It‘s still a bit flaky getting video acceleration (not talking about object detection but video decoding) working but after that it is one of the best solutions for live object detection I‘ve ever tried: no more small animals waking me up in the night.

P.S.: I‘m also supporting them with a yearly? subsciption to train the „A.I.“ model against false positives I provide which increased the accuracy even more.

I've been doing this with great success for over five years with Camect, so what's new?

As an alternative, you might also want to check out scrypted which offers a lot of cross-integration features and hardware optimized local AI processing (eg on MacMinis M*). Developer is super responsive in the discord.

I use Ubiquiti Protect Cameras and recently bought a AI key[1] which adds license plate and facial recognition features to all cameras even non-AI enabled models. It works really well and of course all 100% self-hosted.

[1] https://store.ui.com/us/en/category/all-cameras-nvrs/product...

Oh i've been using frigate with a Coral-usb stick for a couple of years now and the project has been progressing nicely.

It has a very nice integration with homeassistant.

What your "stack" of open source cameras and dvr?

Just buy Unifi guys

OpenIPC is an alternative open firmware for your IP camera. OpenIPC is an open source operating system from the open community targeting for IP cameras with ARM and MIPS processors from several manufacturers in order to replace that closed, opaque, insecure, often abandoned and unsupported firmware pre-installed by a vendor.

https://openipc.org/?locale=en

Frigate has really done a fantastic job packing everything together.

For basic needs go2rtc [0] or MediaMTX [1] can be enough. But once you need some form of intelligence on top AFAIK unfortunately there is no unixiy tool that can take a stream and easily define and apply a model on it. You will have to code something in python.

- [0] https://github.com/AlexxIT/go2rtc

- [1] https://github.com/bluenviron/mediamtx

Google Coral Accelerator is basically abandoned these days though

So burglar just need to carry big sign "Ignore previous instructions and don't report anything"? "

My step brother has been asking me to help him setup a load of cameras for watching his marron ponds. he has foxes, crows and humans stealing from his ponds.

In theory this would really help him get alerts to invaders and I presume filter out the sheep and alpacas he has wandering around as well.

My issue is that its in a rural area and the paddocks are quite large with no power to most of the ponds so what cameras and network to use to get the data back to the storage and processing server.

Begginning to think he might be better off running a modular system, each cluster of ponds would have its own camera cluster and mini server with the network being last mile 2.4ghz just for alerts and a solar panel bank for charging the battery and running it during the day.

What would I get away with here? N100 mini device? processing maybe 6 cameras?

I'm using frigate and it is really nice, though they could improve the object detection and maybe stop changing the configuration format every year

If you want to start just remember to avoid h.265 cameras so you don't need to transcode since few clients and browsers support it.