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This would be so useful if it could connect to a Nest video stream.

by ibdf 5y ago

mvoodarla 5y ago
Nest already provides some smart people / motion detection. I could definitely see personal home security use-cases if you're building something DIY. Curious as to why you might prefer a system like this over what Nest provides. Is it the more granular metadata?
- ibdf 5y ago
  Nest's person / motion detection is a joke. Every day it thinks I have a new package in front of the door - it literally gets it wrong 100% of the time. It sees a person wearing brown... it must be a package... sees a person sitting on the stoop next door... must be a package. When it actually sees the mailman carrying a box towards the door... it tells me nothing. I am sure the motion sensor is good for a backyard where there's little movement, but not for the front of the house where there's constant movement. I set up motion zones to let me know when there's someone in it, and it triggered every time when someone was caught in the camera, disregarding the zone set. I got so many false alerts each day that I had to turn it off. But honestly, I want more than what it offers that I cannot tap into... for instance... if someone is trying to break-into my house in the middle of the night I need a phone call or a way connect the camera to my alarm system. A simple phone notification won't wake me up. It would also be useful to review every time the camera saw a person in the middle of the night when it matters most... not during the day when dozens of people walk in front of it. I also need to be able to distinguish when it detects a person that's far away, like across the street, and someone who's right in-front of the camera, filling most of the frame.
  - blacksmith_tb 5y ago
    Wyze is not quite that bad for me, but it could use some work. It's very twitchy about motion (so lots of notifications on a windy day for waving branches and leaves), and lackluster on person/package detection. In both cases fine-tuning by setting only a portion of the field of view for monitoring did improve the hit/miss ratio quite a bit.
- bradknowles 5y ago
  Privacy. I don’t want anyone outside of my network seeing any of my videos. If I’m using a cloud provider, then I’ve already given that up. If I’m using a tool like Shinobi on personal streaming video cameras, then I don’t want to have to upload my video to your servers.

This would be so useful if it could connect to a Nest video stream.

by ibdf 5y ago

This would be so useful if it could connect to a Nest video stream.

Nest already provides some smart people / motion detection. I could definitely see personal home security use-cases if you're building something DIY. Curious as to why you might prefer a system like this over what Nest provides. Is it the more granular metadata?

ibdf 5y ago
Nest's person / motion detection is a joke. Every day it thinks I have a new package in front of the door - it literally gets it wrong 100% of the time. It sees a person wearing brown... it must be a package... sees a person sitting on the stoop next door... must be a package. When it actually sees the mailman carrying a box towards the door... it tells me nothing. I am sure the motion sensor is good for a backyard where there's little movement, but not for the front of the house where there's constant movement. I set up motion zones to let me know when there's someone in it, and it triggered every time when someone was caught in the camera, disregarding the zone set. I got so many false alerts each day that I had to turn it off. But honestly, I want more than what it offers that I cannot tap into... for instance... if someone is trying to break-into my house in the middle of the night I need a phone call or a way connect the camera to my alarm system. A simple phone notification won't wake me up. It would also be useful to review every time the camera saw a person in the middle of the night when it matters most... not during the day when dozens of people walk in front of it. I also need to be able to distinguish when it detects a person that's far away, like across the street, and someone who's right in-front of the camera, filling most of the frame.
- blacksmith_tb 5y ago
  Wyze is not quite that bad for me, but it could use some work. It's very twitchy about motion (so lots of notifications on a windy day for waving branches and leaves), and lackluster on person/package detection. In both cases fine-tuning by setting only a portion of the field of view for monitoring did improve the hit/miss ratio quite a bit.
bradknowles 5y ago
Privacy. I don’t want anyone outside of my network seeing any of my videos. If I’m using a cloud provider, then I’ve already given that up. If I’m using a tool like Shinobi on personal streaming video cameras, then I don’t want to have to upload my video to your servers.