diff --git a/detect.py b/detect.py
index d4fed6b5..ec53c697 100644
--- a/detect.py
+++ b/detect.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ def detect(save_txt=False, save_img=False, stream_img=False):
     streams = 'streams' in source and source.endswith('.txt')
 
     # Initialize
-    device = torch_utils.select_device(force_cpu=ONNX_EXPORT)
+    device = torch_utils.select_device(device='cpu' if ONNX_EXPORT else opt.device)
     if os.path.exists(out):
         shutil.rmtree(out)  # delete output folder
     os.makedirs(out)  # make new output folder
@@ -141,6 +141,7 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
     parser.add_argument('--nms-thres', type=float, default=0.5, help='iou threshold for non-maximum suppression')
     parser.add_argument('--fourcc', type=str, default='mp4v', help='output video codec (verify ffmpeg support)')
     parser.add_argument('--half', action='store_true', help='half precision FP16 inference')
+    parser.add_argument('--device', default='', help='device id (i.e. 0 or 0,1) or cpu')
     opt = parser.parse_args()
     print(opt)
 
diff --git a/train.py b/train.py
index cb77f2d5..55e82af4 100644
--- a/train.py
+++ b/train.py
@@ -388,7 +388,7 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
     parser.add_argument('--arc', type=str, default='defaultpw', help='yolo architecture')  # defaultpw, uCE, uBCE
     parser.add_argument('--prebias', action='store_true', help='transfer-learn yolo biases prior to training')
     parser.add_argument('--name', default='', help='renames results.txt to results_name.txt if supplied')
-    parser.add_argument('--device', default='', help='select device if multi-gpu, i.e. 0 or 0,1')
+    parser.add_argument('--device', default='', help='device id (i.e. 0 or 0,1) or cpu')
     parser.add_argument('--adam', action='store_true', help='use adam optimizer')
     parser.add_argument('--var', type=float, help='debug variable')
     opt = parser.parse_args()
diff --git a/utils/torch_utils.py b/utils/torch_utils.py
index 4805c23b..6b4b2624 100644
--- a/utils/torch_utils.py
+++ b/utils/torch_utils.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import os
+
 import torch
 
 
@@ -14,9 +15,10 @@ def init_seeds(seed=0):
         torch.backends.cudnn.benchmark = False
 
 
-def select_device(device=None, force_cpu=False, apex=False):
-    # Set environment variable if device is specified
-    if device:
+def select_device(device=None, apex=False):
+    if device == 'cpu':
+        force_cpu = True
+    elif device:  # Set environment variable if device is specified
         os.environ['CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES'] = device
 
     # apex if mixed precision training https://github.com/NVIDIA/apex