From 4f1efb97d7152fdeefc917ca985a82ff5878d4f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Josh Hawkins <32435876+hawkeye217@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2026 21:38:33 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] remove path data from thumbnail payloads

The thumbnail data carried a full copy of the object's path, which went out as snapshot.path_data in every events message alongside the top level path_data. Nothing reads the snapshot copy, and the path has no length limit, so it only made events payloads larger.
---
 frigate/camera/state.py         | 1 -
 frigate/track/tracked_object.py | 1 -
 2 files changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/frigate/camera/state.py b/frigate/camera/state.py
index 764ef10f61..34461e9458 100644
--- a/frigate/camera/state.py
+++ b/frigate/camera/state.py
@@ -392,7 +392,6 @@ class CameraState:
                 "attributes": new_obj.obj_data["attributes"],
                 "current_estimated_speed": 0,
                 "velocity_angle": 0,
-                "path_data": [],
                 "recognized_license_plate": None,
                 "recognized_license_plate_score": None,
             }
diff --git a/frigate/track/tracked_object.py b/frigate/track/tracked_object.py
index 24ae278ac8..9d0dd459fd 100644
--- a/frigate/track/tracked_object.py
+++ b/frigate/track/tracked_object.py
@@ -169,7 +169,6 @@ class TrackedObject:
                         "attributes": obj_data["attributes"],
                         "current_estimated_speed": self.current_estimated_speed,
                         "velocity_angle": self.velocity_angle,
-                        "path_data": self.path_data.copy(),
                         "recognized_license_plate": obj_data.get(
                             "recognized_license_plate"
                         ),