[Support]: NVIDIA, Frigate, Home Assistant, Unraid - How to integrate NVIDIA and Frigate

[bocob5]

Describe the problem you are having

My setup:

• Unraid Version: 6.10.3
• Home Assistant 2022.7.5 running in VM Supervisor 2022.07.0 Operating System 8.2 Frontend 20220707.1 - latest
• Frigate NVR addon Current version: 2.3
• NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER

GOALS:

1. Use NVIDIA card for ffmpeg hardware acceleration
2. Use NVIDIA card for ffmpeg hardware acceleration and object detection

First I would like to get working ffmpeg hardware acceleration only. However, I could not find any instructions, guide how to get this setup working on Unraid. Do I need to use passthrough for NVIDIA PCIe card or there are other option. And how to use then NVIDIA on Frigate that runs on Home Assistant? I will appreciate if someone can give me some directions where to start.

Thanks

Version

Frigate 2.3 / version 0.9.4

Frigate config file

Current config does not use NVIDA accelerator yet

Relevant log output

No log output since setup is not running yet

FFprobe output from your camera

ffprobe rtsp://admin:[email protected]:554//h264Preview_01_sub
ffprobe version 4.4 Copyright (c) 2007-2021 the FFmpeg developers
  built with Apple clang version 12.0.0 (clang-1200.0.32.29)
  configuration: --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/ffmpeg/4.4_1 --enable-shared --enable-pthreads --enable-version3 --enable-avresample --cc=clang --host-cflags= --host-ldflags= --enable-ffplay --enable-gnutls --enable-gpl --enable-libaom --enable-libbluray --enable-libdav1d --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopus --enable-librav1e --enable-librubberband --enable-libsnappy --enable-libsrt --enable-libtesseract --enable-libtheora --enable-libvidstab --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libwebp --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libxml2 --enable-libxvid --enable-lzma --enable-libfontconfig --enable-libfreetype --enable-frei0r --enable-libass --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libspeex --enable-libsoxr --enable-libzmq --enable-libzimg --disable-libjack --disable-indev=jack --enable-videotoolbox
  libavutil      56. 70.100 / 56. 70.100
  libavcodec     58.134.100 / 58.134.100
  libavformat    58. 76.100 / 58. 76.100
  libavdevice    58. 13.100 / 58. 13.100
  libavfilter     7.110.100 /  7.110.100
  libavresample   4.  0.  0 /  4.  0.  0
  libswscale      5.  9.100 /  5.  9.100
  libswresample   3.  9.100 /  3.  9.100
  libpostproc    55.  9.100 / 55.  9.100
Input #0, rtsp, from 'rtsp://admin:[email protected]:554//h264Preview_01_sub':
  Metadata:
    title           : Session streamed by "preview"
    comment         : h264Preview_01_sub
  Duration: N/A, start: 0.000000, bitrate: N/A
  Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (High), yuv420p(progressive), 640x352, 12 tbr, 90k tbn, 180k tbc
  Stream #0:1: Audio: aac (LC), 16000 Hz, mono, fltp

Frigate stats

No response

Operating system

HassOS

Install method

HassOS Addon

Coral version

CPU (no coral)

Network connection

Wired

Camera make and model

Reolink, ESP32 Cam, some XONZ modules

Any other information that may be helpful

No response

[NickM-27]

It is highly recommended to run Frigate in docker natively instead of through the HASS addon. Unraid already has nvidia drivers and nvidia-frigate build in the community apps store ready to be downloaded and setup where the docs give instructions: https://docs.frigate.video/configuration/nvdec

There is also Frigate 0.11 currently in RC which works with nvidia more simply but still requires the drivers to be installed from the community apps store.

https://forums.unraid.net/topic/98978-plugin-nvidia-driver/

[DrSpaldo]

Agreed with @NickM-27 . That is how I run my setup with HA/Frigate/Unraid

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