diff --git a/frigate/embeddings/functions/minilm_l6_v2.py b/frigate/embeddings/functions/minilm_l6_v2.py
index f90060fdb..651a64093 100644
--- a/frigate/embeddings/functions/minilm_l6_v2.py
+++ b/frigate/embeddings/functions/minilm_l6_v2.py
@@ -1,11 +1,107 @@
-"""Embedding function for ONNX MiniLM-L6 model used in Chroma."""
+"""Embedding function for ONNX MiniLM-L6 model."""
 
-from chromadb.utils.embedding_functions import ONNXMiniLM_L6_V2
+import errno
+import logging
+import os
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import List
+
+import numpy as np
+import onnxruntime as ort
+import requests
+from transformers import AutoTokenizer
 
 from frigate.const import MODEL_CACHE_DIR
 
 
-class MiniLMEmbedding(ONNXMiniLM_L6_V2):
-    """Override DOWNLOAD_PATH to download to cache directory."""
+class MiniLMEmbedding:
+    """Embedding function for ONNX MiniLM-L6 model."""
 
     DOWNLOAD_PATH = f"{MODEL_CACHE_DIR}/all-MiniLM-L6-v2"
+    MODEL_NAME = "sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2"
+    IMAGE_MODEL_FILE = "model.onnx"
+    TOKENIZER_FILE = "tokenizer"
+
+    def __init__(self, preferred_providers=None):
+        """Initialize MiniLM Embedding function."""
+        self.tokenizer = self._load_tokenizer()
+
+        model_path = os.path.join(self.DOWNLOAD_PATH, self.IMAGE_MODEL_FILE)
+        if not os.path.exists(model_path):
+            self._download_model()
+
+        if preferred_providers is None:
+            preferred_providers = ["CPUExecutionProvider"]
+
+        self.session = self._load_model(model_path)
+
+    def _load_tokenizer(self):
+        """Load the tokenizer from the local path or download it if not available."""
+        tokenizer_path = os.path.join(self.DOWNLOAD_PATH, self.TOKENIZER_FILE)
+        if os.path.exists(tokenizer_path):
+            return AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(tokenizer_path)
+        else:
+            return AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(self.MODEL_NAME)
+
+    def _download_model(self):
+        """Download the ONNX model and tokenizer from a remote source if they don't exist."""
+        logging.info(f"Downloading {self.MODEL_NAME} ONNX model and tokenizer...")
+
+        # Download the tokenizer
+        tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(self.MODEL_NAME)
+        os.makedirs(self.DOWNLOAD_PATH, exist_ok=True)
+        tokenizer.save_pretrained(os.path.join(self.DOWNLOAD_PATH, self.TOKENIZER_FILE))
+
+        # Download the ONNX model
+        s3_url = f"https://huggingface.co/sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2/resolve/main/onnx/{self.IMAGE_MODEL_FILE}"
+        model_path = os.path.join(self.DOWNLOAD_PATH, self.IMAGE_MODEL_FILE)
+        self._download_from_url(s3_url, model_path)
+
+        logging.info(f"Model and tokenizer saved to {self.DOWNLOAD_PATH}")
+
+    def _download_from_url(self, url: str, save_path: str):
+        """Download a file from a URL and save it to a specified path."""
+        temporary_filename = Path(save_path).with_name(
+            os.path.basename(save_path) + ".part"
+        )
+        temporary_filename.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+        with requests.get(url, stream=True, allow_redirects=True) as r:
+            # if the content type is HTML, it's not the actual model file
+            if "text/html" in r.headers.get("Content-Type", ""):
+                raise ValueError(
+                    f"Expected an ONNX file but received HTML from the URL: {url}"
+                )
+
+            # Ensure the download is successful
+            r.raise_for_status()
+
+            # Write the model to a temporary file first
+            with open(temporary_filename, "wb") as f:
+                for chunk in r.iter_content(chunk_size=8192):
+                    f.write(chunk)
+
+        temporary_filename.rename(save_path)
+
+    def _load_model(self, path: str):
+        """Load the ONNX model from a given path."""
+        providers = ["CPUExecutionProvider"]
+        if os.path.exists(path):
+            return ort.InferenceSession(path, providers=providers)
+        else:
+            raise FileNotFoundError(errno.ENOENT, os.strerror(errno.ENOENT), path)
+
+    def __call__(self, texts: List[str]) -> List[np.ndarray]:
+        """Generate embeddings for the given texts."""
+        inputs = self.tokenizer(
+            texts, padding=True, truncation=True, return_tensors="np"
+        )
+
+        input_names = [input.name for input in self.session.get_inputs()]
+        onnx_inputs = {name: inputs[name] for name in input_names if name in inputs}
+
+        # Run inference
+        outputs = self.session.run(None, onnx_inputs)
+
+        embeddings = outputs[0].mean(axis=1)
+
+        return [embedding for embedding in embeddings]