Honestly I just started thinking about this again yesterday so I basically know nothing lol. Though i did come across frigate, and it did make me want to try and setup a local home security system (as I've been meaning to get away from using a wireless one from one of the big manufacturers of such things).

I've been doing a bit of a dive into something called YOLOv8, which seems to be an object detection model, where you can use existing models, or train your own. Utilizing that on maybe a RPi 5 with a camera and a Google Coral (which from my understanding, supercharges your hardware's ability to process such things), and then using the output from the model somehow to control some type of actuation (electromagnet maybe?) to lock or unlock a catflap.

But I think the hardware is a bit hard to track down

Yeah I think from memory, one of the main reasons I had abandoned it last time I looked was that it was so hard to get the relevant hardware. Having a look again, it seems that most things are quite readily available now :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I’ve been doing a bit of a dive into something called YOLOv8

Not knowing what it is, I'm not sure if using software called YOLO is advisable 😆

it seems that most things are quite readily available now :)

Oh man, don't tell me that, now I'll have to do it!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Haha. Though seeing as their on their 8th YOLO adventure (different versions are actually built by different people it seems), maybe they have a method to their YOLOing madness😆

Oh man, don't tell me that, now I'll have to do it!

You definitely shouldn't visit mouser.com then hahaha 😆

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oh man, there seems to be ample stock!

Any suggestions for a camera? I don't have any at the moment. One that doesn't expose itself to the internet would be nice 😆

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I've only been looking at the Raspberry Cams for the moment, as my thinking was that I wanted to keep all the components as compatible as possible to make my life easier.

Though for security cameras, maybe @[email protected] would have better knowledge around what is good out there?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't know much about rPi specific models. For outdoor security cams I always go wired with PoE IP cams that at least have an RTSP stream, that way most standalone NVR software can work with them.

Not a fan of wireless/battery security cameras. I do have one wireless indoor cam, but it's only to check on the toddler when she's sleeping, it doesn't record so no constant stream of data. I think I'm using a cheapie Amcrest out front, I haven't really looked at cameras in awhile. Dahua's are often recommended on places like ipcamtalk.com, but you need to look at specific models as there are a lot of them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Did a quick look on some forums and did see a lot of mentions of Dahua. I'll hopefully move to a a Poe setup in the near future.