Frigate NVR Updates: Gemini Cost Fix and Ryzen AI Support
Two unrelated changes moved forward: a Gemini token-count correction that cuts review frames from about 90 to about 21 to stop roughly 4x overspend, and a new Ryzen AI NPU detector for XDNA 1 PHX and HPT parts. There is no broader pattern, with the cost fix as the highest immediate impact.
Duration: PT2M3S
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: 2026-09-26T13:16:40Z
- Audio duration: PT2M3S
Transcript excerpt
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Good morning, it's Saturday, September 26th, 2026.
Today's activity doesn't form a single pattern — it's two separate tracks: controlling cloud A-I costs and expanding local detection hardware, with the cost fix carrying the most immediate impact.
First, review descriptions get cheaper and more predictable. In pull request 24469, the Gemini provider now measures image token cost directly instead of using the default pixel heuristic. That heuristic estimated about 46 tokens for a small preview frame, while Gemini 3 models actually bill about 1,100 tokens per…
Second, local inference expands to new A-M-D hardware. Pull request 24470 introduces an N-P-U detector for Ryzen A-I version 1.7.1, tailored specifically for X-D-N-A 1 parts P-H-X and H-P-T, and explicitly not for S-T-X. It is a broad change touching container setup, dependencies, detector wiring and hardware…
What's next: expect review output to use fewer images with lower cost, and watch for testing feedback and clarification on supported Ryzen configurations.
That's it for today. Thanks for listening.
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