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How to Fix Frigate Live View Slow or Not Loading

Security Cameras • Frigate Live View Performance

Frigate live view loads slowly, stutters, or fails completely while recordings may still work. This is commonly caused by keyframe settings, codec/browser incompatibility, constrained hardware decode paths, or overloaded stream role design.

hard 20-30 minutes 55 views

Why Is Frigate Coral TPU Not Detected After Update?

Security Cameras • Frigate Coral TPU Detection

After updating Frigate or host environment, Coral TPU detection fails and object detection stops. The service may run, but inference does not process. Typical causes include device permission changes, container mapping issues, host driver conflicts, or update-level compatibility shifts.

hard 20-30 minutes 49 views

How to Fix Frigate Camera Stream Failing with FFmpeg Exit Code

Security Cameras • Frigate FFmpeg Exit Issues

Camera feed repeatedly drops due to FFmpeg process exits.

hard 20-30 minutes 40 views

How to Fix Frigate Clips Not Saving to Storage

Security Cameras • Frigate Clip Storage

Detections occur but clips are missing from storage.

hard 20-30 minutes 35 views

How to Fix Frigate Recording Audio Out of Sync

Security Cameras • Frigate AV Sync

Recorded clips have audio lagging or leading video.

hard 20-30 minutes 34 views

Why Is Frigate Recording Audio Out of Sync with Video?

Security Cameras • Frigate Audio Sync Drift

Recorded clips play with noticeable audio-video timing mismatch.

hard 20-30 minutes 34 views

How to Fix Frigate Detection Delays and Missed Objects

Security Cameras • Frigate Detection Tuning

Object detection is late or misses obvious events.

hard 20-30 minutes 30 views

How to Fix Frigate No Frames Received With go2rtc

Security Cameras • Frigate Stream Ingestion

Frigate shows No frames received for one or more cameras while go2rtc is enabled. Recording and live view may fail intermittently. This is often caused by incorrect stream role mapping, unstable camera RTSP paths, keyframe settings, or go2rtc stream definition issues.

hard 20-30 minutes 29 views

Why Is Frigate Recording But Not Sending Notifications?

Security Cameras • Frigate Notification Pipeline

Events record correctly but notification workflow does not fire.

medium 15-20 minutes 28 views

Why Is Frigate Recording Retention Deleting Clips Too Early?

Security Cameras • Frigate Retention Policy Issues

Recordings are removed sooner than expected retention settings.

medium 10-20 minutes 28 views

Why Does Frigate Camera Stream Freeze After Hours?

Security Cameras • Frigate Long-Run Stream Stability

Camera runs for hours then freezes until restart.

hard 20-30 minutes 27 views

How to Fix Frigate Motion Masks Ignoring Actual Motion Areas

Security Cameras • Frigate Motion Mask Tuning

Motion masks suppress legitimate activity in intended detection areas.

medium 15-20 minutes 26 views

How to Fix Frigate Snapshot Images Not Saving to Storage

Security Cameras • Frigate Snapshot Save Failures

Detections occur but snapshot images are missing from expected storage path.

medium 10-15 minutes 26 views

How to Fix Frigate Birdseye Not Showing One Camera

Security Cameras • Frigate Birdseye Layout

A camera works normally but does not appear in Birdseye view.

easy 10-15 minutes 25 views

How to Fix Frigate Birdseye View Not Updating in Real Time

Security Cameras • Frigate Birdseye Lag

Birdseye stream freezes or updates slowly compared with camera feeds.

hard 20-30 minutes 25 views

How to Fix Frigate Camera Roles Misconfigured

Security Cameras • Frigate Camera Roles

Wrong stream assigned to detect/record/live causes instability or poor quality.

hard 20-30 minutes 25 views

How to Fix Frigate Detecting Shadows as People

Security Cameras • Frigate False Person Detections

Shadows are repeatedly classified as person events.

medium 15-20 minutes 25 views

How to Fix Frigate Zone Filters Missing Expected Events

Security Cameras • Frigate Zone Filter Tuning

Expected detections are excluded by zone filtering rules.

hard 20-30 minutes 25 views

Why Is Frigate Event Retention Deleting Clips Too Early?

Security Cameras • Frigate Retention Policy

Event clips are removed earlier than expected.

medium 15-20 minutes 25 views

Why Is Frigate MQTT Event Feed Delayed?

Security Cameras • Frigate MQTT Delay

Object events appear in UI quickly but MQTT consumers receive them late.

medium 15-20 minutes 25 views

Why Is Frigate Person Detection Missing at Night?

Security Cameras • Frigate Night Detection

Nighttime person detections are missed while daytime works.

hard 20-30 minutes 25 views

How to Fix Frigate Object Snapshots Not Generating

Security Cameras • Frigate Snapshot Pipeline

Detections occur but snapshots are missing.

medium 15-20 minutes 24 views

How to Fix Frigate RTSP Authentication Failures

Security Cameras • Frigate Camera Authentication

Frigate cannot authenticate to camera RTSP streams.

medium 15-20 minutes 24 views

How to Fix Frigate MQTT Events Not Publishing

Security Cameras • Frigate MQTT Pipeline

Frigate detections occur but MQTT event stream is missing.

medium 15-20 minutes 23 views

Why Is Frigate Detect FPS Dropping Over Time?

Security Cameras • Frigate Detect FPS Degradation

Detection FPS starts healthy then degrades during runtime.

hard 20-30 minutes 23 views

How to Fix Frigate Event Thumbnail Not Loading

Security Cameras • Frigate Event Thumbnails

Event list shows entries but thumbnails fail to render.

easy 10-15 minutes 20 views

Why Is Frigate Audio Not Working in Live View?

Security Cameras • Frigate Live Audio

Live view video works but audio is missing.

medium 15-20 minutes 19 views

How to Fix Frigate Recording Gaps During High Motion

Security Cameras • Frigate High-Motion Recording

Recording timeline has gaps when scene activity spikes.

hard 20-30 minutes 18 views

How to Fix Frigate Event Clips Not Playing in Browser

Security Cameras • Frigate Browser Playback Issues

Event clips exist but fail to play in web UI/browser clients.

medium 15-20 minutes 17 views

How to Fix Frigate High CPU Usage After Config Changes

Security Cameras • Frigate Performance Regression

CPU spikes after configuration edits and system becomes unstable.

hard 20-30 minutes 17 views