Frigate NVR Updates: Configurable Notification TTL
A single merged change adds a configurable time-to-live for active alert notifications. The default of zero preserves current behavior while allowing longer retry windows for offline devices.
Duration: PT2M5S
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: 2026-10-31T13:13:58Z
- Audio duration: PT2M5S
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Good morning, it's October 31st, 2026, and you're listening to Frigate N V R Updates.
Today's activity is narrow — not a trend across the codebase, but a single high-impact fix for alert notification reliability.
The core issue was this: notifications sent while an alert was still active always used a time to live of zero. That meant if your phone wasn't reachable at that exact moment, the push service dropped the message entirely, and you would only see the notification sent when the alert ended. For developers maintaining…
Pull request 24-829, finalized in commit 9b0aa75, addresses it by adding a configurable time to live option for notifications. The push service will now retry delivery for that many seconds, giving offline devices a window to catch active alerts, not just resolved ones.
Two implementation details matter here. First, the default stays at zero, so existing behavior is unchanged unless an administrator opts in. Second, after review, the setting landed as a global advanced option rather than per-camera, which simplifies configuration and testing. The settings interface surfaces it…
The practical takeaway for developers is straightforward: zero preserves the old…
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