From 4c8411fc5e4a6ce24f1586069762bcb939aaf456 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: MickLesk <47820557+MickLesk@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 10:46:33 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] frigate: stop the detector config from replacing the base
 config

The install wrote a config with mqtt, cameras, auth and detect, then the
detector branch wrote the file again instead of adding to it. Both
branches used a single redirect, so everything above them was discarded
and the result had neither mqtt nor cameras. frigate/config/config.py
declares both as Field() without a default, in 0.17.2 as well as in
0.18.0, so Frigate rejected the file and came up in safe mode:

  mqtt - Field required
  cameras - Field required

Move hwaccel_args into the base block, since both branches set it, and
append the detector and model sections instead of overwriting.

Checked by generating both branches and parsing the result: the OpenVINO
path yields auth, cameras, detect, detectors, ffmpeg, model, mqtt, the
CPU path the same without detectors, and the test camera survives in
both.
---
 install/frigate-install.sh | 10 ++++------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/install/frigate-install.sh b/install/frigate-install.sh
index 0fe49e681..3cdf4fe17 100644
--- a/install/frigate-install.sh
+++ b/install/frigate-install.sh
@@ -288,12 +288,12 @@ auth:
   enabled: false
 detect:
   enabled: false
+ffmpeg:
+  hwaccel_args: auto
 EOF
 
 if grep -q -o -m1 -E 'avx[^ ]*|sse4_2' /proc/cpuinfo && [[ -f /openvino-model/ssdlite_mobilenet_v2.xml ]] && [[ -f /openvino-model/coco_91cl_bkgr.txt ]]; then
-  cat <<EOF >/config/config.yml
-ffmpeg:
-  hwaccel_args: auto
+  cat <<EOF >>/config/config.yml
 detectors:
   detector01:
     type: openvino
@@ -307,9 +307,7 @@ model:
   labelmap_path: /openvino-model/coco_91cl_bkgr.txt
 EOF
 else
-  cat <<EOF >/config/config.yml
-ffmpeg:
-  hwaccel_args: auto
+  cat <<EOF >>/config/config.yml
 model:
   path: /models/cpu_model.tflite
 EOF