Frigate NVR Updates: Motion Filtering and AI Improvements

Frigate merged five pull requests on March 9-10, including new motion preview filters, GenAI prompt refactoring, and performance improvements for the recordings API. The project also received significant localization updates across multiple languages.

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  • Show: Frigate NVR Updates
  • Published: 2026-03-10T10:18:43Z
  • Audio duration: PT1M53S

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This is Frigate NVR Updates for March 10th, 2026.

The development team merged five pull requests over the past two days, focusing on user interface enhancements and backend improvements.

Hawkeye217 merged three significant updates. The first adds motion preview filtering capabilities, allowing users to better navigate motion events through a new filter grid interface. The second implements performance improvements for the recordings API and calendar UI by replacing expensive per-row operations with…

NickM-27 contributed two infrastructure updates. The GenAI prompt system received a major refactor to support JSON schema formatting across multiple AI providers including OpenAI, Gemini, and Ollama, improving the efficiency and consistency of AI-generated content. Additionally, Intel dependencies were updated to…

Beyond the merged pull requests, the project saw substantial internationalization progress through Weblate. New language support was added for Albanian, with partial translations completed for Cantonese Traditional, Korean, Persian, and Swedish. Existing translations for French, Spanish, and Dutch received…

The commit activity also included improvements to the review GenAI…

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