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,
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.
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.
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.
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.