Frigate NVR Updates: Review Presets, Export Polish, and Chat Safety
Three pull requests focus on faster access to historical footage and safer chat control. The main pattern is review and export workflow polish, led by new calendar presets for the review filters.
Duration: PT2M5S
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: 2026-10-25T13:12:44Z
- Audio duration: PT2M5S
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Good morning, today is Sunday, October 25th, 2026, and you're listening to Frigate NVR Updates.
The clear pattern today is reducing friction around historical footage, with two user-facing changes focused on finding and exporting events faster, alongside one reliability fix for chat control.
First, review navigation is expanding beyond the day-by-day view. PR 24775 adds calendar period presets to review filters, building on the existing last 24 hours option. The proposal, linked to issue 16680, would add this week, last week, this month and last month shortcuts, aimed at catching up after time away or…
Closely related is export. PR 24787 makes focused improvements to the export dialog, including the custom time selector and multi-export path, linked to issue 24774. Specifics in the feed are limited, but the direction matches the review work: making time-range selection more predictable when moving from finding…
Separately, PR 24776 tightens control of automated watches. It adds an ownership check before stopping a camera watch from chat, with test coverage for that stop path. That prevents one session from inadvertently ending another user's watch, a small but important correctness…
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