Changelog

v0.4.2 - Feb 10 2025

Add support for notifications via Signal
Add support for notifications via Mattermost
Fix issue with alert-level filters where filters may prevent notifications on reviews with multiple object detections

Support for notification based on Alerts & Detections via Frigate Reviews
- ⚠️ Note: Reviews mode is now the default with this release
- To continue using events mode, please see the docs
Add initial support for a REST API
- Retrieve, edit, or reload configuration
- Enable/disable notifications & send test notifications
- App status/healthchecks
Added support for multiple notification endpoints per notification provider
- Includes ability to filter which endpoint is used based on event conditions
- For example: Two SMTP alert endpoints, each with different contacts. One group for high priority detections (person, car) & the other for anything else
Added support for specifying custom Pushover sounds
Added support for re-checking event details from Frigate after a delay
- Useful if waiting for a 3rd-party app to update sub_label
Added support for processing audio events & optionally dropping audio-only events
Camera names are now transformed to title case (ex. "side_door" becomes "Side Door")
Fixed issue with retry logic used for webhook notifications

Fixed issue where built-in alert templates were not being included in binary releases
Fixed issue where a notification may not be sent if previous event update from Frigate did not contain a snapshot
Fixed issue where Gotify snapshot was not using public_url if configured
Added from & ignoressl config items to smtp notifier
Added ability to send webhook notifications via HTTP GET requests
Added support for URL parameters with webhook notifications
Added option to only generate a single notification per Frigate event
Allow use of template variables within alert title config
New options to set specific log level & additional trace level logs for troubleshooting
Minor enhancements to config file validation

Additional filtering options for alerts:
Ability to modify snapshot when retrieved from Frigate: include bounding box / timestamp or crop snapshot
Allow use of template variables within HTTP headers sent to notification providers
- Ntfy action button can now be overrriden by defining a custom X-Actions header in the config file
- Templates can also now include information from environment variables

Fix misspelling for Ntfy
- Currently config will accept either nfty or ntfy, but in a future release nfty will be removed
- ⚠️ Note: If you are using nfty, please update your config to the correct spelling: ntfy
Fix issue where Ntfy action button would use local Frigate URL even if public_url was configured
Fix camera links for Frigate 0.14.0+
Add support for sending HTTP headers with Ntfy notifications
Added config file option to drop events that don't have a snapshot image
Move "No snapshot available" message into notification templates
Add support for disabling colored console logging via config options

Reworked & reduced logging, added debug option
Add ability to define custom notification templates
Add support for notifications via webhook
Add retry logic to startup check
- App will now retry up to 5 times, checking once every 30 seconds
- Config options now available to modify max attempts & retry interval
Enable concurrent notification processing
Fix issue where some event providers would fail if no snapshot was available via Frigate

Add support for notifications via Ntfy
Add ability to send additional HTTP headers to Frigate
Add new public_url config item for Frigate
- This will be used in notification links & should be configured if Frigate is accessible via the internet
Add startup check to verify Frigate API is accessible
Rework event notifications to be built from templates
Fix default interval for querying evens via web API
Fix issue where label score is 0% via web API event query

Allow changing default MQTT topic prefix via config
Added ability to filter notifications based on labels
- New option to allow only notifications with specified labels
- New option to deny notifications based on labels

Fixed issue with setting unzoned: drop under zone config, where alerts wouldn't be sent if event began outside a zone.
Fixed issue with correct timezone getting applied on container image
Added timeformat option for notifications, which allows custom date/time format
Minor updates to logging to ensure all event logs have an event ID attached

Updated config management
Improved config file validation
Fixed issue where HTTP requests would fail if only IP & port were specified in config
Fixed crash if Frigate has no event info & app couldn't pull snapshots
Added ability to filter notifications based on zones
- New config option to only allow notifications based on zone
- New config option to deny notifications based on zone
- New config option to allow or drop events outside of a designated zone

Fix SMTP issue where code was ignoring tls: false config flag
Fix issue where snapshots would only be sent to the first alerting method, if multiple were enabled
Update Debian image used for Docker image