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Better on-device identification of objects and motion would be useful. I care more about a person standing on my porch than I do the neighbor's cat. Better lo

by ssl-3 2y ago

Better on-device identification of objects and motion would be useful. I care more about a person standing on my porch than I do the neighbor's cat. Better local integration would also be useful. (Axis cameras have supported writing (and recycling) video on a local SMB share for a very long time, with nothing special required on the back end -- but they're not consumer products). Improved image quality would also be useful. There always seems to be a certain softness and definite lack of fluidity in consumer cameras that has been solved in things like cheap smartphones and GoPros for a over a decade. Tight integration with local home automation systems like Home Assistant would be great, so I can observe and control all of the things from a central point using my pocket supercomputer. But otherwise: If all one wants from a camera is for it to take OK-ish pictures and send them down the pipe, then that's a reasonably-solved problem.

mv4 2y ago
Other than Home Assistant, do you feel integrating with Apple Home and/or SmartThings ecosystem would be valuable?
- ssl-3 2y ago
  I guess that depends on who's asking, and what kind of response they want. At home, I don't use Apple Home or SmartThings. It is unlikely that I ever will. I own an iPad that I use every day and my phone is a Samsung, but I already have already adopted enough ecosystems with Google Home, Alexa, and Home Assistant, and I'm working on minimizing or eliminating two of those because they're clown-based. But I am a geek that likes to tinker with electronics and software. I recognize that I am an outlier. But I will cheerfully pay extra for stuff that Just Works with Home Assistant without using the clown, and that would probably apply to cameras as well.
  - mv4 2y ago
    It sounds like the space is already fragmented (with multiple ecosystems competing for your devices and attention). We will look into Home Assistant compatibility.
_glass 2y ago
This is really one of the use cases of TinyML. On-device ML to detect motion, etc. As microcontrollers are getting more powerful, more and more is possible. Just look at https://www.tensorflow.org/lite/microcontrollers https://www.tensorflow.org/lite/microcontrollers

by ssl-3 2y ago

mv4 2y ago

Other than Home Assistant, do you feel integrating with Apple Home and/or SmartThings ecosystem would be valuable?

ssl-3 2y ago
I guess that depends on who's asking, and what kind of response they want. At home, I don't use Apple Home or SmartThings. It is unlikely that I ever will. I own an iPad that I use every day and my phone is a Samsung, but I already have already adopted enough ecosystems with Google Home, Alexa, and Home Assistant, and I'm working on minimizing or eliminating two of those because they're clown-based. But I am a geek that likes to tinker with electronics and software. I recognize that I am an outlier. But I will cheerfully pay extra for stuff that Just Works with Home Assistant without using the clown, and that would probably apply to cameras as well.
- mv4 2y ago
  It sounds like the space is already fragmented (with multiple ecosystems competing for your devices and attention). We will look into Home Assistant compatibility.

_glass 2y ago

This is really one of the use cases of TinyML. On-device ML to detect motion, etc. As microcontrollers are getting more powerful, more and more is possible. Just look at https://www.tensorflow.org/lite/microcontrollers https://www.tensorflow.org/lite/microcontrollers