Native support for Apple’s new M1 processor
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[email protected] - Posts: 2
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Native support for Apple’s new M1 processor
With Apple’s big news of the day being several new Macs running on their M1 processor, I find myself wanting to put one of them to use as a Sighthound system. Is native support for the M1 on Sighthound’s roadmap? If so, when will it be available?
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JesseS - Posts: 31
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Re: Native support for Apple’s new M1 processor
What he said +1
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arnljot - Posts: 20
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Re: Native support for Apple’s new M1 processor
+1 here! This is, to be honest, a dealbreaker. Securityspy is launching this now. I never fancied Secspy because of poor motion detection. This is what made me purchase Sighthound.
However; if my chickens continue to be identified as people, and snow as cars, well........ bye,bye
Also: Securityspy is launching new version with Homekit integration!!! Might also make me jump ship.
Please say something to make me stay: I have been a loyal customer for a while now, and would like to still be
However; if my chickens continue to be identified as people, and snow as cars, well........ bye,bye
Also: Securityspy is launching new version with Homekit integration!!! Might also make me jump ship.
Please say something to make me stay: I have been a loyal customer for a while now, and would like to still be
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arnljot - Posts: 20
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Re: Native support for Apple’s new M1 processor
Any response from staff on this?
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Neurobit - Posts: 30
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Re: Native support for Apple’s new M1 processor
Never mind M1 support which would be nice. How about support for Big Sur?
C’mon, this isn’t new guys. It has been available in beta since the summer...
C’mon, this isn’t new guys. It has been available in beta since the summer...
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FKemp - Posts: 1
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Re: Native support for Apple’s new M1 processor
Did the developers respond to the M1 support question? Debating moving to Sighthound, but it's a big issue for me. I don't want to switch from Apple's ecosystem because I work for prothesiswriter.com and I've set up a good workflow for writing.
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Neurobit - Posts: 30
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Re: Native support for Apple’s new M1 processor
No updates as far as I've seen. They're supposed to be releasing a beta to make Big Sur work, but even that's not out yet, so I would imagine once they get that to work, they'll get started on Apple silicon support. I don' care right now. In the same boat. Just want to test it on the M1 with Rosetta.
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kgonzalez - Posts: 56
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Re: Native support for Apple’s new M1 processor
Hi,
Currently, there are no immediate plans to have Sighthound Video run natively on the Apple silicone. It is something we will consider in the future, but again we don't any immediate plans.
Take care,
Kenneth
Currently, there are no immediate plans to have Sighthound Video run natively on the Apple silicone. It is something we will consider in the future, but again we don't any immediate plans.
Take care,
Kenneth
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visionik - Posts: 48
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Re: Native support for Apple’s new M1 processor
Hi, a few things on this.
I have run Sighthound Video 7 on my M1 MacBook Air. Performance is quite impressive even when running Sighthound with Rosetta 2 (install-time translation of Intel code to Apple M1).
There are three things that stand between today and native Sighthound Video M1 support:
1. Since Sighthound Video 6 we made extensive improvements to make Sighthound Video fast on Intel processors. For M1 that work needs to be completely redone (while also maintaining our Intel optimizations for other platforms).
2. In Sighthound Video 7 we added GPU support on Windows, to do that on Mac we need to support an API called METAL. That work is now starting. Let's say it's done in SV 7.5 (no promises). The end result will be that the performance of "Intel" SV 7 running with Rosetta 2 + native Apple METAL support will be much faster than any release of Sighthound Video on Mac ever was. We might get single-digit % faster when we add native M1 at that point, maybe. Why is this? Because most of the "hard work" of Sighthound Video will be running natively on the M1 GPU at that point, not the M1 CPU.
3. Sighthound Video is written in Python 2.x, which apple doesn't support on Big Sur. We had to create a custom Intel build of Python and work around several Big Sur bugs to make Sighthound Video 7 work on Big Sur. This was a pain in the ___ and ate up almost all of the development time we had committed for the 7.0 release.
We really don't want to do a custom build of Python 2.x for M1. So what are our options to get native M1 support: a) Port 100% of the code to Python 3, which doesn't make sense as all of our new apps are written in TypeScript, or b) Transition Sighthound Video from Python to TypeScript. "B" has been our plan for over a year now. The good news is we are staying focused on that plan as it is in the short and long term best interests of *all* Sighthound Video users.
Unfortunately this does mean native M1 support is likely at least a year away. In the meantime, as I said, from my experience todays Sighthound Video performance on M1 is quite good, and when our METAL support is done, it will really make the added performance improvements from native M1 support relatively small.
Best,
-Jonathan Taylor (Sighthound Co-Founder and Chairman)
I have run Sighthound Video 7 on my M1 MacBook Air. Performance is quite impressive even when running Sighthound with Rosetta 2 (install-time translation of Intel code to Apple M1).
There are three things that stand between today and native Sighthound Video M1 support:
1. Since Sighthound Video 6 we made extensive improvements to make Sighthound Video fast on Intel processors. For M1 that work needs to be completely redone (while also maintaining our Intel optimizations for other platforms).
2. In Sighthound Video 7 we added GPU support on Windows, to do that on Mac we need to support an API called METAL. That work is now starting. Let's say it's done in SV 7.5 (no promises). The end result will be that the performance of "Intel" SV 7 running with Rosetta 2 + native Apple METAL support will be much faster than any release of Sighthound Video on Mac ever was. We might get single-digit % faster when we add native M1 at that point, maybe. Why is this? Because most of the "hard work" of Sighthound Video will be running natively on the M1 GPU at that point, not the M1 CPU.
3. Sighthound Video is written in Python 2.x, which apple doesn't support on Big Sur. We had to create a custom Intel build of Python and work around several Big Sur bugs to make Sighthound Video 7 work on Big Sur. This was a pain in the ___ and ate up almost all of the development time we had committed for the 7.0 release.
We really don't want to do a custom build of Python 2.x for M1. So what are our options to get native M1 support: a) Port 100% of the code to Python 3, which doesn't make sense as all of our new apps are written in TypeScript, or b) Transition Sighthound Video from Python to TypeScript. "B" has been our plan for over a year now. The good news is we are staying focused on that plan as it is in the short and long term best interests of *all* Sighthound Video users.
Unfortunately this does mean native M1 support is likely at least a year away. In the meantime, as I said, from my experience todays Sighthound Video performance on M1 is quite good, and when our METAL support is done, it will really make the added performance improvements from native M1 support relatively small.
Best,
-Jonathan Taylor (Sighthound Co-Founder and Chairman)