restart_frigate() called psutil.Process(1).terminate() to signal s6-svscan, but s6-svscan runs as root while frigate runs as uid 1000, so the call raised AccessDenied. That exception escaped every caller: the UI restart button dropped its websocket client, MQTT restart and Save & Restart just logged and did nothing, and the watchdog crashed its own monitoring thread on a dead detector. This catches AccessDenied and falls through to the existing SIGINT branch, which exits the process for s6 to restart it.
`get_dst_transitions` probed the offset once every 24 hours from the start time and reported a change at the first probe after it, up to a day late, so events, review items and recordings near a transition were grouped into days with the old offset. A transition after the last daily probe wasn't found at all. The end of the range is probed too now, and a probe that sees the offset change bisects the interval to the second of the transition.
* Add support for running transcription with GenAI
* Improve audio joining
* Fix GenAI model capability reporting
* Support language correctly
* Migrate existing users to keep english selected
* Fix models
* Fix tests
* Fix accepted null model
* Handle slwo providers
* 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
* Refactor hardware stats to have consolidated ffmpeg, detector, and enrichments running.
* Cleanup hardware access that is not passed into the container
* Remove network stats from hardware refactor
* Run the frigate service as the frigate user
* Run go2rtc as its own restricted user
* Run nginx as the frigate user with writable state in /tmp/nginx
* Disable bandwidth stats gracefully when not running as root
* Hand TensorRT model cache ownership to the runtime user
* Document non-root operation and per-hardware device access
* Create /media/frigate after the ownership sweep
* Assert non-root services, JWT migration, and escape hatch in CI
* only write the sweep sentinel when a media volume is mounted
* tolerate homekit config chown failures in the go2rtc run script
* chown the s6 log pipe so non-root nginx can reopen /dev/stdout
* set HOME to /config for non-root services
* run smoke nginx -t and the write probe as the runtime user
* re-own the nginx shm cache on service restart
* discard stdout for the unprivileged smoke nginx -t
* unwrap hard-wrapped prose in the installation docs
* report progress during the ownership sweep
* document EXTRA_GROUPS as the only device access path for dropped services
* expand the non-root device access docs with diagnosis steps and udev rules
* document network storage ownership and the remaining detector hardware
* skip lost+found during the ownership sweep
* hand /tmp/cache to the runtime user before services start
* make bundled models readable by the runtime user
* reload nginx by signaling the master instead of parsing its config as root
* harden root writes into unprivileged-owned paths
Restrict the sweep sentinel to a mount at or below /media/frigate so a
parent /media mount cannot bless a later-shadowed volume. Rebuild
/tmp/nginx root-owned each start so root's cp and tempio writes cannot
follow a symlink an unprivileged nginx planted in the previous run.
* collapse the duplicated sentinel comment
* add a service-runs-as-root helper for granular root services
* validate FRIGATE_ROOT_SERVICES and fail fast on unknown names
* let services listed in FRIGATE_ROOT_SERVICES skip the privilege drop
* record the root-services mode in the sentinel and sweep small trees each boot
* cache the runtime ids in the ownership helper
* chown recordings, previews, and exports to the runtime user at create
* chown the database files after init
* recommend FRIGATE_ROOT_SERVICES in the bandwidth stats warning
* assert granular root services in CI
* document FRIGATE_ROOT_SERVICES
* own every directory level created for a recording segment
* clear the cached runtime ids when ownership tests finish
* skip missing media paths in the per-boot ownership sweep
* clarify granular root services docs
* clean up
* install acl for device access grants
* grant runtime users access to mapped device nodes at boot
* assert device access grants in CI
* document automatic device access grants
* stop telling users device access needs host side setup
* clarify the non-root docs
* link the migration script to the repo
* group the manual device setup under one section
* harden against symlink attacks
/config is owned by the unprivileged runtime user after the ownership sweep, so root operations on files there could be redirected by a planted symlink.
