Looking for someone to assemble and ship a PC

CanCuba

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I'm looking at making the move from an NVR to Frigate. Everything I need can be ordered and shipped to Cuba (where I live) but it would be easier to just ship an assembled PC.

I thought I'd reach out and see if anyone would be interested in giving me a hand. Of course, this would be a paid gig.

I'm looking at buying the following:

  • SFF PC
  • 2 WD Purple drives
  • Google Coral Dual Edge M.2 TPU
  • PCIe adaptor for the Coral

There may be additional RAM to be installed but that's unlikely.

Once everything is together in the case, the unit would need to be tested to make sure everything is functioning (expecting to have Windows preinstalled) and then shipped to a freight forwarder in Miami (or elsewhere in Florida).

If anyone is interested, please contact me privately!

Oh, and Merry Xmas to you all! Happy surveilling this holiday season.
 
You dont really need dual coral for frigate, only if you want to run proxmox and give another machine a "physical" tpu. the benefit is nearly zero for frigate only.

dual tpu is complicated because you need special adapter from magicsmoke. most boards dont have the ability of 2 busses on one pci express port.

i made the same mistake and wasted around 50 usd, but cannot see any benefit.

just use the single core one, much easier to handle. some boards have wifi card slot where it works out of the box.
 
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You dont really need dual coral for frigate, only if you want to run proxmox and give another machine a "physical" tpu. the benefit is nearly zero for frigate only.

dual tpu is complicated because you need special adapter from magicsmoke. most boards dont have the ability of 2 busses on one pci express port.

i made the same mistake and wasted around 50 usd, but cannot see any benefit.

just use the single core one, much easier to handle. some boards have wifi card slot where it works out of the box.

Thank you. I've gone back and forth with this re: dual Coral

The adaptor isn't a deal breaker for me. And having an "extra" Coral to dedicate to face recognition gives me something to play with. And the price makes it attractive considering how they've dropped in price.

With Frigate's new Semantic Search, it sounds like people are using
GPUs/iGPUs to handle the AI and letting the Coral do object detection.

It sounds like there's a LOT of new features in the pipe for Frigate and I'm trying to future-proof myself.
 
Yeah ive read the 0.15 version changelog too.

I cant get one tpu over 12ms , even with 20 streams.

Not sure how much one tpu can handle. Back then i thought 2 gives better performance, but the adapter bullshit got me into problems. I dont see any benefit. Thats what people on reddit write too.
 
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Yeah ive read the 0.15 version changelog too.

I cant get one tpu over 12ms , even with 20 streams.

Not sure how much one tpu can handle. Back then i thought 2 gives better performance, but the adapter bullshit got me into problems.

I've seen people saying that they've gotten the Coral down to 6ms. I think they're using a D1 substream @ 3fps to 5fps.

Is rather buy a $60 dual Coral than a much more expensive, and more energy consuming, GPU.

I can make the transition slowly from my NVR and slowly add cams.

It will be a fun experiment.
 
I am using 5fps 720p substream2.
The adapter adds a bit latency because of the bus switch. But it works fine. Bit complicated to get it work with proxmox, but there was a tutorial somewhere.
 
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So looks like a gpu is needed, better go for nvidia.
 
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So looks like a gpu is needed, better go for nvidia.

It sounds like iGPU will work okay.

As I'm looking to move to Frigate, buying a system for the future is becoming a bit of a challenge.