Frigate
A complete and local NVR
Blake Blackshear



A complete and local NVR designed for Home Assistant with AI object detection. Uses OpenCV and Tensorflow to perform realtime object detection locally for IP cameras.
🛠️ SET-UP
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You can configure your cameras directly within the Frigate app, there is no need to manually edit the configuration files.
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Your RTSP password (if needed) is the "default app password" that is displayed on Frigate's page in the app store (shown after install).
⚠️ As usual, Frigate will attempt to update its configuration automatically. It is still recommended to back up your current config and database before upgrading.
This release includes a security fix for authenticated users:
- Fixed a vulnerability that could allow arbitrary file read via the Export Thumbnail feature
Other improvements in this update include:
- Fixed issues with the best thumbnail endpoint and model selection
- Improved live video loading performance
- Enhanced RF-DETR model export functionality
- Added a robots.txt file
Full release notes are available at https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate/releases
⚠️ As usual, Frigate will attempt to update its configuration automatically. It is still recommended to back up your current config and database before upgrading. This update adds support for GPU passthrough in umbrelOS 1.5.
The release notes of the previous version included the following changes:
- Improved recording playback startup time on slow connections
- Fixed various UI issues and layout problems
- Improved audio support for go2rtc streams
- Fixed autotracking issues for some cameras
- Added support for Frigate+ models
Full release notes are available at https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate/releases
⚠️ As usual, Frigate will attempt to update its configuration automatically. It is still recommended to back up your current config and database before upgrading.
This is a maintenance release for Frigate 0.16 that includes bugfixes and minor changes. Some key highlights include:
- Improved recording playback startup time on slow connections
- Fixed various UI issues and layout problems
- Improved audio support for go2rtc streams
- Fixed autotracking issues for some cameras
- Added support for Frigate+ models
Full release notes are available at https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate/releases
⚠️ As usual, Frigate will attempt to update its configuration automatically. It is still recommended to back up your current config and database before upgrading.
This release includes several major new features and improvements:
- Face Recognition: Frigate can now detect and recognize faces, applying sub-labels to known faces.
- License Plate Recognition (LPR): Frigate can now detect and recognize license plates, saving recognized plates to tracked car objects.
- Viewer Role: A new role that restricts access to system features and the configuration editor.
- Improved Support For Object Detection Hardware: Including updates for Hailo8, ONNX & OpenVINO, and RockChip (RKNN).
- Camera Improvements: Including the ability to dynamically enable/disable cameras and select multiple streams per camera.
- UI Changes: Including a rewritten review timeline, object path plotting, and edge/point snapping in the Mask/Zone editor.
Full release notes are available at https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate/releases
⚠️ As usual, Frigate will attempt to update its configuration automatically. It is still recommended to back up your current config and database before upgrading.
This is a maintenance release for Frigate 0.15 that includes fixes for HAOS 16 "too many open files" errors.
Key changes include:
- Set ulimit to address "too many open files" errors
- Fix ulimit setting and script
Full release notes are available at https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate/releases
⚠️ As usual, Frigate will attempt to update its configuration automatically. It is still recommended to back up your current config and database before upgrading.
This is a maintenance release that includes two bugfixes:
- Fixed a crash in the 'get_current_frame()' function
- Fixed the TensorRT model preparation script
Full release notes are available at https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate/releases
⚠️ As usual, Frigate will attempt to update its configuration automatically. It is still recommended to back up your current config and database before upgrading.
Key changes include:
- Rewritten shared memory (SHM) system for improved stability
- New recording configuration for better control of alerts and detections retention
- New Explore feature for searching and exploring tracked objects
- Native notifications support via WebPush protocol
- Improved tools for debugging with Review Item Details and Object Lifecycle panes
- New object detectors including ONNX, AMD MiGraphX, and Hailo-8 support
- Enhanced UI with improved storage metrics, camera stream info, and keyboard shortcuts
Full release notes are available at https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate/releases
This is a maintenance release for Frigate 0.14 that includes bugfixes as well as performance and stability improvements.
Key highlights:
- Fixed authentication when serving Frigate at a subpath
- Improved iOS export functionality
- Enhanced review camera sorting
- Added confirmation dialog before deleting review items
- Improved pan/pinch/zoom capability on Frigate+ view snapshots
- Fixed issues with recordings view and live player
- Added shortcut key "r" to mark items as reviewed in Review pane
- Various UI and performance enhancements
Full release notes are available at https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate/releases
⚠️ There are several breaking changes in this release. Frigate will attempt to update the configuration automatically; however, in some cases manual changes may be required.
Please review the full release notes before upgrading: https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate/releases/tag/v0.14.0
⚠️ Breaking Changes:
- Existing events will not be visible in the new UI. You may want to export any starred/favorite events before upgrading. Recordings can still be viewed in the new UI using the recordings viewer.
- Zone/mask coordinates are now stored in the config as relative values
- The UI's live mode is now intelligently selected. The live_mode config option is now deprecated and should be removed.
- RTMP was deprecated in 0.13 and has been fully removed in 0.14. You will need to remove any rtmp references in your config file.
- OpenVINO upgrade: Intel Neural Compute sticks no longer supported
New Features:
- Brand new UI with improved dashboard and review capabilities
- Authentication support
- Loitering time for zones
- Two-way talk for supported cameras
- Rockchip boards now support object detection
- Automatic hardware acceleration detection
Other Notable UI Changes
- System stats - New charts and graphs with colored segments to track system usage history and more quickly identify problems or issues.
- Status bar - A new status bar gives at-a-glance CPU/GPU usage as well as any problems or issues with Frigate.
- New log viewer - The log viewer now provides a pane with links to solutions for common issues.
- Real-time motion tuning - Tune motion detection settings for your cameras without editing your config file and restarting.
- New mask and zone editor - Edit your masks and zones with a much-improved editor.
Full release notes are available at https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate/releases
This update takes Frigate from 0.12.1 to 0.13.2.
Full release notes are available at https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate/releases
- Version0.16.2
- CategoryHome & Automation
- Source codePublic
- Developed by
- Submitted by
- Compatible withumbrelOS 0.5 or later
