Settings at a glance
The Settings tab is arranged by who a change affects. The first section is about your server, and a couple of its rows change things for everyone who uses it. Everything below it changes this iPhone only.
- Server: the server you’re looking at. With several servers, the section takes the server’s name, and the server button at the top left picks which one.
- Notifications on This iPhone: which alerts reach this iPhone, and how they look and sound.
- Live Activities: which cameras’ alerts stay on the Lock Screen while they’re happening.
- Playback: how much of the recording to show before a review begins.
- Appearance: dark, light, or following the iPhone.
- Automation: Siri, Shortcuts, Focus and Control Center.
- Help & Troubleshooting: what has arrived, what’s wrong, and how to ask for help.
Server
Section titled “Server”| Row | What it’s for | Affects | Read more |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connection | The server’s addresses at home and away, its sign-in, custom headers, a client certificate, and a connection test. Its subtitle says who you’re signed in as. | This iPhone Synced with iCloud | Connect your server |
| Server Status | Health, detection speed, logs and restart. Its subtitle says whether the server is running. | Restart: everyone Needs an administrator | Server status |
| Server Notification Setup | Checks the server and this iPhone, and fixes what stops alerts arriving. | The server Needs an administrator | Set up alerts |
| Server-Wide Notifications | Each camera’s notification switch on the server, for every account and device. | Everyone Needs an administrator | Turn a camera’s alerts off for everyone |
| iCloud Sync | What follows you to your other devices, and the switch to stop it. | This iPhone | iCloud Sync |
| Add another server | A second NVR: the cabin, a relative’s house. | This iPhone | More than one server |
| Set up this iPhone again | The welcome walkthrough, from the beginning. | This iPhone | Connect your server |
Notifications on This iPhone
Section titled “Notifications on This iPhone”Nothing in this section changes the server, or what anyone else gets. This iPhone only
| Row | What it’s for | Read more |
|---|---|---|
| Notification Filters | Which alerts reach this iPhone, and how loudly: Home, Away, Sleep, quiet hours, snoozes, and what was held back. Its subtitle names the filter in force. | Notification filters |
| Device Notification Settings | How alerts look and sound: Break through Focus, the alert sound, the picture and video, descriptions, wording and hidden labels. | Pictures, video and sound |
Everything else
Section titled “Everything else”| Row | What it’s for | Read more |
|---|---|---|
| Live Activities | Which cameras’ alerts start a Live Activity, and a preview. | Live Activities |
| Playback | Start reviews early: how many seconds of the recording to show before a review begins, from none to ten, two to begin with. Its subtitle says how many. | Playback |
| Appearance | Dark (the default), Light, or Automatic to follow the iPhone. | — |
| Shortcuts & Automation | A tour of Siri, the Shortcuts actions, Focus and Control Center, with a button to open Shortcuts. | Siri and Shortcuts |
| Notification Activity | Every alert that has actually arrived on this iPhone, newest first, and what happened to it. | Alerts don’t arrive |
| Diagnostics | Notification registration, certificates, logs, the live video decoder, and starting over. | Alerts don’t arrive |
| Help & Support | Ask on GitHub or by email, and send your logs. | Getting help |
| Rate Fregata Mobile | Opens the App Store on Write a Review. Separately, after a week of regular use, the app may ask for a rating itself, with Apple’s own prompt and at most once per version. It asks only after you close a video, never while one is playing or when you’ve come from an alert. | — |
| Version | The app’s version and build, worth including when you ask for help. | — |
Playback
Section titled “Playback”Opening a review starts its recording a little before the review begins, so you see what led up to it. Playback has one setting so far, Start reviews early, which sets how much: any whole number of seconds from 0 to 10, and 2 until you change it. It applies however you open a review: from the Review tab, by tapping its notification or Live Activity, from a widget or Siri, from Recent Alerts, from an event in Explore, or from the list and the ⏮ and ⏭ buttons on the timeline. It’s this iPhone’s alone, and isn’t synced.
It doesn’t change the video attached to a notification, which starts on the moment of the alert.
Recordings kept only for events start a few seconds before each one, five by default in Frigate
(pre_capture), so on older footage a longer run-up may start at the first recorded frame.
Appearance
Section titled “Appearance”Fregata Mobile is dark to begin with: a dark app is easier to read at night, which is when cameras matter most. Appearance switches it to Light, or to Automatic to follow your iPhone’s own setting. It’s this iPhone’s alone, and isn’t synced.