iobroker.frigate
v3.0.0
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Adapter for Frigate
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ioBroker.frigate
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This adapter uses Sentry libraries to automatically report exceptions and code errors to the developers. For more details and for information on how to disable the error reporting, see Sentry-Plugin Documentation! Sentry reporting is used starting with js-controller 3.0.
frigate adapter for ioBroker
Adapter for Frigate NVR — an open-source, self-hosted video surveillance system with AI-powered object detection.
Documentation
Discussion and questions
https://forum.iobroker.net/topic/64928/frigate-adapter-für-iobroker
Changelog
3.0.0 (2026-05-16)
- (copilot) Adapter requires node.js >= 22 now
- (copilot) Added re-streaming support for live video feeds (experimental)
- (copilot) Added support for license plate recognition events from Frigate
2.3.2 (2026-04-14)
- (@GermanBluefox) Added support of shm_size
2.3.1 (2026-03-29)
- (Eistee82) Added Frigate API authentication support for port 8971 (username/password login with JWT)
- (Eistee82) Automatic token refresh on 401 responses
2.3.0 (2026-03-29)
- (Eistee82) Many new features, improvements, and bug fixes in development for the next major release (see 2.2.2)
2.2.2 (2026-03-29)
New Features:
- (Eistee82) Added per-camera motion threshold control (
remote.motionThreshold) - (Eistee82) Added per-camera motion contour area control (
remote.motionContourArea) - (Eistee82) Added per-camera birdseye mode control (
remote.birdseyeMode) - (Eistee82) Added per-camera improve contrast toggle (
remote.improveContrast) - (Eistee82) Added Frigate notification control via MQTT (
notifications.enabled,notifications.suspend) - (Eistee82) Added automatic zone device creation from Frigate config
- (Eistee82) Audio details (dBFS, RMS, transcription, audio types) are now automatically available
- (Eistee82) Camera health status (detect/audio/record role status) is now automatically available
- (Eistee82) Classification states and review status are now automatically available
Modernization:
- (Eistee82) Migrated adapter to ESM (ECMAScript Modules) — requires js-controller >= 6.0.5
- (Eistee82) Upgraded aedes MQTT broker from 0.51 to 1.x
- (Eistee82) Replaced uuid dependency with built-in
crypto.randomUUID() - (Eistee82) Replaced json-bigint dependency with native
JSON.parse - (Eistee82) Refactored monolithic main.ts into focused modules
- (Eistee82) Include build directory in the repository for direct GitHub installation
Bug Fixes:
- (Eistee82) Fixed a critical bug: motion ON was always parsed as false due to operator precedence
- (Eistee82) Fixed snapshot notification missing image parameter
- (Eistee82) Fixed duplicate MQTT message processing in built-in broker mode
- (Eistee82) Fixed tmp directory cleanup deleting files from other programs
- (Eistee82) Converted synchronous filesystem operations to async
- (Eistee82) Debounced event history fetching to prevent excessive API calls
- (Eistee82) Improved error logging consistency across all catch blocks
License
MIT License
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