Add config option to disable version check

[leccelecce]

Some of us like to tightly control outbound network communication, particularly where IP cameras and related infrastructure are concerned.

I've noticed that by default Frigate does an outbound HTTP request to github to get the current release version. As far as I can tell this is only used in the stats API endpoint.

For those of us who would prefer to avoid outbound network traffic, this option allows disabling it, whereupon the version number will be "disabled" rather than "unknown". The config option defaults to enabled to preserve existing behaviour.

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[NickM-27]

As far as I can tell this is only used in the stats API endpoint.

It's used for the ha integration update entity to alert users when there's an update along with the changelog.

[leccelecce]

As far as I can tell this is only used in the stats API endpoint.

It's used for the ha integration update entity to alert users when there's an update along with the changelog.

Thanks for pointing out. If I add a note to the docs in the example full config to call out that disabling this will impact that, is that OK?

[felipecrs]

I second this, especially because it isn't much useful when Frigate is being run as an add-on (Supervisor already checks for updates and creates update entities for all add-ons).

[blakeblackshear]

Thanks for pointing out. If I add a note to the docs in the example full config to call out that disabling this will impact that, is that OK?

Please add that as a comment in the example configuration similar to how we have note/warning for other values.

[leccelecce]

Thanks for pointing out. If I add a note to the docs in the example full config to call out that disabling this will impact that, is that OK?

Please add that as a comment in the example configuration similar to how we have note/warning for other values.

Done, now looks like:

# Optional: Telemetry configuration
telemetry:
  # Optional: Enable the latest version outbound check (default: shown below)
  # NOTE: If you use the HomeAssistant integration, disabling this will prevent it from reporting new versions
  version_check: True