Lumen for Frigate
Smart NVR Companion App
Free · In‑App Purchases
Lumen for Frigate is the beautifully crafted native companion app for Frigate NVR — the leading open-source, AI-powered network video recorder. Monitor your security cameras, review intelligent detections, and play back recordings, all from a stunning dark glassmorphism interface designed for iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
LIVE CAMERA VIEWS
Stream all your Frigate cameras in real time. Switch between single and multi-camera layouts with smooth, responsive controls. See what matters at a glance from anywhere on your network.
AI-POWERED EVENT DETECTION
Browse events detected by Frigate's advanced AI models — people, vehicles, animals, packages, and more. View snapshots, thumbnails, and clips for every detection. Filter and search events by camera, label, zone, or time range to find exactly what you need.
RECORDING PLAYBACK
Scrub through continuous recordings with an intuitive timeline. Jump to any moment, review footage around detected events, and play back multi-camera views in sync for complete situational awareness.
FACE RECOGNITION
Review and manage recognized faces detected by Frigate. Quickly identify familiar visitors and track appearances across your cameras.
SEMANTIC SEARCH
Go beyond simple filters — use natural language to search your event history. Describe what you are looking for and let AI find matching detections across all your cameras.
SYSTEM MONITORING
Keep tabs on your Frigate server's health. View CPU and GPU usage, storage capacity, detector inference speed, and camera performance metrics at a glance.
AUTO-DISCOVERY
Lumen automatically finds Frigate servers on your local network and supports Tailscale connections, so setup takes just seconds.
DESIGNED FOR APPLE
Built with SwiftUI from the ground up. Lumen feels right at home on iOS and macOS with smooth animations, native controls, and full support for Dynamic Type, Dark Mode, and multitasking.
FREE TO START, PRO TO UNLOCK MORE
Get started for free with up to 4 cameras and 25 recent events. Upgrade to Lumen Pro to unlock unlimited cameras, advanced event filtering, recording timeline, system stats, face recognition, macOS support, and everything that comes next.
Lumen Pro Subscription:
- Monthly: $1.99/month
- Yearly: $9.99/year
- Lifetime: $29.99 (one-time purchase)
Start with a 7-day free trial of all Pro features.
Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscriptions in your App Store account settings.
Terms of Use: https://lumenforfrigate.app/terms
Privacy Policy: https://lumenforfrigate.app/privacy
Frigate NVR is required. Lumen is an independent third-party client and is not affiliated with the Frigate project.
more Looks good but cannot get authentication to work.
Looks good but cannot get authentication to work.
Useful app but still has the feel of an early beta. Still I paid for it as I think it shows potential and want to support the dev. Will reevaluate as it grows.
Useful app but still has the feel of an early beta. Still I paid for it as I think it shows potential and want to support the dev. Will reevaluate as it grows.
Even with the right authentication the server cannot be connected but instead continues to asks for authentication even though the test connection was successfully
Even with the right authentication the server cannot be connected but instead continues to asks for authentication even though the test connection was successfully
This update brings live audio to HD streaming, plus a batch of reliability fixes:
• Live audio on HD camera view — hear your camera streams, muted by default so nothing surprises you
• Fixed a crash when opening HD live view on some networks
• Fixed reverse-proxy setups getting bounced back to login
• Smoother scrubbing through recorded clips (no more black frames)
• AI descriptions badge now reflects your Frigate GenAI setup correctly
• visionOS: camera panels now work with VoiceOver and respect Reduce Motion
• Settings now sync properly across your devices via iCloud
• Various reliability and stability improvements
1.16.2 Jul 26
A redesigned way to review what happened — and far fewer notifications you didn't want.
• Redesigned Review: a premium, single-column feed with large, glanceable cards makes catching up on the day calm instead of cluttered.
• Clearer navigation: Cameras, Review, Events and Settings each have their place — live monitoring, triage history, and deep search no longer overlap.
• "Silence me when I'm home": one switch turns on presence detection and mutes alerts while you're home — no more half-configured muting.
• "Ignore until I'm home": kids at home while you're out? Snooze a camera straight from the notification — it clears itself the moment you return. Critical alerts always come through.
• Redesigned camera view: the live image is now the hero, with a glanceable "all quiet / alert" status and recent events — controls tucked away instead of cluttered panels.
