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 :)
Our parents adopted a cat a few years ago now, and they haven’t installed a cat flap yet because he’ll bring home a mouse, and they don’t want him to bring them inside the house. So for now, they’ve been opening and closing the door everytime (they’ve setup a little security cam at the door so they know when he comes back), which unfortunately involves opening the door in the middle of the night.
So I’ve been meaning to try and build a “smart” cat flap that utilizes image recognition to detest if he’s got a mouse in his mouth or not.
I had previously done a bit of research last year and gave up on it for some reason. Here’s to hoping I get a bit further down the road this time, and have some success lol.
Ooh Im a big fan of Ark. I used to live right in front of them, so they had become my main source of beens at that time. I’ve since started trying out more roasters, but have always been meaning to go back to them.
I have noticed that the daily threads seem to average alot less comments now compared to a few months ago. Do you have access to the trend on active users etc?
Has there been any discussions/thoughts around making these Daily Korero threads less frequent?, i.e., weekly, every other day etc.
There’s obviously not a ton of us in here, and some days (like today), there’s basically nothing here. Obviously there’s nothing stopping anyone replying to a thread from yesterdays Korero, but maybe it leads to a lack of visibility? i don’t know… Just spitting out some ideas :)
Hmm that’s pretty interesting. I’d always assumed (I guess they were talking about reliability alot when SSD’s became widely distributed) that they were a lot more robust.
I literally have no knowledge in this stuff. Once you have something like this setup, how does it work? Once you configure it, does it automatically backup files in a certain location on your computer?, or do you manually move files onto it that you want to backup?
Is failure in SSD’s more common than HDD’s? Ideally I’d want to use it as my “offline” storage option, using it instead of my current external HDD that I use.
Yeah - I’d only seen a post on his Instagram at the time, but starting watching the Youtube video today whilst prepping for dinner lol. Havent yet finished the video though.
Do you have any recommendations as to what you might look at?