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Hailo Installation

CVEDIA-RT supports Hailo H8, Hailo H15 and all it's variants in either M.2, PCI-E and standalone versions.

Limitations

Some models are not available in this platform, when this happens CVEDIA-RT will automatically fallback to the next best backend.

Supported Hailo versions

HailoRT DFC
4.16.0 3.26.0

HailoRT Versions

As of CVEDIA-RT 2024.1.0 we locked support to 4.16.0

If you don't know what version you're running...

Run ldconfig -v | grep hailo to find what hailort version you've currently loaded.

Supported Hailo Hardware arch

  • HailoH8
  • HailoH8L
  • HailoH8R
  • Hailo15M
  • Hailo15H

It's very important to assure that hailo is running at PCI-E 4x link width. There's a significant loss of performance if you run at 2x or 1x.

To make sure you're running at maximum speed:

On Windows

You can check on Device Manager -> System devices -> Hailo XX Accelerator -> Details -> PCI current link width

PCI-E Windows

You should see 0000004 , meaning 4x.

On Linux

Find PCI address of hailo:

# lspci | grep -i co-proc
0000:01:00.0 Co-processor: Device 1e60:2864 (rev 01)

Query For speed:

# lspci -vv -s 0000:01:00.0  | grep -i width
                LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 8GT/s, Width x4, ASPM L0s L1, Exit Latency L0s <1us, L1 <2us
                LnkSta: Speed 8GT/s (ok), Width x4

Requirements

CVEDIA-RT will work with any Linux distro that can run dockers or with minimum glibc 2.27 (2.31 recommended) natively with deb packages.

CVEDIA-RT works on x86_64, aarch64, armv7a and armhf ISAs.

CVEDIA-RT been tested on Ubuntu 18 and 20, other platforms and systems are not supported / tested.

Docker install

  • 16G disk space
  • Docker 20.04 or newer

To run on GPU using NVIDIA, you will also need:

Check Compute Capability to make sure your gpu is compatible.

If you don't have docker installed

Check install docker guide.

If you don't have NVIDIA Docker installed

Check the official install guide from NVIDIA.

Native install

  • Debian-like distro with glibc >= 2.27 (run ldd --version to check)
  • ~8G disk space
  • dpkg or similar package manager

To run on GPU using NVIDIA, you will also need:

  • CUDA toolkit

Check Compute Capability to make sure your gpu is compatible.

Installation

Docker

By default CVEDIA-RT will run a GUI, that may require some X11 changes, the install.sh script will check if your current settings are compatible and perform changes as needed.

You may need to restart your X11 session after changes are performed.

  1. Extract the .tar.gz file you downloaded: tar -xzvf <filename.tar.gz>
  2. Run install script: sudo ./install.sh

Running with GUI

Run ./run.sh to start.

Depending on the devices and platform you're running you may be required to run as sudo or start the docker with privileged mode, this is automatically decided by the startup script.

Running Headless / REST

Run ./run.sh --remote to start.

CVEDIA-RT will be accessible via REST API on port 8080

Remote UI

As of 2022.11.0 release you can run CVEDIA-RT in remote GUI mode. To run in this mode you don't need to install a window manager nor x11.

Please check Remote UI for more info.

Running options

There's several ways to run CVEDIA-RT, please refeer to Running Options for all available options.

Solutions and persistence

When running CVEDIA-RT within docker, changes on solutions are ephemeral, if you want to make your solution changes persist, please check solution persistence.

Native

CVEDIA-RT can run natively on linux. This deployment is experimental and may require you to install additional packages manually.

The main difference between this and the docker version is that the native will require additional supporting services (such as mqtt) and libraries (such as cuda, gstreamer, hailo, opencv) to be pre installed for it to work properly. This may also means if you don't have inference libraries installed or compatible with CVEDIA-RT, it will fallback to slow CPU inference.

This native install comes bundled with several static libraries that will not affect anything you may have installed locally.

Hard paths

The native install will be placed at a fixed path: /opt/cvedia-rt which will potentially overwrite any files you may have there.

To install:

  1. Install the deb package you downloaded: dpkg -i <filename.deb>
  2. Install any potential missing dependencies apt install -f

CVEDIA-RT deb package will add a few binaries to your path (/usr/bin):

  • cvediart
  • listnndevices
  • benchmark:
  • modelforge
  • runinference
  • runinstance

Upgrading

CVEDIA don't yet provide a public package repository, however you can simply run a dpkg -i <filename>.deb to upgrade any existing packages

Uninstalling

You can uninstall using the package manager apt remove cvedia-rt

Configuring

The native version port and services configuration relay in /opt/cvedia-rt/global.config

Running with GUI

Just call cvediart, a window will show up.

Running Headless / REST

Run cvediart --remote to start.

CVEDIA-RT will be accessible via REST API on port 8080

Remote UI

As of 2022.11.0 release you can run CVEDIA-RT in remote GUI mode. To run in this mode you don't need to install a window manager nor x11.

Please check Remote UI for more info.

Running options

There's several ways to run CVEDIA-RT, please refeer to Running Options for all available options.

Troubleshooting

If you're running in GUI mode and CVEDIA-RT crashes with FATAL [..] [glfwui.cpp:68] glfwCreateWindow .., you can try:

  • On windows: CVEDIA-RT.bat --dx11
  • On windows: CVEDIA-RT.bat --glfw
  • On windows: CVEDIA-RT.bat --sdl
  • On linux with docker: ./run.sh --gl 0
  • On linux native: cvediart --sdl
  • On linux native: cvediart --glfw

If none of this options work, you can still run without UI then connect from a different machine using Remote UI:

  • On windows: CVEDIA-RT.bat --remote
  • On linux with docker: ./run.sh --remote
  • On linux native: cvediart --remote

On linux CVEDIA-RT might fail to start if your desktop resolution is smaller than 1280x720.

If you don't have a graphical interface or cannot run in this resolution, you can run headless with Remote UI (./run.sh --remote on docker, or cvediart --remote natively)


If you're having issues after the application has started, logs are automatically saved under the log folder. Each session of CVEDIA-RT will create a new log entry in that folder, to submit support requests get the most recent log from that folder.


On linux for startup errors within docker, we recommend running test.sh, this will create a detailed log of system capabilities which can then be used to submit support requests to our team.


For any other questions and inquiries, check the support page.


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