Request FP16 TensorRT engine for ONNX detector with device Tensorrt (#24923)

* Request FP16 TensorRT engine for ONNX detector with device Tensorrt

get_ort_providers only enables trt_fp16_enable when requires_fp16 is
passed, and the ONNX detector never passed it, so device: Tensorrt
always built an FP32 engine. USE_FP16=False still disables FP16.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Make TensorRT FP16 opt-in via USE_FP16 only

Drop the unused requires_fp16 parameter from get_ort_providers and decide
trt_fp16_enable from the USE_FP16 environment variable alone, defaulting
to false. Revert the ONNX detector change and document USE_FP16=true for
device: Tensorrt.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Drop the TensorRT docs line

The stock image ships only the TensorRT runtime, not the builder
libraries needed to create engines, so the instructions were misleading.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

frigate/test/test_runner_devices.py

@@ -321,6 +321,36 @@ class TestLighterANE(unittest.TestCase):
         ane.assert_not_called()
 
 
+class TestTensorRTProvider(unittest.TestCase):
+    def _trt_options(self, env):
+        with (
+            patch.object(
+                model_util.ort,
+                "get_available_providers",
+                return_value=["TensorrtExecutionProvider", "CPUExecutionProvider"],
+            ),
+            patch.object(model_util.os, "makedirs"),
+            patch.dict(os.environ, env, clear=False),
+        ):
+            if "USE_FP16" not in env:
+                os.environ.pop("USE_FP16", None)
+            providers, options = model_util.get_ort_providers(device="Tensorrt")
+
+        return options[providers.index("TensorrtExecutionProvider")]
+
+    def test_fp16_is_disabled_by_default(self):
+        self.assertFalse(self._trt_options({})["trt_fp16_enable"])
+
+    def test_use_fp16_enables_fp16(self):
+        for value in ("true", "True", "TRUE"):
+            with self.subTest(value=value):
+                options = self._trt_options({"USE_FP16": value})
+                self.assertTrue(options["trt_fp16_enable"])
+
+    def test_use_fp16_false_keeps_fp16_disabled(self):
+        self.assertFalse(self._trt_options({"USE_FP16": "False"})["trt_fp16_enable"])
+
+
 class TestMIGraphX(unittest.TestCase):
     """AMD's MIGraphX plugin provider, selected through its devices in the ROCm image."""
 

frigate/util/model.py

@@ -318,7 +318,6 @@ def post_process_yolox(
 def get_ort_providers(
     force_cpu: bool = False,
     device: str | None = "AUTO",
-    requires_fp16: bool = False,
 ) -> tuple[list[str], list[dict[str, Any]]]:
     if force_cpu:
         return (
@@ -357,8 +356,8 @@ def get_ort_providers(
                 options.append(
                     {
                         "device_id": device_id,
-                        "trt_fp16_enable": requires_fp16
-                        and os.environ.get("USE_FP16", "True") != "False",
+                        "trt_fp16_enable": os.environ.get("USE_FP16", "False").lower()
+                        == "true",
                         "trt_timing_cache_enable": True,
                         "trt_engine_cache_enable": True,
                         "trt_timing_cache_path": os.path.join(