Frigate NVR Updates: Multi-Model Support and Storage Reliability
Frigate's dev branch landed a major refactor enabling multiple detector models per scene, alongside a cluster of storage and recording fixes from hawkeye217 addressing runtime edge cases. A separate fix corrects broken Gemini chat integration on newer model versions.
Duration: PT2M29S
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: 2026-08-19T13:16:11Z
- Audio duration: PT2M29S
Transcript excerpt
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Good morning, it's August 19th, 2026, and this is your Frigate NVR briefing.
The biggest story today is a foundational shift in how Frigate handles detection models. NickM-27 landed two connected pull requests, 23995 and 24023, that refactor detector and model configuration so users can define multiple models tied to different scenes, like indoor versus outdoor cameras, plus a new UI to…
The second theme is storage and recording reliability, and it's almost entirely hawkeye217's work today. PR 24015 splits main and sub-stream usage in storage metrics, giving clearer visibility into where disk space actually goes. PR 24022 changes emergency cleanup logic to base decisions on the streams a camera is…
Two smaller but notable fixes: dtighe's PR 24013 corrects Gemini tool calling for Gemini Flash 3.6 and newer. The issue was subtle, function call responses were failing with an error, but because it surfaced mid-stream, the request still returned a success status, making it easy to miss in production. And PR 24024…
Also merged: audio label map grouping from Ersaoktaviannn, letting multiple audio classes share one label, and camera group layout import and export from hawkeye217.
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