New Install - Frigate keeps restarting

[jcromp60]

I think I have "some" of things properly set up. I am setting up a Surveillance system for my daughter's new store. Using Surveillance Station for the other location - trying to setup and use scrypted and/or frigate for the new. My system has been starting and stopping , often too quickly to even make changes in the config file.
Can someone please offer advice on how to get things stable?
Also do I need addnl hardware to assist with my setup - like an addnl USB GPU??

I will deploy this for my daughter next weekend and I live 5 hrs away - so I need to make sure it is working well!

I have the following hdw:
GEEKOM Air12 Mini PC with 13th Gen Intel N150, 16GB DDR5 512GB NVMe SSD Mini Desktop Computer
4 Amcrest 4k cameras

I have scrypted up and running with rebroadcast rtsp links

Here is my docker compose:
services:
frigate:
container_name: frigate
privileged: true # this may not be necessary for all setups
restart: unless-stopped
stop_grace_period: 30s # allow enough time to shut down the various services
image: ghcr.io/blakeblackshear/frigate:stable
shm_size: "512mb" # update for your cameras based on calculation above
devices:
#- /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/video11:/dev/video11 # For Raspberry Pi 4B
- /dev/dri/renderD128:/dev/dri/renderD128 # For intel hwaccel, needs to be updated for your hardware
volumes:
- /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
- /mnt/192.168.1.144/frigate/frigate:/config
- /mnt/192.168.1.144/frigate/frigate-storage:/media/frigate
- type: tmpfs # Optional: 1GB of memory, reduces SSD/SD Card wear
target: /tmp/cache
tmpfs:
size: 1000000000
ports:
- "8971:8971"
# - "5000:5000" # Internal unauthenticated access. Expose carefully.
- "8554:8554" # RTSP feeds
- "8555:8555/tcp" # WebRTC over tcp
- "8555:8555/udp" # WebRTC over udp
environment:
FRIGATE_RTSP_PASSWORD: "password"

Attached are logs:

frigate_logs.txt

And Here is my config file:

mqtt:
enabled: false

ffmpeg:
hwaccel_args: preset-vaapi

detectors:
ov:
type: openvino
device: auto

record:
enabled: true
retain:
days: 7
mode: motion
alerts:
retain:
days: 30
detections:
retain:
days: 30

snapshots:
enabled: true
retain:
default: 30

cameras:
name_of_your_camera:
detect:
width: 1280
height: 720
fps: 5
ffmpeg:
inputs:
- path: rtsp://192.168.9.200:44683/0871c189f0308540
roles:
- detect
motion:
mask:
- 0.000,0.427,0.002,0.000,0.999,0.000,0.999,0.781,0.885,0.456,0.700,0.424,0.701,0.311,0.507,0.294,0.453,0.347,0.451,0.400
detect:
enabled: true
version: 0.16-0

[hawkeye217]

You should follow the official documentation for setting up an OpenVINO model: https://docs.frigate.video/configuration/object_detectors/#openvino-detector

Additionally, the AI available via the "Ask AI" button at https://docs.frigate.video is a lot better at helping than the other major LLMs as it's been trained on Frigate docs and discussions.

[jcromp60]

Thanks for quick response - and YES I did review that (wasn't sompletely certain that I was in the right place)!

I guess the biggest issue now is that it keeps restarting so often that I can't even makee the changes (unless I get lucky in timing)
Any thoughts with review of the logs?

[jcromp60]

AI says that I don't have the model path set correct but I don't know how to find the correct model that my hardware has

Your log shows this error:

TypeError: stat: path should be string, bytes, os.PathLike or integer, not NoneType

This means Frigate is trying to load a model, but the model path in your detector configuration is not set (it's None). For detectors like OpenVINO, ONNX, EdgeTPU, and others, you must specify a valid model path under the model section of your config. For example:

yaml
model:
path: /openvino-model/ssdlite_mobilenet_v2.xml
labelmap_path: /openvino-model/coco_91cl_bkgr.txt
or for ONNX:

yaml
model:
path: /config/model_cache/yolo.onnx
labelmap_path: /labelmap/coco-80.txt

[NickM-27]

You can use the built in model which is shown in the OpenVINO config in the docs, or you can use the scripts in the docs to export a YOLOv9 model and run that (will use more resources, but be more accurate)

To get started, you literally just copy and paste the mobilenet config that is in the docs

[jcromp60]

Thanks for the answer - as I keep moving forward the AI has really helped with analysing the config file and errors

I'll keep working

[NickM-27]

is it working now?

[jcromp60]

Hey, thanks for checking back. After I plugged in error after error after error into AI, I finally got it to work I appreciate the help Get Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef>

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