Interesting use case! Could you share why you went with MING stack vs Home Assistant for over all automation and then exposing this information as a sensor within HA?
Personally I try not to use/need any dashboards. Grafana is fun for seeing pretty graphs but there's no real function to it for my home. In the part 2 video I show how I use Google Assistant for voice automation to check the door status. Maybe I'll try HA again at some point, I used it a long time ago and it was more hassle than it was worth then, I guess it left me with a bad taste also...
That makes sense. Personally I’m using HA with Zigbee2MQTT so I’ve got MQTT integrated in that way and can expose arbitrary information. I was using ESPPresnece which is using MQTT as its message broker and it worked pretty seamlessly. My home automation setup is at a higher level of abstraction because of lack of knowledge so anything outside of Pyscript for automation (which supports automation via MQTT triggers) I’m effectively treating this as a sysadmin. As the saying goes, it ain’t broke don’t fix it. Thanks for the answer!
What is happening if someone is walking in the kitchen in front of the door or some big object is blocking the view on the door? do you get an alert like "unknow state"?. Thanks and btw great project!
Thanks! yeah exactly that, if the detection model fails to find the item the state is set to -1 meaning unknown. Same with the classification model - if the detection model does find the object, but something is still blocking the clear view enough so that the classification model can't decide, it will also return an unknown state.
Interesting use case! Could you share why you went with MING stack vs Home Assistant for over all automation and then exposing this information as a sensor within HA?
Personally I try not to use/need any dashboards. Grafana is fun for seeing pretty graphs but there's no real function to it for my home. In the part 2 video I show how I use Google Assistant for voice automation to check the door status. Maybe I'll try HA again at some point, I used it a long time ago and it was more hassle than it was worth then, I guess it left me with a bad taste also...
That makes sense. Personally I’m using HA with Zigbee2MQTT so I’ve got MQTT integrated in that way and can expose arbitrary information. I was using ESPPresnece which is using MQTT as its message broker and it worked pretty seamlessly. My home automation setup is at a higher level of abstraction because of lack of knowledge so anything outside of Pyscript for automation (which supports automation via MQTT triggers) I’m effectively treating this as a sysadmin. As the saying goes, it ain’t broke don’t fix it. Thanks for the answer!
What is happening if someone is walking in the kitchen in front of the door or some big object is blocking the view on the door? do you get an alert like "unknow state"?. Thanks and btw great project!
Thanks! yeah exactly that, if the detection model fails to find the item the state is set to -1 meaning unknown. Same with the classification model - if the detection model does find the object, but something is still blocking the clear view enough so that the classification model can't decide, it will also return an unknown state.