WTH why no drivers for AMD or NVIDIA in HAOS

Month of "What the heck?!"
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When could we have drivers for amd and Nvidia graphics cards with haos and frigate used so much now it really needs a gpu supported form haos,

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It’s killing me not to have drivers, I’m running HAos, on a badass laptop, but I can’t use any of the graphics hardware for video acceleration.

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You do realize that Home Assistant is a server? What graphics would benefit from a GPU? Also, the vast majority of Home Assistant users are on the Raspberry Pi, and I am unaware of any GPU support for the Pi.

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Off the top of my head, I can think of local LLMs and computer vision applications like Frigate. Is AMD not supported with the standard kernel already?

I agree this is quite niche though, I would not want my 24x7 PC to have the power overhead of a CPU.

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It’s a bit more involved, but you could:

  • use proxmox
  • create hass vm
  • create lxc to be a docker container host, install docker, nvidia-container-toolkit and configure it to use docker
    • use proxmox to pass GPU through to lxc so the lxc can pass the GPU through to the docker containers it will host
  • create frigate docker container and pass GPU through to it
  • configure hass to use the docker frigate container
  • use the docker lxc to create GPU accelerated docker containers for whatever you need.

This is what I do and it works great (proxmox setup, i don’t use frigate) . The biggest benefit of using LXCs is that you can share 1 physical GPU with many LXC containers at once AND then pass through the GPU to many docker containers.

If I create a VM and pass the GPU through to the VM, only the VM can use it. You could pass the GPU through to many docker containers in that VM.

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