Taking Orange Pi Ai Stick instead of Coral

[derrodi]

Since it is not possible to get an Coral i found on Ali the Orange Pi Ai Stick. Would it be possible to take this on instead of a coral usb stick?

[blakeblackshear]

Based on a quick review, no. It would need to support tensorflow lite similar to the way the Coral does.

[rpatel3001]

It appears that tensorflow is supported: https://www.reddit.com/r/OrangePI/comments/mywc0d/comment/gw09jrs/

I have basically no idea how ML works, is the different chipset incompatible because it expects the model parameters in some different format?

[ozett]

https://www.cnx-software.com/2019/10/24/orange-pi-ai-stick-lite-neural-compute-stick-free-training-tools/

some discussion on that page how to get started ...

[blakeblackshear]

Doesn't say anything about tensorflow lite support

[ozett]

seems also not fluidly or well maintained... maybe some hints in the linux-SDK,
but Google-CORAL seems easier to maintain

[rpatel3001]

I'd love to use frigate, but it's pretty much impossible to get a reasonably priced coral, and I'm not sure how long it'll be until they're widely available again. If this seems like something that's possible but not a priority for the devs, I could buy a stick and hack away at it, but I'm not familiar with this codebase or ML/tensorflow at all. If it seems impossible or too difficult to maintain, no worries.

[ozett]

try these?

seems that the cheaper ones are mostly everywhere out of stock, (i just recently bought two at seeeds, but now out of stock)
i found only a german reseller with the cheaper ones out of stock, but the dual still sells...

[rpatel3001]

Pollin won't ship it to the US. Seeed allowed me to order a USB device on backorder but I doubt it'll go through.

[rpatel3001]

Snagged a dual m.2 card off rsdelivers.com, hopefully that works.