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I just want them to make more of the USB and PCIe variants. They are so handy for little Frigate NVR boxes—throw one of these on a Pi 4 and you can do at least a few 1080p cameras with person/object detection, or with a Pi 5 I'm able to do a few 4K streams!

Currently the only way to get one is to pay scalper prices like $100+ on eBay or Amazon.

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> throw one of these on a Pi 4 and you can do at least a few 1080p cameras with person/object detection, or with a Pi 5 I'm able to do a few 4K streams!

You can take the M.2 A+E version and throw it into an Intel NUC (replacing the wifi+bt card).

For me, the nuisance is, that the gasket-driver is not upstreamed, distros do not ship it, so you have to build it yourself and fool around with Secure Boot signing keys.

> Currently the only way to get one is to pay scalper prices like $100+ on eBay or Amazon.

Depending on the model, Mouser has them in stock.

I've used them for Frigate as well and agree that they are amazing.

Digikey has a few hundred of USB style in stock:

https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/seeed-technology-...

I would really love to pick your brains on this. Did you do anything special with Frigate to do the stream processing ( hardware offloading etc? ) or was it simply plug and play.

IIRC, it's editing the config file to tell Frigate top use the Coral.

https://docs.frigate.video/configuration/detectors/

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