You might also want to consider logging wi-fi contacts at doorway. I came across this article on Probemon using the Pi. Not exactly a blanket solution but this could be usefully integrated with other things in order to generate access tokens and trigger recording events. https://null-byte.wonderhowto.com/how-to/log-wi-fi-probe-requests-from-smart... Russell On Tue, Apr 16, 2019, 12:08 PM Karen Lewellen via talk, <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
This though is why the notification aspect is so important. If the setup tracks who entres my front door, I am more concerned about who might be coming in then who is outside, and sends me a notification then I know if I need have the images reviewed. If there is face recognition, i. e. so i do not set off the event myself that is a plus, but because I live alone and am supposed to be told with 24 hours notice if another needs to be here, anyone walking through my door without me with them is a possible problem. I do not need to see the video myself, just know that video has been captured of a specific type of information. If an event is triggered and I know of the appointment, again I can skip the notification. Part of why the raspberry pi idea seemed so appealing is that once configured it does that very thing, without being very large it watches the area and send me an e-mail, or a voice mail that something has been captured...then I can do the rest. Does that make more sense? at most I am spending a little money gathering the tools and perhaps paying a tech for the setup. In the end though I have a way to know if anyone is entering my home without permission with pictures for the authorities. Kare
On Tue, 16 Apr 2019, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
I think many of the respondents are giving answers without an important piece of the puzzle.
Karen: I seem to remember that your vision is quite limited. Would you be able to get anything out of the playback of a video?
If you cannot view a video directly, I don't think that any of the proposals would be of much use.
Some thoughts (but note that I have no particular expertise in this area):
- recordings *inside* you front door would reduce the false positives. In other words, recordings would be limited to someone who actually came inside.
Bonus points: an outside recording that could be retroactively examined, (by someone else) once "something of interest" were detected inside.
- recordings should include sound since that would be something you could examine yourself. You could develop the habit of saying "I'm home" to mark recordings of yourself.
- AI is getting better. Some day it will recognize people sufficiently well to do some of this for you. But I don't know that we're there yet.
- There is an AI gold rush now. Perhaps some startup could be interested in your problem as an untapped market. But that's a long way from a simple off-the-shelf solution.
- I imagine that most systems ignore the accessibility features you need. An Open Source solution might make it easier to hack in code to make at least the logs accessible.
- Some home alarm companies might have solutions for you where they do the monitoring remotely. I've not asked. But that would compromise your privacy and might be expensive.
I don't imagine that there is a simple affordable security solution. Other than getting a dog (they have native intelligence).
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