HAOS bump Hailo PCIe driver and firmware to v4.23.0 or v5.1.0?

[Hedda]

Describe the feature

Wondering it it would be a good idea to bump the Hailo PCIe driver and firmware to v4.23.0 in Home Assistant Operating System?

• https://github.com/hailo-ai/hailort/releases

There also looks to be a newer Hailo PCIe driver and firmware v5.1.0 version out but I have no access to changelogs (registration required):

• https://hailo.ai/developer-zone/documentation/hailort/latest/?sp_referrer=changelog/changelog.html

  • https://hailo.ai/developer-zone/documentation/hailort-v5-0-1/

Use cases

Just a general driver and firmware update bump, no specific issues or problems to report.

Current version of Hailo PCIe driver and firmware is v4.21.0 which was bumped for the Home Assistant Operating System 16.0 release:

• https://github.com/home-assistant/operating-system/releases/tag/16.0

  • https://github.com/home-assistant/operating-system/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed+Hailo

    • Bump Hailo driver and firmware to v4.21.0 operating-system#4095
    • Fix Hailo v4.21.0 driver traces due to missing lock operating-system#4138

Current workarounds

No response

Anything else?

No response

[elfranne]

from https://github.com/hailo-ai/hailort

Note: The master branch supports only the Hailo-10 and Hailo-15 device families. For Hailo-8, Hailo-8R, and Hailo-8L devices, please use the hailo8 branch.

So we should not upgrade to v5. Hailo8 = v4, Hail10 = v5

[slavonnet]

I also have Hailo10 and I want it to work in my HA on Rasbary PI 5. How to do it?

It would be nice if she could help with Speech-to-Phahse and OpenWakeWord. And in the future, so that the model 8b can still be used with the calling tool

Maybe there is an open ISSUE where we will test the whole thing and monitor the changes?

[fluxkompensator]

I was able to get all this done in a single HA Addon, still testing locally but I'm able to use the Hailo10 as a whyoming whisper device! Though it is a clunky process on every kernel change the addon needs to recompile the kernel module (~15 minutes) but if you don't update haos very often it is fine, I can post the addon or instructions if you want, though I'm not sure if it makes sense cause maybe there would be a version bump in a few weeks.

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[10:17:06] INFO: halio init: bringing up the Hailo-10H chip

[halio-bringup] kernel=6.12.47-haos-raspi hrt=5.3.0 rpi_ref=stable_20250916
[halio-bringup] Installing HailoRT userspace from /share/halio/hailort_5.3.0_arm64.deb
[halio-bringup] Installing Python bindings from /share/halio/hailort-5.3.0-cp313-cp313-linux_aarch64.whl
[halio-bringup] Firmware already staged at /share/halio/hailo-firmware/hailo/hailo10h/
[halio-bringup] Cached module /share/halio/modules/6.12.47-haos-raspi/hailo1x_pci.ko matches running kernel — skipping build
[halio-bringup] Remounting /sys read-write
[halio-bringup] /sys is now rw
[halio-bringup] using /sys
[halio-bringup] Setting firmware_class.path = /mnt/data/supervisor/share/halio/hailo-firmware
[halio-bringup] current: /mnt/data/supervisor/share/halio/hailo-firmware
[halio-bringup] hailo1x_pci already loaded — skipping insmod
[halio-bringup] hailo1x major (from /proc/devices): 238
[halio-bringup] /dev/h1x-0 major 238 matches — keeping
[halio-bringup] 0001:01:00.0 already bound to hailo1x
[halio-bringup] PASS — device node present: /dev/h1x-0
crw------- 1 root root 238, 0 May 28 13:47 /dev/h1x-0
[halio-bringup] Smoke test: hailortcli fw-control identify
Executing on device: pci/0001:01:00.0
Identifying board
Control Protocol Version: 2
Firmware Version: 5.3.0 (release,app)
Logger Version: 0
Device Architecture: HAILO10H
[halio-bringup] Bring-up complete.
[10:17:24] INFO: halio init: done — chip is up
s6-rc: info: service init-halio successfully started
s6-rc: info: service halio-server: starting
s6-rc: info: service halio-server successfully started
s6-rc: info: service legacy-services: starting
[10:17:24] INFO: halio-server: starting FastAPI on :8000
s6-rc: info: service legacy-services successfully started
2026-05-29 10:17:25,168 INFO halio: halio FastAPI app initialized (model=qwen2_5_1b5, enable_llm=False, whisper_model=Whisper-Base)
INFO: Started server process [176]
INFO: Waiting for application startup.
2026-05-29 10:17:25,277 INFO halio: Opening shared Hailo VDevice (group_id=SHARED)
2026-05-29 10:17:25,360 INFO halio: Whisper probe Whisper-Base: window_seconds=0.64 shape=(1, 64, 512)
2026-05-29 10:17:25,360 INFO halio.whisper: Loading Whisper HEF: /share/halio/models/Whisper-Base.hef
2026-05-29 10:17:27,293 INFO halio.whisper: HailoWhisper ready (model=Whisper-Base)
2026-05-29 10:17:27,293 INFO halio: Whisper loaded: Whisper-Base
2026-05-29 10:17:27,293 INFO halio: LLM disabled (enable_llm=False)
2026-05-29 10:17:27,353 INFO halio: Wyoming server task started on :10300
2026-05-29 10:17:27,353 INFO server.wyoming_server: Wyoming server listening on tcp://0.0.0.0:10300 (program=halio-whisper, model=Whisper-Base, languages=['en'])
INFO: Application startup complete.
INFO: Uvicorn running on http://0.0.0.0:8000 (Press CTRL+C to quit)
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