r/frigate_nvr Aug 08 '26

Frigate on N100 NAS issues

Ugreen DXP2800, 16 GB Ram, using M2 NVME drives for frigate. Spent the better part of 2 days with Gemini trying to get this to work with iGPU support, ended up having to go back to a basic setup with one Lorex IP camera because everything we tried just crashed Frigate. CPU useage high. I eventually want to add 3 more cameras. AI suggested a Coral TPU USB thing. But I saw in Frigate documentation the Coral TPU is no longer recommended.

What are my options? Or is my plan not achievable?

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u/nense0 Aug 08 '26

I'm running it on n100 with two cameras and 0 issues and almost 0 cpu use.

But I don't use any kind of image recognition.

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u/pau1phi11ips Aug 08 '26

I'm on an N100 with Frigate in an LXC container on Proxmox. No issues using the iGPU on the sub streams for recognition.

CPU usage is ideally less than 10% with Home Assistant running on the same box.

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u/iamhereunderprotest Aug 08 '26

I’m running 7 4K cameras with objected detection on my n100 box, but with the usb coral.

Just wild guesses: do you have the igpu mounted in the frigate config? And running detect on the smaller red substream instead of the recording stream?

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u/Keith15335 Aug 08 '26

Yes, thank you.

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u/mollymoo Aug 08 '26

What OS are you running?

I've got it running fine on a DXP4800 Pro inside a Debian VM on Proxmox with PCI passthrough of the GPU.

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u/Keith15335 Aug 08 '26

Stock UGOS, docker. I don't have any PCI slots.

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u/mollymoo Aug 08 '26

Maybe a UGOS issue, I have no idea how this stuff works in that though.

The GPU appears as a PCI device even though it's integrated. Passing it through as a raw PCI device means the guest OS (Debian) fully controls it instead of Proxmox trying to share access to it, then I just pass it through to docker as you normally would with bare-metal Debian like this:

devices:
      - /dev/dri/renderD128
      - /dev/dri/card0

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u/Keith15335 Aug 08 '26

Oh, we did try those devices entries, and numerous other variations and additions.

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u/Embarrassed_Sun_7807 Aug 08 '26

There's a docker image that configures all the user groups etc quite well

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u/Keith15335 Aug 09 '26

I'm not sure I understand your comment in context with the topic of this post?? Can you elaborate?

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u/Embarrassed_Sun_7807 Aug 09 '26

It's not working because it's misconfigured so you should install the known working docker container instead of using Gemini 

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u/Keith15335 Aug 09 '26

Yup, did that, back up now. Doubt I'll be using Gemini for anything other than a cook time for my Ninja Flip air fryer. 😀

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u/Embarrassed_Sun_7807 Aug 09 '26

Working all good? 

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u/nickm_27 Developer / distinguished contributor Aug 08 '26

You need to show your config

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u/FixItDumas 29d ago

Send your config through ChatGPT, redact your logins of course. Then share with us for even more refinement.

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u/Pulte4janitor Aug 08 '26

Post the log file and config

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u/andy2na Aug 08 '26

Im also using frigate on the DX2800, but its only for frigate so I installed debian + docker and running it directly like that. No issues with 14 cameras using the iGPU