Lenovo M920q, Frigate, and Coral TPU USB. What's a recommended Frigate installation method?

[half canopy]

I migrated from my HA Green to a Lenovo Mini PC (Intel 6 Core i5-8500T, 16GB RAM, 256GB NVME SSD). I got everything up and running in Proxmox (HA OS VM) yesterday after a few hours of troubleshooting.

I know there’s a Frigate add-on for HA, but I’ve read it can be resource-heavy when running inside the same VM.

Question:
Should (or can) I run Frigate in an LXC container on Proxmox instead of using the add-on?
Or is it better to spin up a dedicated VM for Frigate?

Curious how others with similar setups (HA OS VM + Coral) have approached this. Thanks!

[vital cosmos]

my suggestion is to run it in a separate LXC.
NB: DO NOT use the frigate proxmox helper script. its outdated and unsupported.
my suggested way to install is use the docker LXC helper script then install frigate on there using compose.

you need to add resources to the LXC so its able to see the coral and also the graphics processor device so it can encode/decode. then adjust the compose file to pass these to the docker container.

I have this setup with a n150 based beelink mini pc

[half canopy]

Thank you! I think I'll go this route.

[vital cosmos]

awesome, good luck with it 🙂