Advice The Home Improvement/Automation Thread

i assume you have community applications installed.

Get GPU Statistics up and running as a first step

Done. Where is the UI for this? :lol:
 
it just shows up as a panel on the main page. down below cpu stats on the lefthand column
Got it. And I've got Frigate setup with my Wyze cam. I see the ffmpeg process in nvidia-smi, but it isn't detecting any events. Same problem as I had before.

Code:
mqtt:
  host: 192.168.1.3
  user: *
  password: *
cameras:
  back:
    ffmpeg:
      input_args:
        - -c:v
        - h264_cuvid
      inputs:
        - path: rtsp://*:*@192.168.1.190/live
          roles:
            - detect
            - rtmp
    detect:
      width: 1920
      height: 1080

edit: I've verified that resolution and codec are correct. I have video, just no detection.

edit2: I stand sorta corrected. In the Frigate UI, if I click the camera, I see that it detected a person. But nothing shows in Events.
 
Got it. And I've got Frigate setup with my Wyze cam. I see the ffmpeg process in nvidia-smi, but it isn't detecting any events. Same problem as I had before.

Code:
mqtt:
  host: 192.168.1.3
  user: *
  password: *
cameras:
  back:
    ffmpeg:
      input_args:
        - -c:v
        - h264_cuvid
      inputs:
        - path: rtsp://*:*@192.168.1.190/live
          roles:
            - detect
            - rtmp
    detect:
      width: 1920
      height: 1080

edit: I've verified that resolution and codec are correct. I have video, just no detection.

edit2: I stand sorta corrected. In the Frigate UI, if I click the camera, I see that it detected a person. But nothing shows in Events.

See my mods to your config.yml. I think you need fps.

Code:
mqtt:
  host: 192.168.1.3
  user: *
  password: *
cameras:
  back:
    ffmpeg:
      input_args:
        - -c:v
        - h264_cuvid
      inputs:
        - path: rtsp://*:*@192.168.1.190/live
          roles:
            - detect
            - rtmp
    detect:
      width: 1920
      height: 1080
      fps: INSERT
 
you also currently have no detectors setup.

Code:
detectors:
  cpu1:
    type: cpu
    num_threads: 3
  cpu2:
    type: cpu
    num_threads: 3
 
What FPS do I want? And should the detectors really be CPU?
do you have a coral? If you dont, they need to be cpu until you get one.

5 is ideal, but your camera has to put out that, and I dont think the wyze does. I forget what FPS options it has.
 
@gee, I might need your engineer help here. Anyone else is obviously welcome to chime in...

We have an automated outdoor cat feeder. Amazingly, the racoons have never figured it out, but they still occasionally hear it go off and stop by. I'd love to come up with some sort of non-toxic spray that we can hit manually via an automation to scare them off. Nothing that would hurt them, and nothing that could be toxic to the cat food right there.

Y'all got any ideas? If it matters, we do have power right there.
 
@gee, I might need your engineer help here. Anyone else is obviously welcome to chime in...

We have an automated outdoor cat feeder. Amazingly, the racoons have never figured it out, but they still occasionally hear it go off and stop by. I'd love to come up with some sort of non-toxic spray that we can hit manually via an automation to scare them off. Nothing that would hurt them, and nothing that could be toxic to the cat food right there.

Y'all got any ideas? If it matters, we do have power right there.
How you gonna target a raccoon but not target cats?

a motion sensor water sprayer is the solution here.... but it wont distinguish a cat from a raccoon
 
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If you've got water nearby, water solenoid + garden hose nozzle could give you a nice remote control water cannon.
hmmm, I do, but I'm concerned about leaving the water on all the time. And I don't want the food to get wet.

And @Domon, this would be manual. We have a camera right there as well.
 
hmmm, I do, but I'm concerned about leaving the water on all the time. And I don't want the food to get wet.

And @Domon, this would be manual. We have a camera right there as well.
in that case, just hook it into your irrigation, make your irrigation smart, and control that "zone".

If you wanna do it from a hose, just get a bhyve hose end controller. Theres a great bhyve integration for HA
 
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