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Explore and search

Explore lists every object Frigate tracked, one row each: a person who walked up the path, a car that pulled in, a dog in the garden. Where Review groups what happened on a camera into stretches of time, Explore is for finding one particular thing.

  1. Filters: cameras, kinds of object, and a date or hours.
  2. What the list shows: after a search, the words it matched. Clear goes back to every event.
  3. An event: its picture and how long it lasted, what it was, the camera, when, how sure Frigate was, and the zones it entered. Tap it for the details.
  4. Search: describe what you’re looking for in your own words. Only there when your server has Frigate’s semantic search turned on.

Filter

Section titled “Filter”
  • All cameras chooses one or more cameras, or a camera group.
  • All objects chooses one or more kinds: people, cars, dogs, whatever your cameras track.
  • The calendar chooses a day, or hours of it, like the one in Review. Here an event counts by when it started.

Reset filters clears all three.

Search in your own words

Section titled “Search in your own words”

When Frigate’s semantic search is on, a search field sits at the bottom of the list, above the tabs. Type what you’re looking for, such as person in a red jacket or white van, and the list shows the best matches, most relevant first, under a banner saying what they match. Clear goes back to the whole list. Frigate does the searching, on your server, from the pictures and the descriptions it has. A row marked matched description was found by what its description says rather than by its picture.

Find Similar, on an event’s details, does the same from a picture: it lists the events that look most like that one.

If your server doesn’t have semantic search turned on, the search field and Find Similar don’t appear. Frigate’s documentation explains how to turn it on, and what it needs.

An event’s details

Section titled “An event’s details”
  • The picture is the snapshot Frigate kept, or its thumbnail if there’s no snapshot.
  • View Clip opens the recording of the event. Share Clip and Share Snapshot export it: save it to Photos or send it.
  • Started, Ended or Still in progress, Duration, the Zones it entered, and where your server records them, Attributes, a License plate, who it was Recognised as, and an Estimated speed.
  • Server GenAI Description: what your server’s GenAI wrote about it, when it’s set up to. Not generated yet means it hasn’t got to this one.
  • Apple Intelligence Description: a description written on this iPhone. Needs iOS 27 See AI descriptions.

The arrows at the top right step to the next or previous event in the list.

Frigate+

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If your server uses Frigate+, an event shows Submit to Frigate+ with the question Was this a person? (or whatever it detected).

  • Yes sends the snapshot to Frigate+ as a correct detection.
  • No sends it as a false positive, to train the model not to make that mistake.

Either one sends the picture to Frigate+ straight away, a service outside your server, so answer only when you mean to. Once sent, the event says so.