• Camera timeline: scrub back through a camera's recording right from full screen.
• Synced multi-camera playback now streams instantly instead of waiting on long downloads.
• Fixed: event thumbnails and wide cameras now fill their cards correctly.
• New: turn a whole camera fully on or off from the app to save CPU and heat (Frigate 0.15+).
• New: a clearer HD toggle to watch the full-resolution stream full screen.
• Fixed: a rare crash when saving a recording to Photos on iOS 26.
Thanks for all your feedback — keep it coming from Settings.
1.16.0 Jul 13
A redesigned way to review what happened — and far fewer notifications you didn't want.
• Redesigned Review: a premium, single-column feed with large, glanceable cards makes catching up on the day calm instead of cluttered.
• Clearer navigation: Cameras, Review, Events and Settings each have their place — live monitoring, triage history, and deep search no longer overlap.
• "Silence me when I'm home": one switch turns on presence detection and mutes alerts while you're home — no more half-configured muting.
• "Ignore until I'm home": kids at home while you're out? Snooze a camera straight from the notification — it clears itself the moment you return. Critical alerts always come through.
• Redesigned camera view: the live image is now the hero, with a glanceable "all quiet / alert" status and recent events — controls tucked away instead of cluttered panels.
• Camera timeline: scrub back through a camera's recording right from full screen.
• Synced multi-camera playback now streams instantly instead of waiting on long downloads.
• Fixed: event thumbnails and wide cameras now fill their cards correctly.
Thanks for all your feedback — keep it coming from Settings.
1.15.0 Jun 15
This update makes notifications smarter and quieter, and fixes several reported issues — including a crash.
• Notifications now respect your Home profile and per-camera mutes even when Lumen is closed (fixes a widely reported "still notifies for everything" bug).
• No more duplicate alerts for the same detection.
• New live presence status: see at a glance whether Lumen considers you home (GPS + Wi-Fi), so at-home muting is one tap away.
• No missed detections after a connection drop — events that fired during an outage are caught up on reconnect.
• Live Activity polished: detections on the Lock Screen now end cleanly, and you can turn the Live Activity off entirely.
• Apple Bridge now walks you straight into pairing your Mac or Apple TV — no more dead ends.
• Add a second server address (LAN + remote) — Lumen automatically uses the fastest reachable one.
• Fixed a crash some users reported, plus broad stability improvements.
• The notification settings now speak French throughout.
Thanks for all your feedback — keep it coming from Settings.
1.14.5 Jun 10
This update fixes several reported issues — including a crash — and makes recording playback far more reliable:
• Fixed a crash several users reported (related to background event checks) plus general stability improvements.
• More reliable event clip playback on self-hosted Frigate servers (HTTP, Tailscale, reverse proxy) — recordings now load correctly.
• Fixed: opening a clip from the Clips tab no longer bounces you back to Home.
• Timeline: the calendar and grid buttons now work, and playback is more tolerant on slow connections.
• Improved confidence filtering to cut down on false alerts (for example a pet detected as a person).
• Redesigned, clearer full-screen and playback controls.
Thanks for all your feedback — keep it coming from Settings.
1.14.4 Jun 3
This update fixes several reported issues and makes recording playback far more reliable:
• More reliable event clip playback on self-hosted Frigate servers (HTTP, Tailscale, reverse proxy) — recordings now load correctly.
• Fixed: opening a clip from the Clips tab no longer bounces you back to Home.
• Timeline: the calendar and grid buttons now work, and playback is more tolerant on slow connections.
• Improved confidence filtering to cut down on false alerts (for example a pet detected as a person).
• Redesigned, clearer full-screen and playback controls.
Thanks for all your feedback — keep it coming from Settings.
