Frigate NVR Updates: Hidden Cameras, Consistent Rules
A single merged pull request, #23873, closes gaps where cameras hidden from the dashboard or review settings were inconsistently filtered across the UI, fixing editability, motion tab, and review summary bugs caused by mismatched camera visibility logic.
Duration: PT2M9S
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: 2026-07-31T13:14:49Z
- Audio duration: PT2M9S
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Good morning. It's July 31st, 2026, and today's Frigate update is a single pull request with an outsized impact on UI consistency.
The core theme here is visibility filtering, and specifically, the bugs that show up when different parts of the interface disagree about which cameras a user should see. PR #23873, merged by hawkeye217, tackles three separate instances of this same underlying problem.
First: cameras hidden from the "All Cameras" dashboard were also getting filtered out of the settings camera selector and zone editor. That meant hiding a camera from your dashboard accidentally made its zones and masks impossible to edit — a real workflow blocker, tracked in issue 23870. The fix scopes the…
Second: the Motion tab had its own camera list that never checked the review visibility setting. So a camera hidden from review still showed up with a preview tile, and its motion queries silently fell back to querying every allowed camera instead of respecting what the user actually wanted visible.
Third, and related: review and recordings summary counts are aggregate numbers that can't be filtered after the fact. If a hidden camera was included in that aggregate, you'd get severity…
The…