Any way to disable api.github.com request in Frigate

[jokakilla]

Hi,
in version 0.11 when I restart the docker container it takes very long until frigate is fully up and running. From the logs it looks like this isn't because of mqtt or so.

I guess it is because in my environment frigate is running in a VLAN that has no internet access. To me it seems to wait until the attempt to api.github.com timesout before it's fully reachable.
[2022-09-27 22:55:44] urllib3.connectionpool DEBUG : Starting new HTTPS connection (1): api.github.com:443

It's not a big issue for me (so I didn't raise an issue) but maybe this can somehow be disabled?!

[NickM-27]

Not sure how that would affect Frigate being available, will have to look

It can't be disabled currently

[Sarah-Connelli]

Any reason why the connection to api.github.com happens?

[NickM-27]

It is added to the /stats and powers the HA update entity.

See https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate/blob/master/frigate/stats.py#L25
https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/update/

[jokakilla]

I could verify that frigate starts up very quickly as soon as internet access is granted. So it's indeed related to the request to api.gibhub.com.

Without internet access:

[2022-09-28 08:47:40] urllib3.connectionpool         DEBUG   : Starting new HTTPS connection (1): api.github.com:443
[2022-09-28 08:49:50] ws4py                          INFO    : Using epoll

With internet access:

[2022-09-28 08:46:28] urllib3.connectionpool         DEBUG   : Starting new HTTPS connection (1): api.github.com:443
[2022-09-28 08:46:28] urllib3.connectionpool         DEBUG   : https://api.github.com:443 "GET /repos/blakeblackshear/frigate/releases/latest HTTP/1.1" 200 3567
[2022-09-28 08:46:28] ws4py                          INFO    : Using epoll

[NickM-27]

Interesting, thanks for checking that.
#3969

[PrplHaz4]

It seems strange that this is a blocking call - is frigate dependent on it to function?

[NickM-27]

Like I said above it's just for a version check to add to stats and the home assistant update entity