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And of cause, I have a Home Assistant installation running.

Preparing the MacBook Firmware/T2

I had some problems with removing the activation lock and even do an Internet recovery (that just failed with 1008F Error). but when the MACOS finally was cleanly installed, make sure to enable USB Boot, as this:

Installing Ubuntu

I had a lot of trouble actually getting the danm thing to boot, but on a stick with Ubuntu 22.04 (used Balena Etcher), it finally did.

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Ubuntu is installed and the complete SSD Disk used.

Docker install

Lets install docker.io:

apt install docker.io

Frigate NVR Install

Find information on Frigate here

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Heres a view on object detection:

Coral Stick on Linux

I had some problems getting the Coral stick to work (the Frigate docker image has all needed for it), but it did not show up as an Device on the MacBook:

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