- go2rtc HomeKit setup: replace the root yq/jq normalization and chown with an O_NOFOLLOW helper (prepare_homekit.py), so a symlink at go2rtc_homekit.yml can't redirect a root write or chown onto another file
- go2rtc binary override: ignore /config/go2rtc whenever the service runs as root, so a planted binary can't exec as root under FRIGATE_ROOT_SERVICES
- sweep sentinel: read and write it through safe-sentinel, which trusts only a root-owned regular file and never follows a symlink, so it can't be forged to skip the migration or symlinked to clobber a root file
- ownership sweep: chown with -execdir so a parent directory swapped for a symlink mid-walk can't redirect the chown out of the volume
- validate inputs: restrict DEVICE_ACL_PATHS to /dev, require nonzero numeric EXTRA_GROUPS, and reject PUID/PGID that collide with the go2rtc ids
- docs: correct the TLS key ownership note to match what actually happens
* tweak docs
* stop the ownership sweep chasing entries other mechanisms own
* keep custom binaries out of root services only under granular root
* add onboarding wizard for new users
* resolve hwaccel per camera and clarify recording retention
The hwaccel step listed every preset Frigate ships, so an Intel box was offered Raspberry Pi and Rockchip decoding, and the codec specific presets (`preset-intel-qsv-h264` vs `-h265`) were offered as global values that break as soon as two cameras use different codecs. `/hardware/hwaccel` now returns the decoding families the probed hardware can actually use, each carrying a preset per codec, and the wizard resolves the family against the detect stream codec the camera wizard already probed: one global `ffmpeg.hwaccel_args` when every camera agrees, per-camera `cameras.<name>.ffmpeg.hwaccel_args` when they don't. The global stays on `auto` in that case so cameras added later still resolve at startup. A gen13+ Intel machine keeps its QuickSync recommendation with mixed h264 and h265 cameras instead of dropping to vaapi.
The recording step's "Days to retain recordings" only wrote alert and detection retention, and the storage estimate under it assumed continuous recording. It now asks what to record in plain language, writes `record.continuous.days` to match, shows the estimate only for continuous, and drops the spinner arrows on the number input.
* clean up
* add light/dark mode icon switcher
* use yml as default config file extension when not found
* i18n tweaks
* gate the setup wizard on cameras instead of a config key
* render setup wizard steps by key
* share the setup wizard e2e helpers and mock users
* add an account step to the setup wizard
* add setup wizard account step e2e coverage
* cover the account step's restart behavior
* button consistency
* fix test
* docs
* fixes
* pin genai review frames to the main stream
* retain previews as long as either stream has recordings
* watch sub stream recording health separately from main
* reject record_sub on the same input as record and document the role
* derive recording paths from the cache segment timestamp
Recording paths carry one second of resolution, but since sub stream recording start times are resolved to fractional wall clock, anchored to the cache file mtime and chained to the previous segment's end. A stream cutting segments faster than once a second resolves consecutive segments into the same second, so two rows collide on the unique path index and the batch insert fails. The cache segment name is unique per camera stream and second by construction because ffmpeg names segments with strftime, so the recording path is now built from that timestamp while the row keeps the resolved start time. This also restores the path semantics from before sub stream recording, when start times came straight from the cache filename.
Nothing derives times from recording paths: playback offsets, stream switching, and export all use the row's start time, which is unchanged, and the recordings sync matches files by exact path string.
* keep the rest of a recording batch when one row conflicts
* only publish record_sub status when a sub stream is configured
* don't shadow camera_cfg when publishing empty cache streams
* back off restarts when a recording stream goes stale
* give the shared sub stream grace on any capture thread reset
* include segment details in recording discard warnings
* Create frigate and go2rtc runtime users in the image
* Add single fix-ownership helper for volume permission migration
* Add init-usermod oneshot for PUID and PGID remapping
* Chown newly created runtime directories to the frigate user
* Run sentinel-guarded ownership sweep during prepare
* Add host-side volume permission migration script
* Guard log directory ownership for user-mode startup
* Fall back to plain s6-log when running without root
* Assert PUID remapping and sweep sentinel in CI smoke test
* Skip the ownership sweep in the devcontainer
* Pin FRIGATE_RUN_AS_ROOT in ownership tests
* Do not record the sweep as complete when a chown failed
* Validate PUID and PGID in the migration script
* Treat a failed ownership scan as an incomplete sweep
* Reject PUID and PGID of 0 during remapping
* Handle symlinks, dry runs, and sentinel write failures in the sweep
* Treat an absent sweep root as an incomplete sweep
* improve keyframes messages
* don't pad the labelmap with unknown
`load_labels()` prefilled 91 `unknown` entries before reading the label file, so any model with fewer than 91 classes kept that padding in `merged_labelmap` and `unknown` showed up as a selectable object type in the objects settings UI. The padding only existed so `RemoteObjectDetector.detect` could index the labelmap without a KeyError, and it didn't even cover the empty-file case or Frigate+, which never had a prefill. Both lookups now skip class ids the labelmap doesn't name and warn once per id.
