Success with CPAI - Coral tpu - Blue Iris!
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My set up was CPAI on unraid as a container. Windows on a sff dedicated pc (lenovo thinkcenter i5-3470T) GPU GTX970 on unraid passed through to the container. I had a few coral devices, A+E, M2 wifi and usb. Used on frigate Tried the tpu on cpai last year and it failed miserably. I have now a set up utilising the tpu with cpai and blueiris very well. 1- windows 10 X-Lite on the i5-3470T. 8GB ram. sata SSD 2- CPAI container on unraid (this can be CPAI on the windows pc also) - my sff has an A+E slot so may experiment. 3- Coral tpu m2 wifi on the asrock B550m board that hosts unraid. Used for my NAS. 4- AITool on the windows pc 5- BI Alert Tab - Confirm Alert with AI UNticked. 6- BI Record Tab - save jpegs to local folder on windows pc 7- AIool server pointing to unraid CPAI 8- AItool folder from the BI path for record jpegs CPAI_CORAL_MODEL_NAME = YOLOv8 Size: Medium Inference speeds: 8.6ms round trips: 15-22ms All sent to telegram and MQTT for nodered. Removed my old GPU to reduce power consumption. So far so good. AITool was necessary here to finely tune each object (% image size etc) Hope this helps someone struggling and wants to use a tpu. 12 cameras - 6 recording 24/7 CPU utilizes just 10-12%!