This isn’t specifically Home Assistant, but so many people seem to be using Frigate with Home Assistant it feels close enough.

I recently got my first camera. I tried ZoneMinder for a while, but have given up - just overwhelmed with false positives for fog, rain, insects etc. and not being able to tune them out. Most people seem to be going Frigate so I’ll give that a go.

I don’t really want to use a USB TPU (no real reason) and my current server has no Mini PCIe or M.2 slots. I recall seeing people say they had bad experiences with PCIe M.2 adapters.

Does anyone here have any experience to share about any specific adapter?

  • Domi@lemmy.secnd.meEnglish
    3·
    7 hours ago

    I don’t really want to use a USB TPU (no real reason)

    Since there is no real reason, why no reevaluate?

    I connected my USB TPU to a spare internal USB 3.0 header and mounted it inside the case. Frigate has been working perfectly fine for years.

    I also use quite a few PCIe M.2 adapters but only for SSDs. No complaints here, full transfer speed and reliable. No reason why it shouldn’t work for TPUs.

  • entwine413@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    11 hours ago

    I’d have to dig through my Amazon orders, but I ran one such adapter in my work desktop for a while.

    Just read the 3 and 4 star reviews and go from there

  • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    5·
    16 hours ago

    Do you need a TPU? If you have a 7th gen or later Intel iGPU you can use OpenVINO in frigate and it works just as well if not better.

  • xylol@leminal.spaceEnglish
    41·
    1 day ago

    I use a ton of pcie adapters at work, but not really sure what you are doing? Pcie to m.2? Almost all the ones I’ve used off of amazon have worked fine except a sabrent one, it worked fine for a m.2 drive to have an os but when I used it for testing drives it didn’t work, it also took up a whole x16 slot for no raisin

    We use ones that look like this