* Add combined motion and object Birdseye mode
Add a motion_objects mode that keeps Birdseye active when motion is detected or a confirmed tracked object is present, including stationary objects.
Wire the mode through configuration, runtime commands, API schemas, documentation, and UI labels. Exclude false-positive trackers and add regression coverage for Birdseye activation and MQTT validation.
* Refactor Birdseye activity types as booleans
Replace combination-specific Birdseye modes with composable boolean activity types for motion, active objects, stationary objects, and continuous display.
Preserve legacy single-mode configuration and MQTT inputs, support canonical comma-separated MQTT combinations, and allow scalar YAML values to be replaced by nested settings through the config API.
* Preserve OpenVINO config translations
Regenerate the configuration translations with the OpenVINO detector schema available so the unrelated production detector labels remain intact.
* Preserve partial Birdseye mode overrides
Allow an empty activity selection with a canonical NONE MQTT state so partial camera and profile overrides can disable inherited flags without failing validation.
Add regression coverage for camera and profile inheritance, document the NONE contract, and keep the generated schema fixture scoped to Birdseye.
* Address Birdseye activity review feedback
Move scalar mode compatibility into the 0.18-1 config migration and reject empty activity selections instead of publishing a NONE state.
Pass activity signals through a frozen dataclass, preserve existing active-object tracker behavior, and require confirmed stationary objects. Revert the generic YAML mutation and cover migration, inheritance, MQTT, and activation regressions.
* Move Birdseye migration to 0.19
Use the 0.19-0 configuration revision for converting scalar Birdseye modes to composable activity flags, and update the migration regression coverage accordingly.
* Remove Birdseye migration test
Drop the dedicated config migration test as requested during review while retaining the 0.19-0 migration implementation.
* fix watchdog process restarts reverting to the boot config
/api/config/set parses a new FrigateConfig and swaps the API and dispatcher onto it, but FrigateApp.config was never rebound, so the watchdog factories rebuilt a crashed process from the config as of startup. Fix is to read through a ConfigHolder that the swap updates.
* fix birdseye camera overrides being clobbered by a global mode change
A global birdseye save published only the global object, leaving the output process to infer which cameras were inheriting by comparing against the previous global mode. That cannot tell an inherited value from an explicit one that happens to match, so it overwrote the override until a restart. Publish the per-camera values the config parse already resolved instead.
* Reject non-finite numbers in GenAI review descriptions
A model returning NaN for confidence or potential_threat_level slipped through the model_construct fallback, which skips validation, and was written into the review segment's JSON data. NaN is not valid JSON, so every subsequent /review request failed with "Out of range float values are not JSON compliant", blanking the review page for any time range containing the poisoned row.
* restore fused DetectionOutput in the OpenVINO SSD model conversion
* fix rgb swap issue for face dataset testing script
/api/config/set and camera deletion re-parse yaml into a fresh FrigateConfig and swap it in, then re-layered the persisted runtime toggle overrides so a camera the user turned off wouldn't come back on. That re-layer ran apply_runtime_state, which replays each override through the command handlers, so every save re-published a ZMQ config update, a retained MQTT state message, and a runtime-state disk write for every camera with a stored toggle. All of it was redundant: the worker processes were never swapped and still hold the live toggle values, so only the in-process config object the API and dispatcher read was out of date. The extra traffic churned the retained MQTT topics, amplified disk writes, and co-drained enabled updates with other topics on the config socket.
Add Dispatcher.reapply_runtime_state_to_config, which corrects only the swapped-in config object, mirroring the field mutations and gates of the _on_*_command handlers with no ZMQ, MQTT, or disk writes. swap_runtime_config now calls it instead of apply_runtime_state; apply_runtime_state is unchanged and still used at startup, where the workers genuinely must be told.
* preserve runtime camera toggles across config saves
Runtime toggles (camera on/off, detect, recordings, snapshots, audio) mutate the in-memory config and persist an override to .runtime_state.json. /api/config/set re-parses yaml into a fresh FrigateConfig and swaps it in, re-applying the yaml and profile layers but dropping the runtime layer, so a camera turned off from the dashboard came back on when an unrelated camera was saved. The workers were never notified, so it only appeared to come back: the UI streamed go2rtc while ffmpeg stayed stopped.
Extract the startup replay into Dispatcher.apply_runtime_state() and call it from config_set after the swap, re-layering the overrides and republishing them so workers and the UI reconverge.
Remove the broad clear_runtime_state() from ProfileManager.update_config, which is only ever reached from config_set: with a profile active, every save wiped every camera's overrides from disk. The broad wipe stays in activate_profile, where a real profile switch does invalidate the steady state. Saves still clear the keys they rewrote via clear_runtime_state_for_yaml_keys, so yaml wins where the two disagree.
* sync runtime config on camera delete and prune its overrides
Deleting a camera re-parsed yaml into a fresh FrigateConfig but only rebound app.frigate_config and genai_manager, never dispatcher.config (nor profile_manager, stats_emitter, or the runtime overrides). The API and the dispatcher then drifted onto different config objects until the next config save re-synced them, so the API reported surviving cameras with their yaml enabled state while the dispatcher still acted on their real runtime state.
Extract the config swap that config_set already does into a shared swap_runtime_config helper and call it from both sites, so every collaborator is rebound and the surviving cameras' runtime toggles are re-layered. Also drop the deleted camera's persisted overrides via a new clear_camera so a camera later added under the same name does not inherit them.
* face recognition dynamic config
* lpr dynamic config
* safe changes for birdseye dynamic config
* bird classification dynamic config
* always assign new config to stats emitter to make telemetry fields dynamic
* add wildcard support for camera config updates in config_set
* update restart required fields for global sections
* add test
* fix rebase issue
* collapsible settings sidebar
use the preexisting control available with shadcn's sidebar (cmd/ctrl-B) to give users more space to set masks/zones on smaller screens
* dynamic ffmpeg
* ensure previews dir exists
when ffmpeg processes restart, there's a brief window where the preview frame generation pipeline is torn down and restarted. before these changes, ffmpeg only restarted on crash/stall recovery or full Frigate restart. Now that ffmpeg restarts happen on-demand via config changes, there's a higher chance a frontend request hits the preview_mp4 or preview_gif endpoints during that brief restart window when the directory might not exist yet. The existing os.listdir() call would throw FileNotFoundError without a directory existence check. this fix just checks if the directory exists and returns 404 if not, exactly how preview_thumbnail already handles the same scenario a few lines below
* global ffmpeg section
* clean up
* tweak
* fix test
