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Frigate Security Cameras Troubleshooting

Find solutions for common Frigate security cameras problems. Step-by-step guides to get your devices working again.

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Browse 30 troubleshooting guides for Frigate security cameras. Each guide targets a specific problem — from initial setup and connectivity issues to performance drops and error codes — with step-by-step instructions, difficulty ratings, and estimated repair times. Select a guide below to start fixing your Frigate device.

Frigate is a local-first open-source NVR project built for private, high-control camera detection automation.

Troubleshooting Guides (30)

How to Fix Frigate Live View Slow or Not Loading

Device: Frigate Live View Performance (Frigate live view via go2rtc WebRTC/MSE paths)

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?

Device: Frigate Coral TPU Detection (Frigate with Coral USB/PCIe edge TPU)

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 47 views

How to Fix Frigate Camera Stream Failing with FFmpeg Exit Code

Device: Frigate FFmpeg Exit Issues (Frigate ingest pipeline failures)

Camera feed repeatedly drops due to FFmpeg process exits.

hard 20-30 minutes 40 views

How to Fix Frigate Clips Not Saving to Storage

Device: Frigate Clip Storage (Frigate recording and clip retention)

Detections occur but clips are missing from storage.

hard 20-30 minutes 35 views

Why Is Frigate Recording Audio Out of Sync with Video?

Device: Frigate Audio Sync Drift (Frigate A/V synchronization stability)

Recorded clips play with noticeable audio-video timing mismatch.

hard 20-30 minutes 33 views

How to Fix Frigate Recording Audio Out of Sync

Device: Frigate AV Sync (Frigate audio/video synchronization)

Recorded clips have audio lagging or leading video.

hard 20-30 minutes 33 views

How to Fix Frigate Detection Delays and Missed Objects

Device: Frigate Detection Tuning (Frigate with CPU/TPU detectors)

Object detection is late or misses obvious events.

hard 20-30 minutes 29 views

How to Fix Frigate No Frames Received With go2rtc

Device: Frigate Stream Ingestion (Frigate NVR with go2rtc camera streams)

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?

Device: Frigate Notification Pipeline (Frigate + Home Assistant/notification integrations)

Events record correctly but notification workflow does not fire.

medium 15-20 minutes 28 views

Why Is Frigate Recording Retention Deleting Clips Too Early?

Device: Frigate Retention Policy Issues (Frigate clip and recording retention behavior)

Recordings are removed sooner than expected retention settings.

medium 10-20 minutes 27 views

Why Does Frigate Camera Stream Freeze After Hours?

Device: Frigate Long-Run Stream Stability (Frigate + RTSP camera uptime)

Camera runs for hours then freezes until restart.

hard 20-30 minutes 27 views

How to Fix Frigate Snapshot Images Not Saving to Storage

Device: Frigate Snapshot Save Failures (Frigate snapshot file persistence)

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

medium 10-15 minutes 25 views

Why Is Frigate MQTT Event Feed Delayed?

Device: Frigate MQTT Delay (Frigate event broker latency)

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

medium 15-20 minutes 25 views

How to Fix Frigate Motion Masks Ignoring Actual Motion Areas

Device: Frigate Motion Mask Tuning (Frigate motion prefilter masking)

Motion masks suppress legitimate activity in intended detection areas.

medium 15-20 minutes 25 views

How to Fix Frigate Zone Filters Missing Expected Events

Device: Frigate Zone Filter Tuning (Frigate zone-based event filtering)

Expected detections are excluded by zone filtering rules.

hard 20-30 minutes 25 views

Why Is Frigate Person Detection Missing at Night?

Device: Frigate Night Detection (Frigate low-light object detection)

Nighttime person detections are missed while daytime works.

hard 20-30 minutes 25 views

How to Fix Frigate Camera Roles Misconfigured

Device: Frigate Camera Roles (Frigate detect/record/live role mapping)

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

Device: Frigate False Person Detections (Frigate classifier false positives)

Shadows are repeatedly classified as person events.

medium 15-20 minutes 24 views

How to Fix Frigate Birdseye View Not Updating in Real Time

Device: Frigate Birdseye Lag (Frigate Birdseye compositor update path)

Birdseye stream freezes or updates slowly compared with camera feeds.

hard 20-30 minutes 24 views

Why Is Frigate Event Retention Deleting Clips Too Early?

Device: Frigate Retention Policy (Frigate event and clip lifecycle)

Event clips are removed earlier than expected.

medium 15-20 minutes 24 views

How to Fix Frigate Object Snapshots Not Generating

Device: Frigate Snapshot Pipeline (Frigate object snapshot outputs)

Detections occur but snapshots are missing.

medium 15-20 minutes 24 views

How to Fix Frigate Birdseye Not Showing One Camera

Device: Frigate Birdseye Layout (Frigate Birdseye camera visibility)

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

easy 10-15 minutes 24 views

How to Fix Frigate RTSP Authentication Failures

Device: Frigate Camera Authentication (RTSP credentials and camera access)

Frigate cannot authenticate to camera RTSP streams.

medium 15-20 minutes 24 views

Why Is Frigate Detect FPS Dropping Over Time?

Device: Frigate Detect FPS Degradation (Frigate long-run detector performance)

Detection FPS starts healthy then degrades during runtime.

hard 20-30 minutes 22 views

How to Fix Frigate MQTT Events Not Publishing

Device: Frigate MQTT Pipeline (Frigate MQTT event delivery)

Frigate detections occur but MQTT event stream is missing.

medium 15-20 minutes 22 views

How to Fix Frigate Event Thumbnail Not Loading

Device: Frigate Event Thumbnails (Frigate UI event preview rendering)

Event list shows entries but thumbnails fail to render.

easy 10-15 minutes 20 views

Why Is Frigate Audio Not Working in Live View?

Device: Frigate Live Audio (Frigate live stream audio path)

Live view video works but audio is missing.

medium 15-20 minutes 19 views

How to Fix Frigate Recording Gaps During High Motion

Device: Frigate High-Motion Recording (Frigate continuous/event 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

Device: Frigate Browser Playback Issues (Frigate web clip playback compatibility)

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

Device: Frigate Performance Regression (Frigate NVR resource optimization)

CPU spikes after configuration edits and system becomes unstable.

hard 20-30 minutes 17 views