Can frigate on synology nas use gpu on pc
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Aggravating-You-4304 · 2023-12-03 10:22

I'm assuming this is a dumb question because I can't find anything
about this, so it is either impossible or simple.  I am running
frigate on home assistant supervised in a vm from synology nas.  Can I
use my 3090 RTX GPU in my pc for hardware acceleration in frigate?  I
can't get ubuntu to see my gpu so I'm guessing no.

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ElevenNotes · 2023-12-03 11:06

No. Install frigate on the device that has a GPU or get a Coral USB
TPU.

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pusillanimouslist · 2023-12-03 17:46

As a general rule, no stand alone program can use the hardware on
another computer. It can only access the hardware on the machine it’s
running on.

There are theoretically exceptions to this, frigate doesn’t fall under
them though.

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xasiklas · 2023-12-03 18:46

Wait does coral work with synology now? I thought that the docker
engine in dsm can’t access the usb port

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The_Latch_Key_Kid · 2023-12-04 10:59

I have coral in synology.  You just edit the vm in vm manager and at
the bottom of the others tab, you enable the virtual usb and the coral
shows as 'global unichip corp' or something like that until you
initialise it and then it changes to google and you're good to go.  I
have 9 cams running now at 35% instead of 99% :)

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xasiklas · 2023-12-04 14:13

Thanks I’m going to give it a try again