From 6fa005fd56542e5acd502deeebf3f9f93cbb5d3d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Josh Hawkins <32435876+hawkeye217@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 16 May 2026 18:24:30 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] sync top-level model with default detector's resolved model
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

when the user doesn't define a top-level `model:` block, `FrigateConfig.model` stayed at pydantic field defaults (320×320, /labelmap.txt) while the per-detector model picked up `DEFAULT_MODEL` for openvino on cpu (300×300, coco_91cl_bkgr.txt introduced in #23127), causing `RemoteObjectDetector` to fail with "buffer is too small for requested array" because the SHM was sized from the per-detector model but mapped using the top-level one. After the detector loop, copy the first detector's resolved model up to `self.model` so both sides agree on dimensions and labelmap
---
 frigate/config/config.py    | 8 ++++++++
 frigate/test/test_config.py | 5 ++++-
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/frigate/config/config.py b/frigate/config/config.py
index 6873e6b880..db450ffcf3 100644
--- a/frigate/config/config.py
+++ b/frigate/config/config.py
@@ -708,6 +708,14 @@ class FrigateConfig(FrigateBaseModel):
             detector_config.model = model
             self.detectors[key] = detector_config
 
+        # If the top-level model is unset, adopt the first detector's resolved
+        # model so worker processes (which receive self.model) agree with the
+        # dimensions used to size the detection shared memory in start_detectors.
+        if not self.model.model_dump(exclude_unset=True, warnings="none") and self.detectors:
+            first_detector = next(iter(self.detectors.values()))
+            if first_detector.model is not None:
+                self.model = first_detector.model
+
         for name, camera in self.cameras.items():
             modified_global_config = global_config.copy()
 
diff --git a/frigate/test/test_config.py b/frigate/test/test_config.py
index c63f27430a..1469924b9c 100644
--- a/frigate/test/test_config.py
+++ b/frigate/test/test_config.py
@@ -964,8 +964,11 @@ class TestConfig(unittest.TestCase):
             },
         }
 
+        # With no model defined, the top-level model adopts the default
+        # detector's resolved model (openvino + ssdlite_mobilenet_v2 with the
+        # coco_91cl_bkgr labelmap, which has __background__ at index 0).
         frigate_config = FrigateConfig(**config)
-        assert frigate_config.model.merged_labelmap[0] == "person"
+        assert frigate_config.model.merged_labelmap[1] == "person"
 
     def test_default_labelmap(self):
         config = {