From f02284dec4afe8fcdc19b04133212867cfe94043 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nicolas Mowen <nickmowen213@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2026 09:16:44 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Automatically handle attributes by obj data parsing

---
 frigate/events/maintainer.py    | 13 +++++++++++++
 frigate/track/tracked_object.py | 14 +++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/frigate/events/maintainer.py b/frigate/events/maintainer.py
index 67d8cf2e8..f6ab777c1 100644
--- a/frigate/events/maintainer.py
+++ b/frigate/events/maintainer.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ from typing import Dict
 
 from frigate.comms.events_updater import EventEndPublisher, EventUpdateSubscriber
 from frigate.config import FrigateConfig
+from frigate.config.classification import ObjectClassificationType
 from frigate.events.types import EventStateEnum, EventTypeEnum
 from frigate.models import Event
 from frigate.util.builtin import to_relative_box
@@ -247,6 +248,18 @@ class EventProcessor(threading.Thread):
                     "recognized_license_plate"
                 ][1]
 
+            # only overwrite attribute-type custom model fields in the database if they're set
+            for name, model_config in self.config.classification.custom.items():
+                if (
+                    model_config.object_config
+                    and model_config.object_config.classification_type
+                    == ObjectClassificationType.attribute
+                ):
+                    value = event_data.get(name)
+                    if value is not None:
+                        event[Event.data][name] = value[0]
+                        event[Event.data][f"{name}_score"] = value[1]
+
             (
                 Event.insert(event)
                 .on_conflict(
diff --git a/frigate/track/tracked_object.py b/frigate/track/tracked_object.py
index 453798651..a95221bbd 100644
--- a/frigate/track/tracked_object.py
+++ b/frigate/track/tracked_object.py
@@ -377,7 +377,14 @@ class TrackedObject:
         return (thumb_update, significant_change, path_update, autotracker_update)
 
     def to_dict(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
-        event = {
+        # Tracking internals excluded from output (centroid, estimate, estimate_velocity)
+        _EXCLUDED_OBJ_DATA_KEYS = {
+            "centroid",
+            "estimate",
+            "estimate_velocity",
+        }
+
+        event: dict[str, Any] = {
             "id": self.obj_data["id"],
             "camera": self.camera_config.name,
             "frame_time": self.obj_data["frame_time"],
@@ -412,6 +419,11 @@ class TrackedObject:
             "recognized_license_plate": self.obj_data.get("recognized_license_plate"),
         }
 
+        # Add any other obj_data keys (e.g. custom attribute fields) not yet included
+        for key, value in self.obj_data.items():
+            if key not in _EXCLUDED_OBJ_DATA_KEYS and key not in event:
+                event[key] = value
+
         return event
 
     def is_active(self) -> bool: