Frigate NVR Updates: Opt-In Analytics, Notification Control, and Pipeline Fixes
Frigate merged opt-in analytics, a custom notification suspension UI, and fixes for Gemini token costs and ffmpeg shutdown races. The pattern is operator control and efficiency: more transparency over data and alerts, lower AI spend, and more reliable video restarts.
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: 2026-11-07T14:13:14Z
- Audio duration: PT2M17S
Transcript excerpt
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Good morning, it's November 7th, 2026, and this is Frigate NVR Updates.
The lead signal is control. Frigate is giving operators more say over what leaves their system, what interrupts them, and what AI processing costs, while closing a reliability gap in video shutdown.
First, transparency. PR 24440 implements opt-in analytics. That means a new telemetry setting, a daily report built from dedicated collectors for install, hardware, detection, cameras, features and health, plus a preview in telemetry settings and documented schema checks. For developers, the important detail is…
Related is notification control. PR 23286 adds a custom suspension dialog for camera notifications, with validation and defensive checks. It's UI only, but it matters for daily use, letting users pause alerts for an arbitrary duration instead of fixed presets.
Second, cost and stability. PR 24469 fixes Gemini review descriptions. Frigate was budgeting frames with a pixel-based heuristic, about 46 tokens for a small preview, while Gemini 3 bills roughly 1100 tokens per image regardless of size. With a 24,000 token image budget, that meant sending up to 90 frames for a…
And PR 24884 stops a race when stopping…
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