not a bug. Im a (docker) noob

Sorry I dont know where else to post this. Im a noob, struggling to get this set up as Im new to docker. I installed docker on my Pi 4. Now what? Against my better judgement I tried sudo docker run blakeblackshear/frigate:0.7.0-amd64

but that errors out with: exec user process caused “exec format error”

If someone feels like doing a video walking us through the installation (on a pi or linux or even windows), I would greatly appreciate it, and it might help draw some attention to this project, which seems awesome, but rather obscure still.

[mattheys]

I will address your questions at the bottom, but first I would like to say the following.

I would recommend looking at Docker Compose as a way of starting these, it makes it very easy to make changes to your container configuration without leaving a whole bunch of dangling containers, also I would install Portainer as well so you can easily see what is running and clean it up nice and easily.

I prefer to run it as a docker container itself but I haven’t documented that and there isn’t an official Arm(64) build for it either so google how to install it with Pip.

Create a folder to keep your docker-compose.yml file in e.g. /opt/docker Put something like this in it, sorry it might not be perfect but you can tweak till it works, I use /opt for docker configuration data and /mnt for data, this way I can just backup my /opt folder and redploy all my containers quickly with their original settings.

version: '3.7'

networks:
  internal:
    name: internal
    driver: bridge

services:
  portainer:
    container_name: portainer
    image: portainer/portainer
    ports:
      - 9000:9000
    volumes:
      - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
      - /opt/portainer:/data
    networks:
      - internal
    restart: always

  frigate:
    container_name: frigate
    image: blakeblackshear/frigate:0.7.1-aarch64
    privileged: true
    shm_size: '100m'
    networks:
      - internal
    devices:
      - /dev/bus/usb:/dev/bus/usb
    volumes:
      - /opt/frigate/config:/config
      - /dev/dri:/dev/dri
      - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
      - /mnt/frigate:/clips
      - type: tmpfs
        target: /cache
        tmpfs:
          size: 75000000 ## 75MB, good for 3 1080p cameras with 10s of cache each, this depends on your setup.
    ports:
      - 5000:5000
    restart: unless-stopped
    healthcheck:
      test: ["CMD", "wget" , "-q", "-O-", "http://localhost:5000"]
      interval: 30s
      timeout: 10s
      retries: 5
      start_period: 3m

Then from the folder containing your docker-compose file run docker-compose up -d --remove-orphans

Now, your assumption about the config file is correct.

I think it will fail over to cpu anyway so you can just leave it as it is.

The /clips and /cache in the config file is about overriding them if you need to, I wouldn’t worry about that and just mount the clips folder outside of the container.

[mattheys]

Your problem is the fact you are trying to run the AMD64 version on a Raspberry Pi which isn’t x86-64 but Arm based. You need to find out if you have a 32 or 64 bit os and pick either blakeblackshear/frigate:0.7.1-armv7 for 32 bit or blakeblackshear/frigate:0.7.1-aarch64 for 64bit. Your original command would have partly worked if you had the right version, but with no volumes, ports or devices mapped it wouldn’t work very well.