Frigate, Unraid, and Coral M.2 | Home Assistant | Page 1

lilac tinsel Mar 15, 2025, 12:40 AM

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Having some issues getting this to work. I got Frigate to run on Unraid just fine using my Intel Quicksync GPU. I got a M.2 Coral in today and got that installed. Drivers are installed and it appears Unraid is reading it fine. But when I configure Frigate, it just doesn't like it and seems to be stuck in a boot cycle. Here are some snips from the logs and my config.yaml

strange citrus Mar 15, 2025, 12:47 AM

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lilac tinsel Having some issues getting this to work. I got Frigate to run on Unraid just fi...

does /dev/apex_0 exist actually in unraid? maybe it mounted the tpu somewhere else for some reason

lilac tinsel Mar 15, 2025, 1:06 AM

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Ya, I see the /dev/apex_0 and was thinking maybe the tpu is somewhere else, but i have no idea where or how to look. I'm not very savey when it comes to Linux, still learning.

strange citrus Mar 15, 2025, 1:11 AM

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what version of frigate is installed?

lilac tinsel Mar 15, 2025, 1:14 AM

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I have it uninstalled, but it's the :stable version

strange citrus Mar 15, 2025, 1:16 AM

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are you installing it manually or via some kind of unraid auto install?
sometimes the "app stores" on stuff dont actually install the latest.
i am not an unraid user so dont really know what the situation is.

it does some more of an unraid issue in general though

lilac tinsel Mar 15, 2025, 1:17 AM

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it does an auto install. should I try a manual install? I don't think I have ever done that lol.

strange citrus Mar 15, 2025, 1:23 AM

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can just check the actual version number of frigate it installs

lilac tinsel Mar 15, 2025, 1:36 AM

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System
0.15.0-cea210d

strange citrus Mar 15, 2025, 1:38 AM

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yeah that is the latest, i suspect its a unraid container configuration issue somewhere

lilac tinsel Mar 15, 2025, 1:42 AM

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OMG... I'm a fricken idiot!!! LOL I think I have it fixed haha

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I would guess it's using coral for the detection right?

strange citrus Mar 15, 2025, 1:44 AM

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yup it looks like its working

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do you know what the solution was? or did it just start working magically?

lilac tinsel Mar 15, 2025, 1:45 AM

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Forgot to remove this from the yaml.

model:
width: 300
height: 300
input_tensor: nhwc
input_pixel_format: bgr
path: /openvino-model/ssdlite_mobilenet_v2.xml
labelmap_path: /openvino-model/coco_91cl_bkgr.txt

Guessing this would cause the detector to still try and use openvino.

strange citrus Mar 15, 2025, 1:45 AM

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yeah entirily possible

lilac tinsel Mar 15, 2025, 1:46 AM

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I'm confidant that was the issue. I removed that and reloaded and it is working like a champ now. And it is getting a work out with the storm rolling through.

strange citrus Mar 15, 2025, 1:47 AM

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nice

lilac tinsel Mar 15, 2025, 1:47 AM

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Thanks for the help.

strange citrus Mar 15, 2025, 1:47 AM

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the frigate config file is something i am still learning myself. its a bit confusing but i guess as you mess with it more you will learn

lilac tinsel Mar 15, 2025, 1:48 AM

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I agree. I was using Agent-DVR but was really clunkly, I like how smooth frigate works. plus i dont have to have a different ai running in the background.

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One thing I am noticing and not sure if there is anything I can do, but i see the cpu usage is hovering around 15% and my GPU is at 1%. Any way to get the GPU to do more?

strange citrus Mar 15, 2025, 1:52 AM

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the status is probably showing the cpu status of the entire system not something relative to the container

lilac tinsel Mar 15, 2025, 1:53 AM

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Ohh. that does make sense since this is also on the same server running my Plex server and my son is watching some Ghost Busters.

strange citrus Mar 15, 2025, 1:53 AM

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yeah your system is probably doing other stuff

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the gpu likely wont get too busy with the transcoding its doing because its pretty efficient. cpu struggles to do that cant of thing though

lilac tinsel Mar 15, 2025, 1:55 AM

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True, I know I have the GPU set to do the transcoding for Plex. I need to offload my DNS server from unraid though. I love my server. 😄

strange citrus Mar 15, 2025, 1:56 AM

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if you love having a server then learn to do it properly instead of using unraid... 😛

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half joking, if it works for you then thats fantastic but i dislike soo many things about it

lilac tinsel Mar 15, 2025, 1:59 AM

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LOL. no worries. to each their own haha... It works for what I use it for and has a good community behind it.

On a side note, when i rebooted, I saw the other nvr and ai docker started so that is where the extra usage was going haha.

strange citrus Mar 15, 2025, 2:00 AM

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for sure, if it works for you then that is what matters

lilac tinsel Mar 15, 2025, 2:02 AM

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What do you use if you don't mind me asking?

strange citrus Mar 15, 2025, 2:04 AM

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my bare metal OS is proxmox as a hypervisor then i have various OS's installed on top of that

lilac tinsel Mar 15, 2025, 2:05 AM

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I need to look into proxmox. I hear a lot about that.

strange citrus Mar 15, 2025, 2:06 AM

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yeah its really nice. if you want another system and you have the resouces its super easy to just spin up

lilac tinsel Mar 15, 2025, 2:06 AM

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Kind of sounds like Unraid's ability to spin up VMs. lol Home Assistant is running as a VM on it.

getting off, thanks again for the help tonight.

strange citrus Mar 15, 2025, 2:07 AM

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lilac tinsel Kind of sounds like Unraid's ability to spin up VMs. lol Home Assistant is runn...

sort of, but better 🙂

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