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#288386 25-Jun-2021 13:01

Is anyone here using Google Coral and Home Assistant?

I am running Home Assistant on a reasonably old NUC (no USB C) so have dived in and bought a Mini PCIe Google Coral the same as here:

Coral Google Mini PCIe Accelerator

I am currently running Blue Iris which feeds Deepstack running in Docker on the NUC. It is working great and takes around 500 ms to process images. I may convert to Frigate at some stage which is well integrated.

Cheers, Matt.

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#2734521 25-Jun-2021 15:38

I've considered it, are you running supervised? Also not keen on Blueiris, but I think there might be Motioneye integration.

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#2734548 25-Jun-2021 16:25

Yes. Supervised on the NUC with Portainer add-on which runs Deepstack

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#2734550 25-Jun-2021 16:26

Blue Iris is great but I am running it on a seperate PC and I feel like it would better running the video server on the NUC.

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#2734555 25-Jun-2021 16:37

Yeah not keen to run a Windows VM, so I've been testing a couple of docker NVRs. I'm running HA in a docker on an Unraid server, so sometimes run into stuff that is difficult without HASS.

Where did you get the Coral from?

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#2734629 25-Jun-2021 17:41

https://mouser.com. It's a shame RS components don't have stock and are showing September or I would have grabbed it from there. A USB C Coral would have been good if I had been running something more modern.

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#2734992 26-Jun-2021 13:03

hi,

I am running HA on proxmox with a coral USB and frigate NVR.

Works very well thus far...

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#2735017 26-Jun-2021 14:16

How many ms are you running for processing?

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#2735027 26-Jun-2021 14:23

25ms

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#2735042 26-Jun-2021 14:41

great. Thanks. That sure beats the NUC at the moment at 300 to 700 ms

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#2735055 26-Jun-2021 14:56

Wow! I had it on cpu before the coral and it was 70-80 ms, currently i have two cameras each detecting two types of objects

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#2735102 26-Jun-2021 17:15

cychronz:

hi,

I am running HA on proxmox with a coral USB and frigate NVR.

Works very well thus far...

Wow, looks like they have M2 modules, tasty. But my ancient HPE DL360 will probably have to make do with USB.

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#2739638 6-Jul-2021 11:52

My M.2 Coral arrived today, now to spin up Frigate. Currently using motionEye and Home Assistant, and will probably keep these along side Frigate.

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#2739667 6-Jul-2021 12:39

PANiCnz:

My M.2 Coral arrived today, now to spin up Frigate. Currently using motionEye and Home Assistant, and will probably keep these along side Frigate.

Keep us posted :) my M.2 Coral arrived yesterday, just waiting on an adapter card.

Are you thinking of installing the Coral natively in HA?

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#2739777 6-Jul-2021 16:03

shanes:

PANiCnz:

My M.2 Coral arrived today, now to spin up Frigate. Currently using motionEye and Home Assistant, and will probably keep these along side Frigate.

Are you thinking of installing the Coral natively in HA?

I'm not sure what you mean by natively? I wont be using the HA plugin if that's what you mean. I'm running Frigate on a spare NUC and will use the HA integration.

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#2739829 6-Jul-2021 17:04

PANiCnz:

shanes:

Are you thinking of installing the Coral natively in HA?

I'm not sure what you mean by natively? I wont be using the HA plugin if that's what you mean. I'm running Frigate on a spare NUC and will use the HA integration.

The HA OS has had the Coral drivers included since version 6, https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2021/06/11/home-assistant-os-release-6/#google-coral-pcie-ai-accelerator-support so I was wondering if you were going down that path.

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