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PCIe M.2 adapters (piefed.ca)
submitted 14 hours ago by GreatBlueHeron@piefed.ca to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
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This isn't specifically Home Assistant, but so many people seem to be using Frigate with Home Assistant it feels close enough.

I recently got my first camera. I tried ZoneMinder for a while, but have given up - just overwhelmed with false positives for fog, rain, insects etc. and not being able to tune them out. Most people seem to be going Frigate so I'll give that a go.

I don't really want to use a USB TPU (no real reason) and my current server has no Mini PCIe or M.2 slots. I recall seeing people say they had bad experiences with PCIe M.2 adapters.

Does anyone here have any experience to share about any specific adapter?

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[โ€“] xylol@leminal.space 3 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

I use a ton of pcie adapters at work, but not really sure what you are doing? Pcie to m.2? Almost all the ones I've used off of amazon have worked fine except a sabrent one, it worked fine for a m.2 drive to have an os but when I used it for testing drives it didn't work, it also took up a whole x16 slot for no raisin

We use ones that look like this

[โ€“] GreatBlueHeron@piefed.ca 3 points 12 hours ago

but not really sure what you are doing?

I want to install one of these in a machine that doesn't have an M.2 slot.

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