John C. Tull jctull

How-To: Frigate on Apple Container with Apple Silicon NPU

This guide explains how to install Frigate 0.17 on Mac with Apple Silicon using Apple Container (native alternative to Docker) with detection via the Neural Engine.

Prerequisites

Mac with Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3/M4)
macOS 15+ (Sequoia) with Apple Container CLI
Python 3.11+
RTSP-compatible cameras

Building GDAL 1.9.x with ESRI FileGDB support on OS X Lion

Download the SDK from ESRI's website http://resources.arcgis.com/content/geodatabases/10.0/file-gdb-api
Extract the SDK, and put the contents of the directory in a known location, I used ~/local/filegdb. Here's an example path to one of the files: ~/local/filegdb/lib/libFileGDBAPI.dylib
I use ~/local/filegdb so it can stay isolated in it's own place. You can put it anywhere, but the next few steps might be different.
Go into the directory containing the FileGDB SDK, e.g. ~/local/filegdb
ESRI built these dylib's using @rpath's, so to avoid needing to mess with DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH, I updated the @rpath's using install_name_tool. There might be a more elegant way to handle this. If so, comments are welcome!
Here are the commands I used to patch the dylibs, this is not required if you want to use DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH yourself:

	Steps to install and run PostgreSQL 9.2 using Homebrew (Mac OS X)
	(if you aren't using version 9.1.5, change line 6 with the correct version)

	1. launchctl unload -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.postgresql.plist
	2. mv /usr/local/var/postgres /usr/local/var/postgres91
	3. brew update
	4. brew upgrade postgresql
	5. initdb /usr/local/var/postgres -E utf8
	6. pg_upgrade -b /usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.1.5/bin -B /usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.2.0/bin -d /usr/local/var/postgres91 -D /usr/local/var/postgres
	7. cp /usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.2.0/homebrew.mxcl.postgresql.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents/