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ARM Installation

CVEDIA-RT can run on any ARMv8.0 and newer, ARMv7l is also supported, although some restrictions may apply.

To get the best performance make sure your CPU has asimd and / or neon instruction sets available / enabled.

Checking for neon

You can run cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep -i feat to see what features are enabled. You should see asimd or neon in that list.

This document covers the install in a generic arm device, we also support other arm based devices, such as Ambarella and NVIDIA Jetson.

Requirements

CVEDIA-RT will work with any Linux distro that can run dockers or with glibc 2.27 and newer.

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

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 --headless 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 --headless 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 (./run.sh --headless on docker, or cvediart --headless natively) or enable 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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