[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?