* add secrets.yaml and merge substitution sources by precedence
FRIGATE_ENV_VARS was built once at import from container env and /run/secrets, and the environment_vars validator overwrote it unconditionally, so the block beat the deployment and nothing could be re-read. Sources are now separate dicts merged lowest to highest (environment_vars, secrets.yaml, container env, credentials directory), re-read at the top of every parse, and a collision warns once naming the winner. An undefined {FRIGATE_*} raises a ValueError subclass so pydantic reports the field instead of a KeyError traceback.
* use the shared substitution namespace in go2rtc config
The generator rebuilt the namespace itself from os.environ and a hardcoded /run/secrets, so it never saw environment_vars or CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY, and str.format made any stray brace fatal. It now installs the FRIGATE_ names from environment_vars and substitutes streams the same way every other field does.
* read the exec override from an import time snapshot
environment_vars is exported into os.environ, and is_go2rtc_arbitrary_exec_allowed read os.environ live, so the config file could enable exec sources. Snapshot the variable at import, which runs before any config is loaded.
* docs
* clarify docs
ffmpeg's stderr was piped but never read, so recording segments that generate more than 64 KB of ffmpeg warnings blocked ffmpeg mid-write, stranding the streaming thread and its anyio threadpool token for good. Enough of those and every sync endpoint stops responding until restart. The trigger is how noisy the segments are, not how long the clip is.
Send stderr to a temp file instead, and guarantee ffmpeg teardown and playlist cleanup on every exit path, including client disconnect.
Also fixes two bugs the deadlock hid: the failure branch was unreachable because returncode is None mid-loop, so the playlist file leaked and ffmpeg's logs were never reported. Playlist files now get a unique name so concurrent requests for one range cannot delete each other's input.
Extracts the terminate helper motion search already had into frigate/util/ffmpeg.py, now shared by both streaming call sites.
* serve a segment startup ladder so seeks begin playing sooner
nginx-vod was handed one 10s segment per recording file, so every playlist start had to download and decode a full segment before the first frame. Declare real keyframe data per clip and let nginx cut short leading segments from it.
- add vod_bootstrap_segment_durations 1000/2000/4000 so each playlist starts with 1s/2s/4s segments before settling at 10s
- emit real clip-relative keyFrameDurations (plus firstKeyFrameOffset when nonzero) from the recording keyframe index; rows without an index keep the whole-clip declaration, the only safe cut without keyframe knowledge
- drop the manifest's segment_duration field, which was always inert: nginx-vod parses only camelCase segmentDuration
- rebuild the player source at the seek target, quantized to a 10s grid, so the ladder applies to every seek and seek URLs stay repeatable for nginx's mapping and response caches
- route the seek model, in-range checks, and the stale-report guard through the source window rather than the chunk range
- bridge repositioning seeks (>2s from the last played timestamp) through the preview player and hold the release anchor one commit, so neither path paints a stale frame
- clear a pending loading timer before replacing it; an orphaned timer escaped onPlaying's clearTimeout and flashed loading mid-playback
* keep recordings queries on their indexes
Several recordings queries degraded into full scans or large sorts on big databases: the planner ignored index order, or the query shape gave it nothing tight to seek on. Reshape them into bounded seeks and add the composite index the per-stream lookups need.
