OS or user issues

#1

Hi I am struggling to get the board to do what I want, not sure if the issues are with me, or there is something wrong with it.

What I am trying to achieve: Use NPU for Frigate object detection, however so far I have faced following issues:

  • fan constantly running on high RPM’s - had to manually change it(did a script to to it)
  • loosing LAN port after update(radxa update tool) - fixed by few commands and manual driver isntallation
  • couldn’t get ffmpeg support on radxa os, had to compile it on my own from:
    https://github.com/nyanmisaka/ffmpeg-rockchip

When I finally had few cameras running, after I restarted my frigate it won’t start again, something is worng with it.

Can someone tell me is there any kind of guide what system should I be using to have the basics working, or is there a guide for Frigate, eventually what am I doing wrong?

I am tempted to get jetson nano at this point, as I cannot fight so hard with the system.

#2

You went far with Your bundle in system, You may be really near with this setup,
For components You may consider to run few things in docker container, this makes those easier to move and redeploy.

#3

I’ve been running them in containers, but now one of them doesn’t start. Anyway I need to start from scratch.

Can someone tell me, should I update the system or not?

#4

If You are using radxa-os then update it using rconfig (there are some issues with packages when it’s done via apt). Since Armbian support NPU it may worth to try with it,

here it’s documented for opi5+ and coral, You may find this useful:
https://codingfield.com/blog/2024-01/install-frigate-in-proxmox-on-orangepi5plus/

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#5

Or save yourself some trouble and use Armbian or Joshua’s Ubuntu

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#6

Thanks I was sitting on radxa-os and I was using rconfig, but it was causing so much issues… I didn’t know that others support NPU and it is what I need, I will try armbian then! Maybe will be easier, as radxa-os gives me headaches.

The guide you provided is from Jan 2024, not sure why they went with coral TPU as RK3588 got nice NPU, anyway I managed to sort NPU yesterday but after docker restart it started crashing etc. Also Frigate does come with nice image for rock chips:

the one that ends with - rk is optimised for this NPU

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#7

Remember that ARM is not x86. At this point, don’t expect mainline ffmpeg to support the Rockchip VPU. Your options are ffmpeg-rockchip or just using jellyfin’s ffmpeg. Just install it and alias/link as ffmpeg

#8

Check the download options and pick your poison… likely anything but radxa official is better supported… Joshua stopped supporting / armbian is always there and if you like arch linux / Kwankius installer is the best option

#9

Thanks! I went with armbian as Joshua’s ubuntu us no longer updated.

Anyway, looks like everything(so far) is working withotu any issues on the armbian, I am surprised that radxa’s debian is so bad… But at least I got my system working and can start doing the right stuff.

#10

Its like this: u dont buy an lenovo laptop asus acer hp and expect all of them to give u their own version of windows… Radxa provides and you tweak it… but everyone uses armbian thats also the reason why they are more relaxed… cause at the end of the day the Pull Requests goes to armbian.

#11

Of course I do not expect them, moreover I do not expect them to maintain the drivers, however, if radxa is supplying us os, at least they should make sure that we are not loosing Ethernet drivers after restart and our fan is not doing 120% in idle :smiley:

yeah armbian is the way to go from now for me :slight_smile: I was disappointed initially but now I am getting happy with the device. Just need to understood how to move the system to the nvme :smiley:

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#12

Armbian provides script to do that, armbian-install or something like that, it will do most job for You, updating SPI to right image, move system etc. If Your nvme is compatible enough and there is some power for it then it should just boot.

If You find armbian useful You can post guide for others what is up to date in 2025 with frigate and rock 5b. I hope You will get all needed stuff to work as expected. Armbian has own issues and don’t be surprised if something will be broken just on update, but for sure it’s solid base to get somewhere :smiley:

#13

BTW: opensource Rockchip NPU driver is expected in linux 6.18

This will make at least few things easier :slight_smile: