[JoBrad]

I find a security system that only lets me know when it’s been triggered useless. My wife set off our alarm the other day. I used an external webcam to verify that it was my wife, and disabled the alarm before she could put her things down and disable it herself. You can’t do that with a system that isn’t connected externally.

[est31]

External connection != external control.

Although with home security services, it's one of the areas where I think external control is advantageous because the best cameras don't help you when the thieves take the device that keeps the recordings with them.

[acidburnNSA]

> External connection != external control.

Exactly this. Even in security contexts, my Home Assistant-based security system is running fully-local object detection and runs automations when "Person" shows up in an unexpected place at an unexpected time. It emails me the offending image (thereby offloading from the camera) and records video locally. If it happens at night while I'm asleep it runs a sequence of turning lights on to scare them off and then wakes me up if it didn't work.

This is kind of a combo of local-only with a few pings to the outer world.

[oauea]

What software are you using for object detection? I'd like to extend my Home Assistant setup.

[acidburnNSA]

I made a custom component to integrate this object detection lib with pytorch.

https://github.com/ultralytics/yolov5

The tensorflow one it comes with didn't work on python 3.8 or on my gpu.

I should blog about it.

[ViViDboarder]

In case you do, what’s your blog so I can follow?

[JoBrad]

I plan on using HA for everything but the alarm system eventually. But I don’t know of a monitored system controlled by HA, do you?

[JoBrad]

My camera isn’t part of the alarm system (not sure I really want an alarm going off because of a camera). They are triggered by it, though.

[oauea]

Is there any reason the manufacturer couldn't have simply supplied an additional box you put in your home, that has all the storage and processing to do all that? The only thing the manufacturer would have to do is provide a dyndns-like service.