Frigate addon hardware acceleration

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I am using the frigate hassio addon running HA on a AMD computer with vega graphics. I am having issues with RTMP stream being reencoded from a MJPEG camera. I have added the input and put args listed in the Frigate documentation and my camera is properly detecting and recording files. When I try to view the re-encoded rtmp stream it is only outputting frames randomly and slowly. I tried to enable hardware acceleration but the frigate docs for AMD/ATI GPU says to add and environment variable LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=radeonsi to the container. I have tried everything I know how to do and nothing seems to update the LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME from i965 ro radeonsi.

I have tried adding below to my frigate.yml but no luck. When I run the docker command inspect add-on-ccblah-frigate the config still reports i965.
environment_vars:
LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME: radeonsi

Any help or advice would be appreciated.

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I know it’s been over a year, and I hope you got this figured out.

I was having a similar problem when I migrated from a NUC to a mini PC running a Ryzen 5 with Vega 7 graphics yesterday. (I’m running HASS OS on a Trigkey S5). I kept getting crashing on Frigate and tons of corrupted files on the clips. Turning off hardware acceleration was the only thing that would let the addon start normally. So I was searching the forum for some insight and your post was the only one I could find.

I was struggling to find docker settings for the addon and then I saw way tucked down in the documentation that you just need to put environment_vars in your frigate.yml file, like this:

environment_vars:
  LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME: radeonsi

detectors:
  coral:
    type: edgetpu
    device: usb

ffmpeg:
  hwaccel_args: preset-vaapi
  input_args:
    - -avoid_negative_ts
    - make_zero
  output_args:
    record: -f segment -segment_time 10 -segment_format mp4 -reset_timestamps 1 -strftime 1 -c:v copy -c:a aac

After a save and restart of the addon, it works like a charm. Anyway, like I said, I hope you don’t need this info, but I thought I’d post this solution in case someone else was a bit lost like I was.

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Tried the same but Frigate keeps crashing.
I tried to pass in the docker-compose file

  • /dev/dri/card0:/dev/dri/card0

and declared the environment variable like you mentioned, but no luck.
am I missing something? :confused:

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This thread was started two years ago - the information in it may be out of date. It might be better to start a new thread in which you can describe your own situation, with a link to this one to provide context if necessary.

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The docs tell that hardware acceleration will not work in HA add-on installations because drivers are lacking.

@wryandginger So how did you get that work? It is this a separate Docker container