Frigate NVR Updates: Runtime Toggle State Finally Gets Fixed
Two back-to-back fixes from Josh Hawkins closed a bug where saving config or deleting a camera could silently undo a user's runtime on/off toggles and flood MQTT and disk with redundant writes; smaller fixes landed for OpenVINO model builds, a test string bug, and frontend polish.
Duration: PT2M28S
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: 2026-07-17T13:13:47Z
- Audio duration: PT2M28S
Transcript excerpt
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Good morning. It's July 17th, 2026, and this is Frigate NVR Updates.
The headline today is a two-part fix to runtime camera toggles, the on/off, detect, recording, and snapshot switches you can flip from the dashboard without touching YAML.
PR 23734 found that saving config or deleting a camera re-parsed YAML into a fresh config object and swapped it in — but dropped the runtime overrides in the process. A camera you'd turned off from the dashboard could come back on in the UI after an unrelated save, even though the actual worker process never…
That fix worked, but it came with a cost: every config save now replayed every stored toggle through the full command path, which meant a ZMQ broadcast, a retained MQTT message, and a disk write per camera, every time — even when nothing changed. PR 23739 caught this and split the logic in two: a lightweight method…
Smaller but notable: mweinelt's PR 23740 quieted syntax warnings from bad escape sequences in the RTSP password test — a quick hygiene fix. NickM-27 updated OpenVINO model generation in PR 23733, touching the Docker build and requirements for that path. And on the frontend, ZhaiSoul's PR 23751 fixed logger page…
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