Add a notice registry and System Health tab (#24178)

* add a notice registry and System Health tab

Problems Frigate detects on its own (ffmpeg crash loops, stuck detectors, failed model downloads, recordings deleted before their retention period) only ever existed as log lines. This adds a `NoticeRegistry` in the main process backed by two tables, an `update_notice` IPC topic so producers in other processes can reach it through the dispatcher, an admin-only API and websocket topic, and a Health tab that lists them. Kinds declare their own mode, severity, and category in one place: state notices are resolved by their producer, event notices are dismissed by the user.

* treat a prerelease as behind its final release

* fix notices clearing early

* rename menu items and update docs

* don't resolve the update notice on a failed version lookup
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Josh Hawkins
2026-09-12 07:30:04 -06:00
committed by Nicolas Mowen
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7. If descriptions are generated but the results are poor or inconsistent, look at the model and the context window.
- Empty fields, missing `shortSummary` values, or `Failed to parse review description` errors usually mean the model is not following the requested JSON schema. Smaller models struggle with structured output. Try a larger parameter size or one of the [recommended models](#recommended-local-models).
- Frigate calculates how many frames to send from the context size the provider reports. If your server reports a different value than it is actually running with, frames will be truncated or the request will fail. Pin the value by adding `context_size` under <NavPath path="Settings > Enrichments > Generative AI > Provider options" /> (`genai.<provider>.provider_options`), and for Ollama also confirm `options.num_ctx` there matches the context you have configured.
- Check **Review Description Speed** and **Object Description Speed** in <NavPath path="System metrics > Enrichments" />. If inference takes tens of seconds, requests will queue behind each other and descriptions will appear to stop. For Ollama, review `OLLAMA_NUM_PARALLEL`, `OLLAMA_MAX_QUEUE`, and `OLLAMA_MAX_LOADED_MODELS` so that concurrent requests from Frigate are handled the way you expect.
- Check **Review Description Speed** and **Object Description Speed** in <NavPath path="Health and Metrics > Enrichments" />. If inference takes tens of seconds, requests will queue behind each other and descriptions will appear to stop. For Ollama, review `OLLAMA_NUM_PARALLEL`, `OLLAMA_MAX_QUEUE`, and `OLLAMA_MAX_LOADED_MODELS` so that concurrent requests from Frigate are handled the way you expect.
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- You may need to adjust your `detection_threshold` if your plates are not being detected.
4. Ensure the characters on detected plates are being _recognized_.
- Check the **Plate recognition** inference time in Enrichment metrics (<NavPath path="System metrics > Enrichments" />). High inference times (> 100ms) could lead to poor recognition results, especially for dedicated LPR cameras where the plate crosses the frame quickly.
- Check the **Plate recognition** inference time in Enrichment metrics (<NavPath path="Health and Metrics > Enrichments" />). High inference times (> 100ms) could lead to poor recognition results, especially for dedicated LPR cameras where the plate crosses the frame quickly.
- Enable `debug_save_plates` to save images of detected text on plates to the clips directory (`/media/frigate/clips/lpr`). Ensure these images are readable and the text is clear.
- Watch the debug view to see plates recognized in real-time. For non-dedicated LPR cameras, the vehicle's label will change to the recognized plate when LPR is enabled and working.
- Adjust `recognition_threshold` settings per the suggestions [above](#advanced-configuration).
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**Resolution (320x320 vs 640x640):** Frigate is optimized for `320x320` models, and `320x320` is the best choice for the vast majority of setups. Frigate is specifically designed to compensate for the smaller model by cropping a region of motion from the full frame and zooming into it before running detection, so a `320x320` model is actually _better_ at small and distant objects, not worse. A `640x640` model is slower and uses more resources, and its main benefit is fitting more objects into a single inference when many objects are spread across a large area. Recent versions of Frigate have improved support for `640x640` models, but `320x320` remains the recommended starting point for nearly all setups.
**Variant size (tiny/small/medium):** Larger variants are gradually more accurate but slower. Whether the difference is noticeable depends on your specific cameras and scenes. A good rule of thumb is to use the largest model your hardware can run without skipping detections, which you can monitor on the <NavPath path="System > Metrics > Cameras" /> page in the UI. Better accuracy only helps if your detector keeps up with the detection load across all cameras.
**Variant size (tiny/small/medium):** Larger variants are gradually more accurate but slower. Whether the difference is noticeable depends on your specific cameras and scenes. A good rule of thumb is to use the largest model your hardware can run without skipping detections, which you can monitor on the <NavPath path="Health and Metrics > Cameras" /> page in the UI. Better accuracy only helps if your detector keeps up with the detection load across all cameras.
**Acceptable inference time depends on your hardware.** Inference time alone does not tell the whole story, because different hardware has different capacity. A GPU can run multiple instances of the same model concurrently, so an inference time around 30ms can still keep up with several cameras. A Google Coral runs only a single instance of the model, so it needs a much lower inference time (around 10ms) to keep up.
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### How Frigate measures recording usage
The **Recordings** value on the Storage Metrics page (<NavPath path="System > Storage" />), and the per-camera **Camera Storage** breakdown, is the sum of the recording segment sizes Frigate has written, taken from Frigate's database. It is **not** computed by a scan of the disk. Frigate tracks usage this way by design: repeatedly walking the entire drive to total its size would keep hard drives spun up and add unnecessary I/O.
The **Recordings** value on the Storage Metrics page (<NavPath path="Health and Metrics > Storage" />), and the per-camera **Camera Storage** breakdown, is the sum of the recording segment sizes Frigate has written, taken from Frigate's database. It is **not** computed by a scan of the disk. Frigate tracks usage this way by design: repeatedly walking the entire drive to total its size would keep hard drives spun up and add unnecessary I/O.
The disk **total** shown beside it, and the free-space figure Frigate uses to decide when to delete recordings, instead come from the operating system's report for the whole filesystem mounted at `/media/frigate`. As a result, the **Unused** value on the page is _total disk capacity minus Frigate's recordings_, not the drive's real free space, which will be lower whenever anything else is stored on the disk.