Frigate NVR Updates: History Playback Fix and Export Polish
Five merges on October 25th and 26th focus on reliability and interface correctness. The lead is a fix for History playback stalling for up to an hour after camera audio dropouts.
Duration: PT2M17S
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: 2026-10-26T13:18:26Z
- Audio duration: PT2M17S
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Good morning, it's Monday, October 26th, 2026.
The throughline today is quiet reliability work, fixing cases where normal camera behavior left playback stuck or background jobs piled up.
The highest-impact fix is history playback after camera audio dropouts, in PR 24793. When a camera's audio cut out early in a segment, a playback range starting past that audio point could fail with a track mismatch and leave the player spinning for up to an hour of footage. Recording now stores each segment's audio…
A second theme is interface correctness. PR 24787 fixes multi-camera export, where clearing part of a time field produced an invalid range while the picker still showed a valid time, leaving the export button disabled with no explanation. The picker now ignores incomplete values, the dialog shows inline errors for…
Finally, maintenance. PR 24791 updates Zod to version 4 point 6 point 7, adjusting number coercion typing in zone and wizard forms, switching to a translated message for the camera port error, and tightening interface settings import tests by scoping the import click to the dialog and reloading after layout writes.
What to remember: if you work on history or exports, test…
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