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@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ These are the MQTT messages generated by Frigate. The default topic_prefix is `f
 
 Designed to be used as an availability topic with Home Assistant. Possible message are:
 "online": published when Frigate is running (on startup)
-"offline": published right before Frigate stops
+"offline": published after Frigate has stopped
 
 ### `frigate/restart`