Hardware Acceleration

[titro]

Hey Folks,

first impression is awesome. Much less CPU Power is needed compared to frigate!

I was wondering, if HW acceleration is availabe? I can see in the docs (but not more):hw_accel_enabled=true
hw_accel_device=

Is that a planned feature?

[matteius]

@titro we offload most of it to https://github.com/opensensor/light-object-detect which has support even for coral tpu, and planned is hailo, as well as CPU onnx models are the default support. I've experimented with libsod in the repository directly in the past with mixed results. Open to discussions and other ideas in this space.

[titro]

so i need light-object-detect running and then? how to connect lightnvr with that? is there a howto?

[matteius]

Probably needs more instructions around it, but essentially when you are configuring a stream in lightNVR one of the detection modes is like API/other and you can set an override for the endpoint, set it to your light-object-detect server with the trailing url /api/v1/detect I believe.

[titro]

but i also mean hw acceleration for encoding. is that all done from the CPU? the idle consumption is so low compared to other NVRs and that witout any GPU rendering? How :-D?