1.14.3 Jun 1
• Fixed geofencing not working when app is in background or killed — notifications now correctly suppress when you're home
• Fixed iCloud config restore prompt appearing repeatedly after reinstalling the app
• Subscription status now syncs automatically after restoring from iCloud backup
• Critical alert notifications now require 85% confidence (vs 50% standard) to prevent false positives at night
• Diagnostic reports now capture 3 hours of logs (vs 1 hour) for better troubleshooting
• Fixed a background crash that could occur during event checks
• Live view no longer freezes when opening a camera behind an HTTPS / reverse proxy
• Event videos now play on servers behind an authenticated reverse proxy
• Stability improvements
1.14.2 May 28
• Fixed a background crash that could occur during event checks
• Live view no longer freezes when opening a camera behind an HTTPS / reverse proxy — it now connects reliably (no freeze, no endless spinner)
• Event videos now play on servers behind an authenticated reverse proxy (fixes "clip download was empty or truncated")
• Web Settings: pair a browser from Settings → Sync to configure Lumen from any browser — your settings now load there automatically
• Stability improvements
1.14.1 May 27
• More reliable push notifications (delivery fix + late-alert handling)
• Tapping a notification now opens the relevant camera (snapshot or live)
• Clearer presence settings (app-only mute vs. changing your Frigate server) with confirmation
• Fixed connecting to servers behind Cloudflare Access / reverse proxies
• More reliable daily detection counter
• Accessibility & localization improvements
• Stability fixes (notifications, navigation, and more)
1.14.0 May 26
• Fix: WebSocket reconnect storm — when a proxy/NAT idle-closed the connection after ~10 s, Lumen was reconnecting every second instead of ramping the backoff. Now ramps 1 → 2 → 4 → 8 → 16 → 30 s for short-lived sessions.
• New: counter cadence — discreet gear next to the Detections / Persons / Vehicles row lets you choose Today (default), This week, Last 6 hours, Last 24 hours, or All time. Stats tab keeps the all-time totals.
• Fix: FrigateClient now correctly reads the version from Frigate 0.15+ (was JSON-decoding a plaintext response).
1.13.4 May 7
• Fix: Deleting an alert rule no longer crashes the app.
• Fix: Smart Assistant times out cleanly instead of hanging.
• New: automatic crash detection — if Lumen ever crashes, the app pre-fills a bug report on the next launch so support can fix it faster.
• New (Pro): Bypass / Quiet rules — silence notifications for chosen scenarios (e.g. when a known person is home, or "while my dog is in the yard").
• New (Pro Beta): Two-way audio talk-back — speak through compatible cameras (enable in Settings → Streaming).
• Improved stability for live streams and notification delivery.
1.13.3 May 7
Critical fix — the Smart Assistant no longer crashes the app on devices where Apple Intelligence isn't available or hasn't finished downloading.
Apple Bridge mode now respects every notification rule — alert rules, cooldowns, label filters, profiles, geofencing, snoozes and quiet hours all apply to events delivered via iCloud, exactly like in Instant Push mode.
New camera filter menu — long-press a camera in the grid to mute notifications, restrict to a single label (e.g. "Only person"), or ignore a specific label, all without leaving the Cameras tab.
Cleaner Notifications hub — the legacy "Notification Rules" entry has been removed; everything lives under Alert Rules now.
1.13.2 May 5
Smoother onboarding — if you've used Lumen before, restoring your iCloud backup is now offered right at the very first screen.
Notification setup polish — you can now go back from the Instant Push setup screen to switch delivery methods (Apple Bridge, Live-only, etc.).
Settings UI fixes — removed an overlap that occasionally hid the "Active" badge on the Push row.
1.13.1 May 1
Custom Alert Rules — build OR-of-AND condition trees with 19 condition kinds and Pro outputs (suppress, critical, target).
Apple Shortcuts deepened — Snooze, Set profile, Activate rule, plus a queryable picker for any new Shortcut.
Web dashboard at lumen-settings.lorislab.fr — edit rules, profiles and per-camera settings from any browser, iCloud-synced.
Auto-fallback for HEVC cameras — clips that AVPlayer can't decode now retry via go2rtc transcoding.
Smarter bug reports — the on-device AI now actually asks scope/timing questions before generating the report.
1.13.0 May 1
• New push delivery picker — choose Worker mode (easiest, recommended) or Direct relay (self-hosted APNs).
• Late/missed push fix: stale Frigate events are now dropped before reaching your device, and the app shows "· Xs ago" when APNs held a push while your device was asleep.
• Face Alerts (absence, unknown faces, daily digest) are opt-in — no surprise notifications after updating.
• Revamped setup guide with Docker Hub image, Mosquitto MQTT prerequisite, and copy-paste commands.
• Bug fixes and small UX polish across notification settings and push setup.
