed face recognitions.
The core update is P R 24745, which makes face recognition attempt limits configurable. Until now, Frigate stopped trying to identify a tracked person after 12 attempts, and stopped refining a match after six, with both cutoffs hard-coded. An attempt means any frame where a face was found inside the person's box.…
Separately, P R 24747 documents a community workaround for Reolink video quality. It adds ReoStream to the third-party extensions page. The tool pulls video using Reolink's native protocol, the same one used by the vendor app and recorder, and re-serves it as standard R T S P so Go2 R T C and Frigate work unchanged.…
What's next to watch is tuning guidance for the new recognition settings, and whether the Reolink proxy sees wider adoption and feedback.
That's all for today, thanks for listening.
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