How to use a rockchip -rk frigate image on Home Assistant Green?

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I’ve installed frigate on my new Home Assistant Green, I can see my cameras and I’m capturing events with a Coral TPU, however watching the CPU usage in htop shows all 4 cores at around 65-75% usage and watching docker stats it shows the addon_ccab4aaf_frigate-fa container using ~240% CPU.

I’m guessing it’s using software decoding. The Home Assistant Green has a Rockchip RK3566 SoC, and the Frigate config page says hardware decoding is supported on Rockchip devices using a frigate docker image with a -rk suffix.

So my question is, having installed frigate via HACS and the Add-ons sytem, how can I get an -rk image installed and running?

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you can’t, the addon system does not expose the correct control for rockchip to be supported as an addon

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Thanks @crzynik. I’m a bit of a HA/frigate noob. Can I run frigate as a custom docker container on the HA Green, as per the frigate docs, and will the hwaccel args be available then?

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Only if you put a different OS on there than HA OS, which I believe is not recommended.

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Does this mean there is really no way to leverage a Coral TPU with a Home Assistant Green setup to reduce CPU usage for Frigate object detection?

Total newb here but trying to see if there is any path for me to do some basic detection without hosing my Green’s CPU, eg try to detect the school bus driving by during a 10 minute period each morning.