Help setting up GPU hardware acceleration.

[mechpanos]

Hi, I would like some help here!
I am running the addon, and can't setup gpu hardware acceleration, to offload my cpu.
I have an ATI 5450, I set up

ffmpeg:
  hwaccel_args:
    - -hwaccel
    - vaapi
    - -hwaccel_device
    - /dev/dri/renderD128

But then, all I get is green video.
I try to set the variable in docker (through Portainer), to LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=radeonsi
but no success! Then I check the container, and it is set back to "I965", by itself. Is Supervisor, making this?
What else, should I try?
I have some experience with Linux, but none with Docker (that's why I installed Portainer, to help me get along with a GUI to manage images and containers).

[MattEng0]

Cause you are running it through HomeAssistant in order to set the environment variables you have to add them to the config.yml file so it isn't overwritten by the defaults on start up,

So in your case add this line:

environment_vars:
  LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=radeonsi

More details listed here Frigate: Advanced Configuration

[DanGarion]

I have a question about where the environment variable goes. I'm running the Frigate add-on within HA and when I add

environment_vars:
  LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=radeonsi

To my frigate.yml I get errors saying you can't put that in there. Am I supposed to put it in the frigate.yml or in my HA configuration.yml? I tried HA config and that didn't check out either.

Here is my error.

`[2022-06-30 08:58:24] frigate.app INFO : Starting Frigate (0.11.0-1d45b0b)

---

---

*** Your config file is not valid! ***
*** Please check the docs at ***
*** https://docs.frigate.video/configuration/index ***

---

---

*** Config Validation Errors ***

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1 validation error for FrigateConfig
environment_vars
value is not a valid dict (type=type_error.dict)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/frigate/frigate/app.py", line 326, in start
self.init_config()
File "/opt/frigate/frigate/app.py", line 82, in init_config
user_config = FrigateConfig.parse_file(config_file)
File "/opt/frigate/frigate/config.py", line 942, in parse_file
return cls.parse_obj(config)
File "pydantic/main.py", line 521, in pydantic.main.BaseModel.parse_obj
File "pydantic/main.py", line 341, in pydantic.main.BaseModel.init
pydantic.error_wrappers.ValidationError: 1 validation error for FrigateConfig
environment_vars
value is not a valid dict (type=type_error.dict)

---

*** End Config Validation Errors ***
*************************************************************`

[DanGarion]

Well let me look a little deeper in on my CPU, maybe it doesn't use the setup I assumed it did. I do see the render128 driver in dev/dri so I guess I will either just deal with it or figure it out. :)

[NickM-27]

You'll also want to make sure that the host OS contains the driver for the iGPU. For example, I run Unraid and had to include it so frigate could utilize the iGPU.

[DanGarion]

I'm runnnig debian 10. I checked to see if I have drivers loaded and it seems like I do. I will keep digging. I'm not "seeing" any issues other than it seems like it isn't using the GPU. I do have a coral/tpu as well and I know that is working.

[DanGarion]

Oh I think I know why radeontop won't show my GPU usage it only works with the free drivers (for anything more than the mem), I have official drivers installed. I'll just assume it is working until I see an issue.

[NickM-27]

Ah very interesting