Hardware requirements

[primski]

Hey,

I am using a HP EliteDesk mini pc ... it has i7 6th gen CPU with 32 GB ram ... GPU integrated i believe

not a great thing for this by any means but not too shabby either if you ask me.

but frigate is absolutely killing it; the fans will blow off and the thing will melt in a couple of months if i leave it on ...

this is probably expected? or is it ffmpeg killing it ? can it be optimized?
thanks

[blakeblackshear]

It should be able to handle it fine. My guess is that you are trying to run detect on a high resolution/fps stream.

[primski]

aha ok i see, Android app has no such options, maybe the web interface does ... i will go recheck this. it requires ActiveX enabled Internet explorer and haven't used that in ages :D

so just to be clear .. this kind of set up would enable detection on lower resolution stream while recordings would still be high res? this sounds pretty cool :) thanks a lot!

[NickM-27]

yes, read https://docs.frigate.video/guides/camera_setup#example-camera-configuration for more details

[primski]

hm, maybe it does have ...

running ffprobe with ?stream=1 shows different output
Stream #0:0: Video: hevc (Main), yuvj420p(pc), 800x448 [SAR 4:3 DAR 50:21], 12 fps, 12 tbr, 90k tbn, 12 tbc

i will try and see what happens, many thanks most helpful

[NickM-27]

Yes, that would be a substream. https://docs.frigate.video/guides/getting_started#step-7-enable-recording-optional shows how to setup the main stream for recording and the sub stream for detect

[primski]

ok cool, i set it up. seems to be working. i had to re-set the mask coordinates, makes sense.
will leave it on for a few days, see what happens :) many thanks

[NickM-27]

Recommend reading #3860 even if you don't have a coral

[primski]

hm yea, i tried some of these already .. i will go though it again, thanks