- index recordings on (camera, stream_type, start_time DESC) and drop the (camera, stream_type) index it supersedes
- walk the recordings summary day by day with EXISTS probes and per-camera MIN/MAX seeks, skipping ahead over empty gaps instead of bucketing every row for the requested cameras
- run the summary endpoint on the event loop rather than the threadpool
- bound the unavailable-recordings query by start_time per camera and merge the results in Python
- bound the expire query's start_time so it seeks the retention window instead of scanning a camera's whole history
- enumerate deleted cameras with one index seek each rather than a camera NOT IN (...) scan
- compute bandwidth with segment_size filtered in a CASE projection; as a WHERE predicate it baited the planner into the (camera, segment_size) index plus a full sort of the camera's history
- fall back to a 1000-segment window when the recent 100 are all zero-size, so an ingest glitch doesn't report zero bandwidth
- limit the needs_refresh count instead of counting every segment
- cover sub-only and sparse calendar days, midnight-spanning day attribution, multi-camera gap merging, deleted-camera expiry, and zero-size segment runs
* fix mypy
* add sub stream recording with adaptive quality playback
Optionally record a second, lower bitrate stream alongside the main
recording stream via a `record_sub` input role and `record.sub` config block, with its own retention windows.
Recordings rows now carry the stream type plus the media details needed to serve both streams from one manifest: video codec, audio presence, audio codec and rate, and a record-time keyframe index.
Playback resolves coverage across both streams and merges them into a single VOD sequence, falling back to a discontinuity manifest with per-clip init segments when the media signatures differ. The player exposes a quality selector, and an auto governor picks the stream from stall time, bandwidth, codec support, and the save-data hint.
* fix tests and i18n
* 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.
* run lpr on more vehicle types by default
before, a config change to attribute_map was required
* logging tweaks
* remove arg
* use attributes for frontend check
* docs
* only check thumbnail attributes the object can have
sanitize_filename leaves ".." intact and collapses variants like "..:" and "..*" to "..", so filesystem paths built from face names, classification model/category names, image ids, and trigger data could escape their base directory. Route every such site through new frigate/util/path.py helpers (safe_join, sanitize_path_component, sanitize_contained_path), which reject traversal and verify containment.
Worst case was DELETE /classification/{name}, which rmtree'd /media/frigate and /config while returning 200.
Important to note that all affected endpoints already require admin permission, so this sould be considered hardening rather than fixing exploitable code.
* add host npu requirements to docs
* allow toggling live audio transcription via mqtt
* improve spacing consistency on mobile drawers
* fix clearing the region grid not surviving a restart
* 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
* Pin ruff
* Add python upgrade fixes
This enables python upgrade checks in ruff to look for deprecated types and patterns. This namely fixes:
- usage of deprecated `Typing` which is now built in
- some specific exceptions which are caught and have new aliases
Some specific UP checks were also ignored as they are stylistic / unimportant and likely to cause bugs
* Remove async blocking calls
Use asyncio.to_thread on two remaining blocking calls to fix hanging event thread loop. Enable this specific rule to block it in the future.
* Use proper logging mechanism
* Correctly format logs
* Raise with context
When raising an exception include the from context to improve debugging
* Cleanup
Deleting the last entry of a mapping or sequence via config/set orphaned ruamel's comment tokens, which were then emitted above a flow-style {} / [] at column 0, which is unparseable yaml that failed validation and silently rolled the change back. The fix is to clear the emptied collection's stale comment metadata (and the parent's entry for it) so the dump stays valid. Non-empty collections are left untouched so sibling comments are preserved. This covers both emptied maps and emptied lists.
Resolve conflicts in the export pipeline where dev's job-queue refactor
met master's chapter-metadata and security work.
- Unify chapter support under ChaptersEnum (none / recording_segments /
review_items); the realtime stream-copy export selects the per-segment
or per-review-item builder by the camera's configured mode. Thread
chapters through ExportRecordingsBody -> _build_export_job -> ExportJob
-> RecordingExporter.
- Keep master's creation_time/comment export metadata and fix a
video_path duplication the textual merge introduced in the preview
command.
- Move the chapters request field to ExportRecordingsBody (the single
export endpoint) where it is actually honored.
Restore security fixes the automatic merge would have reverted:
- frigate/util/services.py: restore the #23493 rename to the public
is_go2rtc_arbitrary_exec_allowed so create_config.py's dynamic-source
exec guard imports and runs (the merge otherwise left a broken import).
- Preserve the export image-path ".." traversal check inside
_sanitize_existing_image, applied to single/custom/batch exports.
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* perf(track): avoid numpy reductions on tiny box lists in position smoothing
update_position runs per tracked object per frame. While a position has
fewer than 10 samples it calls np.percentile four times, and average_boxes
(per stationary object per frame) calls np.mean four times - all on lists of
at most 10 ints, where numpy's per-call dispatch/validation overhead
dominates the actual work.
