Frigate NVR Updates: Camera Profiles and API Enhancements
Frigate NVR received a major camera profiles feature allowing dynamic configuration switching, plus API improvements for camera control and go2rtc stream management. Seven pull requests were merged with significant UI and backend enhancements.
Duration: PT2M17S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from Frigate NVR Updates.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: Frigate NVR Updates
- Published: 2026-03-20T10:07:51Z
- Audio duration: PT2M17S
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Good morning, this is your Frigate NVR Updates briefing for March 20th, 2026.
The biggest development is hawkeye217's camera profile support system, merged yesterday with over 4,500 lines of code changes across 47 files. This feature allows users to create named configuration profiles that can dynamically override camera settings without requiring restarts. The system includes a new profiles…
NickM-27 merged API enhancements that add the ability to toggle camera features programmatically, refactoring the previous profile-specific endpoints into a more generic state management system. This also includes chat functionality integration.
hawkeye217 also delivered go2rtc streams integration into the settings UI, adding a dedicated configuration section for managing streaming endpoints with credential masking and FFmpeg utilities. The same author contributed UI improvements to the FFmpeg arguments widget, adding inherit and none options for better…
NickM-27 optimized the review summary system with improvements to AI integration, specifically enhancing Ollama schema handling and streamlining prompt generation across different AI providers including Gemini and llama.cpp.
Security was…
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