Implement opt-in analytics (#24440)

* Add analytics opt-in setting, prompt notice kind, and notice watermarks

* Add the analytics report schema

* Add the analytics state file

* Add the install and hardware analytics collectors

* Add the detection analytics collector

* Add the cameras analytics collector

* Add the features analytics collector

* Add the health analytics collector

* Build analytics reports from the section collectors

* Add the analytics report transport

* Send the daily analytics report from the main process

* Add the analytics preview API

* Generate the analytics schema and check it in CI

* Record the image variant in each Dockerfile

* Show the analytics preview in telemetry settings

* Document anonymous analytics

* change wording

* fixes

* update network requirements docs

* adapt analytics to free-form model scenes, split notice counts, and peewee 4

* fixes

* change log levels

* docstrings

* docstrings

* honor file-only analytics opt-outs and skip pre-consent notices

An opt-out saved through the YAML editor's "Save only" or a hand edit never reached the live config, so reports kept going out under the old install ID until a restart. The reporter now reads telemetry.analytics from the config file when a report is due, validated with TelemetryConfig so yes, on, and 1 still count as consent, and an opt-out there deletes the state file and skips the send. The first report under a new install ID also carried every notice since the counters started, including ones from before the opt-in, so a fresh state file now resets the notice watermarks before the report's snapshot.

* take the notice baseline at opt-in instead of the first send

The watermark reset ran at the first send attempt, so notices raised between the opt-in and that send, up to 45 minutes after a startup, were absorbed into the reset and never reported. The reporter now writes the new install ID and resets the watermarks as soon as it sees consent without a state file.

* report notice counts cumulatively from a database baseline

Moving watermarks after each accepted send kept the install ID and the notice baseline out of step: pre-consent notices went out, notices raised before the first send were dropped, and a send that finished after an off/on toggle overwrote the new identity's baseline. health.notices now carries cumulative counts since the install ID was created. Creating an ID copies the lifetime counts into the existing reported_* columns before the state file names it, and nothing is written after a send, so the backend diffs consecutive reports per install ID.

* write held notice repeats before the analytics baseline reset

Repeats of batched kinds like failed_login wait in memory until the stats emitter flushes them, so a baseline reset taken while some were held left them out, and the next flush counted those pre-opt-in repeats as post-consent. The reset now writes held repeats to the notice history under the same lock before copying the counts.

* seed detector inference speed from the first inference

The average started at 0 so idle detectors read 0, but that made every detector's speed climb from 0 for its first couple dozen inferences after a start. Detectors now use the same InferenceSpeed helper as enrichments, so the first inference seeds the average and idle detectors still read 0.
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---
id: analytics
title: Anonymous Analytics
---
import AnalyticsFields from "@site/src/components/AnalyticsFields";
import NavPath from "@site/src/components/NavPath";
Frigate can send one anonymous usage report a day. The reports show the maintainers which hardware to support, which features people use, and how releases perform. Sharing is off until you turn it on.
## Turning it on
Enable **Share anonymous analytics** at <NavPath path="Settings > System > Telemetry" />, or set it in your config:
```yaml
telemetry:
analytics: true
```
The same page has a **Preview the report** button that shows exactly what the next report contains.
## How it's sent
- Once a day, as a JSON POST to `https://analytics.frigate.video/report`
- The server looks up your country and region from your IP address and never stores the address
- Raw reports are kept for 60 days; only aggregate totals are published
- A random install ID, stored in `/config/.analytics.json`, keeps your install from being counted twice. Turning sharing off deletes it
## What's never sent
- Camera, zone, group, profile, or user names
- Object labels, face names, or license plate text
- IP addresses, hostnames, URLs, or stream paths
- Credentials or API keys
- Events, recordings, or anything from them
## Every field
Fields marked public appear in the published totals. The machine-readable schema is [frigate-analytics-schema.json](pathname:///frigate-analytics-schema.json).
<AnalyticsFields />
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# Optional: Telemetry configuration
telemetry:
# Optional: Share one anonymous usage report a day (default: shown below)
# NOTE: See https://docs.frigate.video/configuration/advanced/analytics for what is sent
analytics: False
# Optional: Enabled network interfaces for bandwidth stats monitoring (default: empty list, let nethogs search all)
network_interfaces:
- eth