optimize recordings/unavailable gap detection and drop empty motion activity buckets

frigate/api/record.py

@@ -299,22 +299,36 @@ async def no_recordings(
         .iterator()
     )
 
-    # Convert recordings to list of (start, end) tuples
+    # Convert recordings to list of (start, end) tuples, ordered by start_time
     recordings = [(r["start_time"], r["end_time"]) for r in data]
 
+    # Merge overlapping/adjacent recordings into covered intervals. The query
+    # orders by start_time, so a single pass merges them
+    covered: list[tuple[float, float]] = []
+    for rec_start, rec_end in recordings:
+        if covered and rec_start <= covered[-1][1]:
+            covered[-1] = (covered[-1][0], max(covered[-1][1], rec_end))
+        else:
+            covered.append((rec_start, rec_end))
+
     # Iterate through time segments and check if each has any recording
     no_recording_segments = []
     current = after
     current_gap_start = None
+    idx = 0
+    covered_count = len(covered)
 
     while current < before:
         segment_end = min(current + scale, before)
 
-        # Check if this segment overlaps with any recording
+        # Advance past covered intervals that end before this segment begins;
-        has_recording = any(
+        # they cannot overlap this or any later segment.
-            rec_start < segment_end and rec_end > current
+        while idx < covered_count and covered[idx][1] <= current:
-            for rec_start, rec_end in recordings
+            idx += 1
-        )
+
+        # A covered interval overlaps the segment when it starts before the
+        # segment ends (its end is already known to be > current).
+        has_recording = idx < covered_count and covered[idx][0] < segment_end
 
         if not has_recording:
             # This segment has no recordings

frigate/api/review.py

@@ -658,6 +658,11 @@ def motion_activity(
         else:
             df.iloc[i : i + chunk, 0] = 0.0
 
+    # Drop resample gap-fill buckets. The resample above emits a row for every
+    # {scale}s bucket spanning the range, and buckets with no recording get a
+    # motion of 0 (from fillna) and an empty camera (from joining an empty set).
+    df = df[df["camera"] != ""]
+
     # change types for output
     df.index = df.index.astype(int) // (10**9)
     normalized = df.reset_index().to_dict("records")