Development Roadmap
Where WAMF is today, and where it is heading.
WAMF is under active development. This roadmap reflects the current
direction of the project, but priorities may evolve through real-world
testing, feedback and practical use.
Released
v0.4.0 – Platform Stabilisation
Released on 18 September 2026, WAMF v0.4.0 establishes a stable,
deployable foundation for self-hosted wildlife monitoring using Frigate
as the detection source.
- Stable Frigate event processing over MQTT
- AI bird species identification
- Observation storage using SQLite
- Snapshot and clip archiving
- Media retention tools
- Recent detections and activity views
- Species metadata and reference information
- System health and administration tools
- First-run configuration and administrator bootstrap
- Reliable restart and shutdown handling
- Official Docker deployment through GHCR
- Validated compatibility with Frigate 0.17.2 and 0.18.0
- Deployment and portability testing across multiple hosts
- Public website and documentation
Next Release
v0.4.5 – Usability and Integration
v0.4.5 will build on the stable v0.4.0 foundation with a focus on
configuration, usability, integrations and clearer WAMF terminology
before the larger architectural work planned for v0.5.
- Form-based configuration and setup improvements
- Improved configuration validation and service testing
- Camera configuration and management improvements
- Administration navigation and interface polish
- Search and favourites
- Improved recent detections
- Additional WAMF Core health information
- Improved activity, species and observation insights
- Archive and media browsing improvements
- Improved logging and diagnostics
- Integration configuration improvements
- WAMF Core terminology introduced across the project
- Review of Docker user and file ownership handling
Planned
v0.5 – WAMF Core and Scouts
v0.5 is planned to begin WAMF's move beyond a Frigate-only architecture.
WAMF Core will receive wildlife observations from Scouts through a shared
event contract, allowing different capture and detection systems to feed
the same wildlife monitoring platform.
- Detection source abstraction layer
- Shared WAMF event contract
- Frigate as a Scout-compatible detection source
- Direct RTSP detection paths
- Support for alternative inference hardware and backends
- Foundations for Raspberry Pi and AI camera Scouts
- Scout health and configuration
- Improved and versioned external API
- Webhook and integration support
- Review of the WAMF Core web and API architecture
- Foundations for distributed wildlife monitoring
Future
Beyond v0.5 – Distributed Wildlife Monitoring
Later releases can build on the WAMF Core and Scout architecture to
support increasingly varied wildlife monitoring hardware and distributed
deployments.
- Additional wildlife categories beyond birds
- Additional classification models
- More Scout hardware and detection backends
- Distributed and remote capture devices
- Improved multi-camera and multi-Scout workflows
- Richer statistics and long-term activity trends
- Expanded external integrations
- Community-driven extensions