1.10.0 Apr 25
• Cloudflare Access: add multiple custom headers in server setup
• Fixed: CPU stat no longer pins at 100% on multi-core servers
• Fixed: custom headers now work on plain HTTP (not just HTTPS)
1.8.5 Apr 20
- Fixed authentication failing through reverse proxies (nginx, Caddy, etc.)
- Fixed login flow not including proxy credentials, causing silent auth failures
- Fixed connection test not verifying session cookie authentication
- Improved credential handling for complex passwords with special characters
1.8.4 Apr 9
Bug fixes and stability improvements: fixed connection state flicker on cold start, completed French and English (UK) localization, resolved a macOS build issue affecting the WebSocket client, and improved the disconnected/connecting UI on launch.
1.8.3 Apr 8
• Fixed clip playback showing QuickTime icon with audio only on some recordings
• Fixed HTTP 400 errors when playing clips from expired recordings
• Improved reverse proxy compatibility — clear error messages when Traefik, Nginx, or Caddy returns a login page or error instead of Frigate's API
• Added Cloudflare tunnel detection with guidance during connection setup
• Improved video download reliability across all playback views
• Added VPN network type detection in connection stats
1.8.1 Mar 30
Bug fixes and improvements:
- Fixed authentication behind reverse proxies (Caddy, Traefik, Nginx, HAProxy)
- Added Frigate 0.14+ cookie-based session auth support
- Fixed credentials being stripped on HTTP-to-HTTPS redirects
- New: Watch Recording button on event details — plays full footage around the detection
- New: Tappable reviews with recording playback
- Fixed server setup feedback (loading indicator, prevents duplicate servers)
- Fixed VPN connections — endpoints no longer filtered by WiFi SSID when on VPN
- Increased connection timeout for remote/VPN setups
1.8 Mar 30
• Import notification config from file on macOS (Settings > General > Import Config)
• Drag & drop JSON config files directly into the import editor
• iCloud Drive settings backup and restore
• Bug fixes and performance improvements
1.7 Mar 25
• Fixed: Notification profiles (Away) could override imported label filters, allowing unwanted object types through
• New: Offline camera detection — cameras with no video feed now show "Offline" with the last snapshot instead of displaying stale detections as live
• Fixed: Notifications from disconnected cameras are now suppressed across all delivery paths
• Improved: Config import now deactivates active profiles to prevent label conflicts
1.6 Mar 25
- Push notification filtering: your per-camera settings, quiet hours, profiles, and label filters now apply to server-side push notifications — both in foreground and background
- New Notification Service Extension for reliable background push filtering
- Bug fixes and stability improvements
1.5.2 Mar 20
- Fixed connection reliability for HTTP endpoints on macOS
- Improved auto-endpoint switching with raw TCP latency probing
- Bug fixes and stability improvements
1.5.1 Mar 19
What's New in 1.5:
• Smart Settings Assistant — On-device AI powered by Apple Intelligence summarizes your notification config, suggests improvements based on event patterns, and lets you configure settings in plain English. Just type "Only notify me for people on the front door" and it's done. (Requires Apple Intelligence)
• Server Config Insights — The assistant now understands your full Frigate server setup: detection FPS, recording retention, zones, tracked objects. Get a complete picture of what your server does alongside what the app overrides.
• Siri Integration — "Hey Siri, configure Lumen notifications" — describe changes naturally and Siri applies them with confirmation.
• Scoped Reset — Reset notification overrides, profiles, or filters individually with a new granular reset sheet. Includes 24-hour undo safety net.
• French Localization — 30+ new strings translated for complete French coverage.
• macOS Improvements — All new features available in the macOS sidebar settings.
1.5 Mar 17
This update brings live audio to HD streaming, plus a batch of reliability fixes:
• Live audio on HD camera view — hear your camera streams, muted by default so nothing surprises you
• Fixed a crash when opening HD live view on some networks
• Fixed reverse-proxy setups getting bounced back to login
• Smoother scrubbing through recorded clips (no more black frames)
• AI descriptions badge now reflects your Frigate GenAI setup correctly
• visionOS: camera panels now work with VoiceOver and respect Reduce Motion
• Settings now sync properly across your devices via iCloud
• Various reliability and stability improvements
more Version 1.16.2 Jul 26
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