Hi everyone,
I’m currently working on a project with the Hailo-8, and I’m wondering if there are any alternative ways to send data from my hardware to the Hailo. So far, I’ve only found support for VStreams, and I couldn’t find any alternatives.
Is it possible, for example, to preload images into memory that’s directly accessible to the Hailo accelerator, or is the only supported method to load the data into the CPU (e.g. using NumPy) and then send it via VStream to the Hailo board?
Welcome to the Hailo Community!
You can access the Hailo device only trough the HailoRT APIs.
In basically all cases some pre-processing (scaling, cropping, color format conversions, tilling, normalization) is required before data can be send to a model, so simply sending some images would not work.
Maybe our Application Code Examples will useful for you:
Thank you for your reply Klaus 
After my research I noticed that currently only HailoRT API is supported. I see there is an option to use DMA buffer but it’s not currently supported. Either way thank you very much.