Frigate NVR Updates: Export Chapters and Birdseye Timing Fix

Five pull requests merged today, including chapter support for review items in exports, a critical timing bug fix for Birdseye idle heartbeat, and extensive internationalization updates across 205 translation files.

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  • Show: Frigate NVR Updates
  • Published: 2026-04-30T00:00:00Z
  • Audio duration: PT2M7S

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Good morning. This is your Frigate NVR update for April 30th, 2026.

Five pull requests merged today with significant functionality improvements. NickM-27 merged "Include chapters for review items in exports," addressing issue 3847 by adding chapter markers to exported video files containing review items. This enhances navigation within exported footage. The same contributor also…

A critical bug fix came from ryzendigo, resolving "Birdseye idle heartbeat never fires due to mismatched time sources." The issue stemmed from inconsistent time measurement methods - the heartbeat check used monotonic time while output timestamps used Unix epoch time. This fix ensures proper idle detection in…

Hawkeye217 contributed additional miscellaneous fixes, cleaning up workflow configurations and removing unused imports from the Birdseye output module. The changes also include minor UI corrections across React components.

The largest update was a massive internationalization effort from Hosted Weblate, spanning 205 files with over 4,600 additions. This includes complete Norwegian Bokmål translations, extensive updates to Chinese Simplified, and new Kannada language support. Spanish, Italian, Polish,…

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