Rekor Scout Windows vs Docker

[djmadfx]

I am currently running Rekor Scout in Windows. I noticed that the agent service crashes from time to time and plates are no longer recorded (momentary high CPU usage of other processes). I was wondering if anyone noticed if the Docker version ran better / more efficiently / more stable.

 

[wittaj]

If it is anything like their GPU version it will suck LOL.

Several of us tried to unload Rekor to the GPU and offloading it to the GPU increased CPU usage by 40% LOL. Was making it worse.

 

[djmadfx]

Yeah, I tried enabling GPU and it was horrible! Moving to Docker is my last hope.

 

[wittaj]

Several of us reached out to Rekor and they said that was normal behavior LOL.

 

[djmadfx]

I tried an instance on docker and it seemed to run like garbage. I'll keep it running on Windows. I ended up creating a batch script that checks to see if the OpenALPR Agent service is running. If it isn't then it starts it. I added it in the task scheduler and it runs every 3 minutes.

@echo off

set SERVICE_NAME="OpenALPR Agent"

sc query %SERVICE_NAME% | findstr /C:"RUNNING" > nul

if %ERRORLEVEL% NEQ 0 (
    echo The %SERVICE_NAME% service is not running.
    echo Starting the %SERVICE_NAME% service...
    net start %SERVICE_NAME%
    echo The %SERVICE_NAME% service has been started.
) else (
    echo The %SERVICE_NAME% service is running.
)

 

[djmadfx]

The script I use seems to help, but I do catch times where the service still fails to start for some reason.