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Physically Disconnecting the Speaker and Microphone on the Wyzecam V3
The Wyzecam v3 comes with some great features – namely the $20 price tag and excellent starlight sensor. It also comes with a microphone and speaker – both of which have their downsides. For those that wish to disconnect them (say, for privacy reasons) — and don’t fully trust the software “disable” — one can…
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Comparison of Wyzev3 Sensor vs RPi IMX327
One of the best low-light sensors for the raspberry pi is the Sony IMX327 (available here: https://www.inno-maker.com/product/mipi-cam-327/ for around $90). The wyzev3 offers similar starlight performance for $20 – a fraction of the cost. But how do they compare? As can be seen, both images capture all the overall scene well. The white balance of…
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HA MQTT Auto Discovery
As described on their official MQTT Auto Discovery page, Home Assistant allows one to create sensors on the fly. This is particularly important if you are, say, trying to add some non-trivial number of devices that speak MQTT. I saw a lot of posts about people struggling to get this working. I too had a…
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Architecture For DIY AI-Driven Home Security
The raspberry pi’s ecosystem makes it a tempting platform for building computer vision projects such as home security systems. For around $80, one can assemble a pi (with sd card, camera, case, and power) that can capture video and suppress dead scenes using motion detection – typically with motion or MotionEye. This low-effort, low-cost solution…
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Why a Tesla Model Y Is The Best Car Ever
Lots of people have opinions. These are mine as to the supremecy of the model y: Purchase experience. In case the entire world has not clearly understood what the past 20 years has increasingly shown: people would rather order online in person. Let that sink in deeply if it causes you pause. Here’s how Tesla…
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Adding in Custom Indices to Elastiflow
Let’s say you have an elastiflow docker instance set up. This stack pushes all flow info into an index named “elastiflow-<version>-<Year>.<Month>.<Day>”. What if you wanted to use the same ELK stack for both elastiflow AND other stuff? This is possible, of course! Clone the elastiflow git repo Cd into the repo Add a new input…
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Armchair Deep Learning Enthusiast: Object Detection Tips #1
Recently I’ve been using the Tensorflow Object Detection API. Much of my approach follows material provided on pyimagesearch.com, this API allows us to perform. Rather than rehash that material, I just wanted to give a few pointers that I found helpful. Don’t limit yourself to the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition (ILSVRC) dataset. This dataset…