ASUS GT-BE19000_AI / GT-BE96_AI Concerns: Synaptics SL1680 NPU Incompatibility (Ollama & Frigate)

[jzchen]

I have new information: Frigate has added support for Synaptics NPUs in version 0.17, which is currently at the RC3 preview stage. I hope ASUS will integrate this into the AI Board as soon as possible after the official release of Frigate v0.17.

I can pull the image from ghcr.io/blakeblackshear/frigate:stable

Container fails to run/build with "code 1"
But I have no clue how/where to add this, as it seems needed:

detectors:
# Required: name of the detector
detector_name:
# Required: type of the detector
# Frigate provides many types, see https://docs.frigate.video/configuration/object_detectors for more details (default: shown below)
# Additional detector types can also be plugged in.
# Detectors may require additional configuration.
# Refer to the Detectors configuration page for more information.
type: npu

 

[Rabbit-Spec]

I have new information: Frigate has added support for Synaptics NPUs in version 0.17, which is currently at the RC3 preview stage. I hope ASUS will integrate this into the AI Board as soon as possible after the official release of Frigate v0.17.

It seems to be because the configuration file was not found.

 

[RMerlin]

I have new information: Frigate has added support for Synaptics NPUs in version 0.17, which is currently at the RC3 preview stage. I hope ASUS will integrate this into the AI Board as soon as possible after the official release of Frigate v0.17.

Asus just confirmed to me that NPU support is already present in the version included in AiBoard:

The version currently running on the AI board (0.15.1) is the initial integration version and was not merged upstream into the official project.

Version 0.17, on the other hand, is the officially merged version that was later integrated into the upstream repository via a formal PR.

So, the build used by Asuswrt does support that NPU, and it was confirmed in their own internal testing.

 

[jzchen]

The 0.15.1 was available as an update from 0.12.x (not sure exactly) on docker hub/repository. I have been shopping around for a camera but yet to choose one because the recommended ones would likely require me to find someone to help install it.

A Google search for docker Frigate image produces a link to this page:

It took me a while to figure out how to download it on Portainer, but still haven't figured out where to get the configuration file as noted by @Rabbit-Spec and the snippet I found doesn't seem complete anyways...

 

[RMerlin]

As I said, Asus already has 0.15.1 installed on the router.