Replace them with pure-Python equivalents:
- average_boxes: sum()/len() instead of np.mean (bit-identical output)
- interpolated_percentile(): linear-interpolated percentile matching
numpy.percentile (including its lerp branch at frac>=0.5) for the small
lists used here, in place of np.percentile
Measured in the release image (numpy 1.26.4) on a 10-element list:
np.percentile 18735 ns -> 191 ns/call (98x); np.mean-based average_boxes
7480 ns -> 591 ns (12.7x); ~74 us saved per object-frame in update_position.
A live py-spy --gil profile of a camera process_frames worker showed
np.percentile (update_position) and np.mean (average_boxes) among the top
Frigate-owned on-CPU frames.
Output is unchanged: added tests assert both helpers are bit-identical to
numpy over randomized small inputs.
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* Drop interpolated_percentile, keep only average_boxes
Per review: reimplementing np.percentile hurts readability and risks
divergence from numpy (e.g. numpy 2.x). Revert update_position to
np.percentile and remove the helper; keep only the average_boxes change
(sum()/len() instead of np.mean), which stays bit-identical.
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video/detect.py runs these for every frame:
- get_cluster_candidates: used_boxes was a list with `in` membership tests
inside the nested loop (O(n) per check). It is only ever membership-tested,
so switching it to a set (O(1)) leaves output unchanged.
- get_consolidated_object_detections: area(current_box) was recomputed on
every inner-loop iteration though it is loop-invariant; hoist it to one
call per outer detection.
Both are bit-identical (verified against the previous implementations over
randomized inputs). Measured in the release image, get_cluster_candidates on
a frame of 30 detection boxes: 59.2 us -> 42.1 us (1.4x); the gain scales
with the number of boxes per frame.
Adds a partition-invariant test (every box index lands in exactly one
cluster).
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* perf(util): use monotonic clock and bounded deque in EventsPerSecond
EventsPerSecond is updated on every captured frame, every detection and
every processed frame across all cameras and detectors. The previous
implementation derived timestamps from datetime.now().timestamp() (wall
clock), so an NTP or manual clock adjustment could skew the rolling-window
expiry; it also stored timestamps in a list and expired them with
del self._timestamps[0] (O(n) per removal) plus a periodic slice-copy to
cap growth.
Switch to time.monotonic() for the interval math (correct by construction
and immune to wall-clock jumps) and a collections.deque(maxlen=...) so
expiry is O(1) (popleft) and retention is bounded automatically. This
mirrors the deque-based expiry already used in video/ffmpeg.py and
watchdog.py. Observable output is unchanged.
Adds frigate/test/test_builtin.py covering rate calculation, window
expiry and the memory bound.
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* test: drop test_timestamps_are_memory_bounded
It only asserted that deque(maxlen=) caps length, which is stdlib behavior
rather than something this change needs to verify.
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* add ptz presets and default role widgets
* language tweaks
* fix width in triggers view
* tweak iOS PWA message in notifications settings
* deprecate ui.date_style and ui.time_style
these have been unused since date/time formatting has been pushed to i18n
* add config migrator to remove date_style and time_style
* remove date_style and time_style from reference config
* fix camera list scrolling in state classification wizard on mobile
* resolve global record.export.hwaccel_args to fix phantom camera override
* auto-stop debug replay sessions after 12 hours
* docs tweaks
* add more tips to object classification docs
* tweak language
* Store hwaccel errors with timeout so it can retry
* Add error logs for Intel GPU stats
* add area
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* filter motion review by allowed cameras
* filter alertCameras by allowed cameras so the recent alerts query for restricted roles doesn't reference cameras they can't access
* skip data streams in chapter exports to avoid ffmpeg segfault
* formatting
* restrict debug replay UI entry points to admin users
* Adjust default iGPU name when it can't be found
* Fix when model tries to request an invalid camera
* Improve prompt
* add collapsible main nav items in settings
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* add review padding to explore debug replay api calls
* add semantic search model size widget
disables model_size select with n/a text when an embeddings genai provider is selected
* regenerate zone contours and per-zone filter masks on detect resolution change
* treat null as a clear sentinel in buildOverrides so nullable field edits don't snap back
* extract replay config sheet to new component
* add validation and messages for detect settings
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