So, I got hands on a older MacBook and it seemed fit according to the Recommended Hardware.
Also, I am equipped with 4 Reolink Cams and a Coral stick, but I have not used any Reolink specifics from Camera Specific Configuration.
And of cause, I have a Home Assistant installation running.
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:
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.
But, the Mac Keyboard was not working, but I got hold of an eternal keyboard - and that worked.
I had a lot of problemes getting to use the disk, several times the installer just crashed and restarted, or stopped with "Installing grub on taget device failed"
But I finally got the installer to remove all partitions and install, with the "Use custom partitions" option - make sure to whipe and erase all partitions on the disk.
After the install the "df -h" command told me that only 100 GB of the disk was used - I have no clue why the installer sets it up this way..
But the fix was easy - first examine the LVM:
root@beetle:/home/bnp# vgdisplay --- Volume group --- VG Name ubuntu-vg System ID Format lvm2 Metadata Areas 1 Metadata Sequence No 2 VG Access read/write VG Status resizable MAX LV 0 Cur LV 1 Open LV 1 Max PV 0 Cur PV 1 Act PV 1 VG Size <462.87 GiB PE Size 4.00 MiB Total PE 118494 Alloc PE / Size 25600 / 100.00 GiB Free PE / Size 92894 / <362.87 GiB VG UUID Dd5nRh-qzsj-z6rX-H1o1-JzMd-kXEI-7bWoEx |
The import part being:
Free PE / Size 92894 / <362.87 GiB |
So, 362 GB not used.
Lets extend and resize:
lvextend -l +100%FREE /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv resize2fs /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv |
Now, we can see "Free PE / Size 0 / 0"
root@beetle:/home/bnp# vgdisplay --- Volume group --- VG Name ubuntu-vg System ID Format lvm2 Metadata Areas 1 Metadata Sequence No 4 VG Access read/write VG Status resizable MAX LV 0 Cur LV 1 Open LV 1 Max PV 0 Cur PV 1 Act PV 1 VG Size <462.87 GiB PE Size 4.00 MiB Total PE 118494 Alloc PE / Size 118494 / <462.87 GiB Free PE / Size 0 / 0 VG UUID Dd5nRh-qzsj-z6rX-H1o1-JzMd-kXEI-7bWoEx |
Ubuntu is installed and the complete SSD Disk is now utilized.
Lets install docker.io:
apt install docker.io |
Find information on Frigate here
First, I generally put all docker stuff in /opt - and I dont use docker-compose very much. Maybee one day... |
Creating the needed Directory and the config file:
mkdir /opt/frigate vi /opt/frigate/config |
The config file can be huge and there are plenty of options, here is my current:
mqtt: host: 10.0.0.183 go2rtc: streams: frigate_front_door_cam_main: - "ffmpeg:http://10.0.0.151/flv?port=1935&app=bcs&stream=channel0_main.bcs&user=******&password=******#video=copy#audio=copy#audio=opus" frigate_front_door_cam_sub: - "ffmpeg:http://10.0.0.151/flv?port=1935&app=bcs&stream=channel0_ext.bcs&user=******&password=******" frigate_behind_house_cam_main: - "ffmpeg:http://10.0.0.176/flv?port=1935&app=bcs&stream=channel0_main.bcs&user=******&password=******#video=copy#audio=copy#audio=opus" frigate_behind_house_cam_sub: - "ffmpeg:http://10.0.0.176/flv?port=1935&app=bcs&stream=channel0_ext.bcs&user=******&password=******" frigate_carport_cam_main: - "ffmpeg:http://10.0.0.191/flv?port=1935&app=bcs&stream=channel0_main.bcs&user=******&password=******#video=copy#audio=copy#audio=opus" frigate_carport_cam_sub: - "ffmpeg:http://10.0.0.191/flv?port=1935&app=bcs&stream=channel0_ext.bcs&user=******&password=******" frigate_big_shed_cam_main: - "ffmpeg:http://10.0.0.108/flv?port=1935&app=bcs&stream=channel0_main.bcs&user=******&password=******#video=copy#audio=copy#audio=opus" frigate_big_shed_cam_sub: - "ffmpeg:http://10.0.0.108/flv?port=1935&app=bcs&stream=channel0_ext.bcs&user=******&password=******" cameras: frigate_front_door_cam: ffmpeg: inputs: - path: rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/frigate_front_door_cam_sub?video=copy input_args: preset-rtsp-restream roles: - detect - path: rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/frigate_front_door_cam_main?video=copy&audio=aac input_args: preset-rtsp-restream roles: - record rtmp: enabled: False detect: width: 640 height: 480 fps: 5 objects: track: - person snapshots: enabled: True timestamp: false bounding_box: True retain: default: 2 record: enabled: True events: retain: default: 10 frigate_behind_house_cam: ffmpeg: inputs: - path: rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/frigate_behind_house_cam_sub?video=copy input_args: preset-rtsp-restream roles: - detect - path: rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/frigate_behind_house_cam_main?video=copy&audio=aac input_args: preset-rtsp-restream roles: - record rtmp: enabled: False detect: width: 640 height: 480 fps: 5 objects: track: - person snapshots: enabled: True timestamp: false bounding_box: True retain: default: 2 record: enabled: True events: retain: default: 10 frigate_carport_cam: ffmpeg: inputs: - path: rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/frigate_carport_cam_sub?video=copy input_args: preset-rtsp-restream roles: - detect - path: rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/frigate_carport_cam_main?video=copy&audio=aac input_args: preset-rtsp-restream roles: - record rtmp: enabled: False detect: width: 640 height: 480 fps: 5 objects: track: - person - car snapshots: enabled: True timestamp: false bounding_box: True retain: default: 2 record: enabled: True events: retain: default: 10 frigate_big_shed_cam: ffmpeg: inputs: - path: rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/frigate_big_shed_cam_sub?video=copy input_args: preset-rtsp-restream roles: - detect - path: rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/frigate_big_shed_cam_main?video=copy&audio=aac input_args: preset-rtsp-restream roles: - record rtmp: enabled: False detect: width: 640 height: 480 fps: 5 objects: track: - person - car snapshots: enabled: True timestamp: false bounding_box: True retain: default: 2 record: enabled: True events: retain: default: 10 detectors: coral: type: edgetpu device: usb birdseye: enabled: True mode: continuous |
In short, the file sets up 4 cams - using:
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Reference to the configuration file is here.
And the database file /opt/frigate/frigate.yml
codedatabase: path: /opt/frigate/frigate.db |
Now we can start Frigate:
docker run -d \ --name frigate \ --restart always \ --mount type=tmpfs,target=/tmp/cache,tmpfs-size=1000000000 \ --device /dev/bus/usb:/dev/bus/usb \ --shm-size=256m \ -v /opt/frigate/media:/media/frigate \ -v /opt/frigate/config.yml:/config/config.yml:ro \ -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro \ -e FRIGATE_RTSP_PASSWORD='**********' \ -p 5000:5000 \ -p 1935:1935 \ ghcr.io/blakeblackshear/frigate:stable |
This should start Frigate and show it on http://10.0.0.164:5000:
If the interface is not up, troubleshoot the logs with:
docker logs --tail 50 --follow --timestamps "frigate" |
Heres a view on object detection:
And a snapshot with an object detection (the yellow box is the bounding_box in the config file):
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:
root@beetle:/home/bnp# lsusb Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Bus 001 Device 003: ID 05ac:1463 Apple, Inc. USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05ac:1017 Apple, Inc. USB2.0 Hub Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 006 Device 002: ID 05ac:1018 Apple, Inc. USB3.1 Hub Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 004 Device 002: ID 0bda:8153 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8153 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub |
Loking at the links for the 2 versions - USB and M2
echo "deb https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt coral-edgetpu-stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/coral-edgetpu.list curl https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt/doc/apt-key.gpg | sudo apt-key add - sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install gasket-dkms libedgetpu1-std |
So it seems my stick is detected as a PCI Device. Theres some more info on what to use as docker parameter here:
- /dev/bus/usb:/dev/bus/usb # passes the USB Coral, needs to be modified for other versions - /dev/apex_0:/dev/apex_0 # passes a PCIe Coral, follow driver instructions here https://coral.ai/docs/m2/get-started/#2a-on-linux - /dev/dri/renderD128 # for intel hwaccel, needs to be updated for your hardware |
And now its visible:
root@beetle:/home/bnp# lsusb Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Bus 001 Device 003: ID 05ac:1463 Apple, Inc. USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05ac:1017 Apple, Inc. USB2.0 Hub Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 006 Device 003: ID 1a6e:089a Global Unichip Corp. Bus 006 Device 002: ID 05ac:1018 Apple, Inc. USB3.1 Hub Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 004 Device 002: ID 0bda:8153 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8153 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub |