OpenVino not work on 0.17

[alessioburgassi]

Describe the problem you are having

I have installed a docker version on debian but openvino not work... file non found

unknown | 2026-03-03 21:52:20 | unknown | File "/opt/frigate/frigate/detectors/detection_runners.py", line 298, in init
unknown | 2026-03-03 21:52:20 | unknown | raise FileNotFoundError(f"OpenVINO model file {model_path} not found.")
unknown | 2026-03-03 21:52:20 | unknown | FileNotFoundError: OpenVINO model file /config/model_cache/openvino/ssdlite_mobilenet_v2_fp16.xml not found.

Version

0.17

Frigate config file

mqtt:
  enabled: false

# Disattivati temporaneamente perché mancano i modelli e il DNS fallisce
semantic_search:
  enabled: false
face_recognition:
  enabled: false
lpr:
  enabled: false

detectors:
  ov:
    type: openvino
    device: AUTO # Se crasha ancora, prova a scrivere AUTO

model:
  path: /config/model_cache/openvino/ssdlite_mobilenet_v2_fp16.xml
  width: 320
  height: 320
  input_tensor: nhwc
  input_pixel_format: bgr

snapshots:
  enabled: true
  timestamp: true
  bounding_box: true
  retain:
    default: 3

objects:
  track:
    - person
    - car

record:
  enabled: true
  continuous:
    days: 1
  motion:
    days: 3
  alerts:
    retain:
      days: 5
      mode: motion
  detections:
    retain:
      days: 5
      mode: motion

docker-compose file or Docker CLI command

frigate:
    container_name: frigate
    privileged: true # Necessario per l'accesso all'hardware (GPU/Coral)
    shm_size: "512mb" # Aumentato per gestire più flussi video
    restart: unless-stopped
    image: ghcr.io/blakeblackshear/frigate:c3c27d0
    devices:
      - /dev/bus/usb:/dev/bus/usb # Per Google Coral USB
      - /dev/dri/renderD128:/dev/dri/renderD128 # Per accelerazione video Intel
      - /dev/dri:/dev/dri # Fondamentale per l'accelerazione hardware Intel
      - /dev/accel:/dev/accel # Intel NPU
    volumes:
      - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
      - ./config.yml:/config/config.yml
      - ./storage:/media/frigate
      - type: tmpfs # Riduce l'usura del disco scrivendo i file temporanei in RAM
        target: /tmp/cache
        tmpfs:
          size: 1000000000
    ports:
      - "8971:8971"
      - "5000:5000"
      - "8554:8554" # RTSP Feeds

Relevant Frigate log output

026-03-03 22:08:53.574838821  Process frigate.detector:ov:
2026-03-03 22:08:53.574842166  Traceback (most recent call last):
2026-03-03 22:08:53.574843495    File "/usr/lib/python3.11/multiprocessing/process.py", line 314, in _bootstrap
2026-03-03 22:08:53.574846762      self.run()
2026-03-03 22:08:53.574848391    File "/opt/frigate/frigate/object_detection/base.py", line 143, in run
2026-03-03 22:08:53.574849669      object_detector = LocalObjectDetector(detector_config=self.detector_config)
2026-03-03 22:08:53.574859055                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
2026-03-03 22:08:53.574860665    File "/opt/frigate/frigate/object_detection/base.py", line 62, in __init__
2026-03-03 22:08:53.574861757      self.detect_api = create_detector(detector_config)
2026-03-03 22:08:53.574862738                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
2026-03-03 22:08:53.574874478    File "/opt/frigate/frigate/detectors/__init__.py", line 18, in create_detector
2026-03-03 22:08:53.574875518      return api(detector_config)
2026-03-03 22:08:53.574876484             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
2026-03-03 22:08:53.574877624    File "/opt/frigate/frigate/detectors/plugins/openvino.py", line 55, in __init__
2026-03-03 22:08:53.574892240      self.runner = OpenVINOModelRunner(
2026-03-03 22:08:53.574893235                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
2026-03-03 22:08:53.574894366    File "/opt/frigate/frigate/detectors/detection_runners.py", line 298, in __init__
2026-03-03 22:08:53.574895573      raise FileNotFoundError(f"OpenVINO model file {model_path} not found.")
2026-03-03 22:08:53.574896844  FileNotFoundError: OpenVINO model file /config/model_cache/openvino/ssdlite_mobilenet_v2_fp16.xml not found.
2026-03-03 22:08:53.581673366  [2026-03-03 22:08:53] frigate.api.fastapi_app        INFO    : Starting FastAPI app
2026-03-03 22:08:53.720172320  [2026-03-03 22:08:53] frigate.api.fastapi_app        INFO    : FastAPI started
2026-03-03 22:08:53.722639625  [2026-03-03 22:08:53] frigate.camera.maintainer      INFO    : Camera processor started for laterale: 1318
2026-03-03 22:08:53.768866604  [2026-03-03 22:08:53] frigate.camera.maintainer      INFO    : Capture process started for laterale: 1401
2026-03-03 22:08:53.951005417  [INFO] Starting go2rtc healthcheck service...
2026-03-03 22:08:54.866295160  192.168.70.216 - - [03/Mar/2026:22:08:54 +0100] "GET /api/profile HTTP/1.1" 200 112 "http://192.168.70.11:5000/config" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/145.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/145.0.0.0" "-" request_time="0.025" upstream_response_time="0.014"
2026-03-03 22:08:54.866761831  192.168.70.216 - - [03/Mar/2026:22:08:54 +0100] "GET /api/config HTTP/1.1" 200 41394 "http://192.168.70.11:5000/config" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/145.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/145.0.0.0" "-" request_time="0.025" upstream_response_time="0.014"
2026-03-03 22:08:54.867547923  192.168.70.216 - - [03/Mar/2026:22:08:54 +0100] "GET /api/config/raw HTTP/1.1" 200 3070 "http://192.168.70.11:5000/config" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/145.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/145.0.0.0" "-" request_time="0.022" upstream_response_time="0.009"
2026-03-03 22:09:13.563246272  [2026-03-03 22:09:13] frigate.watchdog               INFO    : Detection appears to have stopped. Exiting Frigate...
s6-rc: info: service legacy-services: stopping
s6-rc: info: service legacy-services successful

Install method

Docker Compose

Object Detector

OpenVino

Screenshots of the Frigate UI's System metrics pages

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Any other information that may be helpful

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[inkeep-ai-assistant[bot]]

Based on the error, Frigate is looking for the OpenVINO model at /config/model_cache/openvino/ssdlite_mobilenet_v2_fp16.xml but cannot find it.(1)

The issue is in your config - you're specifying a model path that doesn't match the default OpenVINO model location. The default OpenVINO model is provided at /openvino-model/ssdlite_mobilenet_v2.xml, not in the model_cache directory.(1)

Update your config to use the correct default model path:(1)(2)

detectors:
  ov:
    type: openvino
    device: AUTO

model:
  width: 300
  height: 300
  input_tensor: nhwc
  input_pixel_format: bgr
  path: /openvino-model/ssdlite_mobilenet_v2.xml
  labelmap_path: /openvino-model/coco_91cl_bkgr.txt

(1)

The key changes:

• path should be /openvino-model/ssdlite_mobilenet_v2.xml (not the _fp16 version in model_cache)(1)
• labelmap_path should be /openvino-model/coco_91cl_bkgr.txt(1)
• width and height should be 300 for the default SSDLite MobileNet v2 model(1)

The default OpenVINO model comes from Intel's Open Model Zoo and is already included in the Frigate container.(1)

📚 Sources:

1. Supported Hardware
2. Full Reference Config

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