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It is certainly more exciting than some of the stuff on Netflix!
I've bought a camera for the front of the house just off the back of this story. Not that anyone has put anything in my bins but I got caught up in the detective like excitement. Good work all round on identifying the culprit.
As a point of reference, a friend of mine has a camera on his cabin and pipes the feed to a web-based ML service that tries to ID the things going past it. He gets very excited when the AI correctly recognises a car and then claims his cat is a bird.
Yes, he does send the screenshots to me.
I've had one pointing at the street for a few years now, occasionally interesting when something happens. A few months back, there was a stabbing and the Police appealed for video footage of the assailants escaping on bike. They rode down our road (dead end) and then turned around and rode back. Gave the Police the footage to help build the timeline etc. Very easy - the Police gave an exact time of the incident a few streets away, so only had to check 10 mins worth of footage and there they were...
@willard I've been using that for a couple of years now, although fully local (not cloud/internet based) as part of my Home Assistant setup. It's really clever, and totally free which is amazing as it's probably better than any other (consumer) system that you could actually pay for! I also have facial recognition & ANPR set up on mine (get a notification on my Watch when someone it recognises walks up the driveway!)This website: https://frigate.video/Requires/uses a coral.ai with models to do the on-site AI part
All kinds of practical and fun uses (I mainly use it for fun stuff - automatically counting the number of eggs in the chicken coop, keeping a daily score chart of who makes the most tea, etc 😃) although at some stage I want to learn how to make my own AI models (it currently is not very good at identifying the actual chickens!) so it can alert me if we get a breakout 🐓 🤣