AI Action trigger when a car is gone

McJohn
McJohn
in SecuritySpy

Hi Ben,

Big compliments for the AI integration in SecuritySpy. Very nice feature. We made a Trigger Action with a "run shell command" to change a Variable into the Indigo Home Automation software when a car is detected into a garage. Works flawless! Perfect!

Do you think if it's possible to make a Trigger action again when the car is gone?

(This is also useful for monitoring a car on the street)

Maybe SecuritySpy can compare images when a car is there or not?

Thanks for listening and keep on the good work!

All the best,

John

(McPartners)

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  • Ben
    Ben

    Hi John, many thanks for the compliments! Glad to hear this is working so well for you.

    There currently isn't a feature to initiate any kind of action when an object like a car is gone - only when its movement is detected. But, I think this would potentially be a nice idea for a future update, we'll see what we can do.

  • McJohn
    McJohn

    Thanks for the feedback Ben. After more than 35 years experience we can say that good software is always improving! 👍️

    John

  • jaharmi
    jaharmi

    I was just searching to figure out if there was a way to accomplish something like this. Motion could be used for vehicles entering or leaving a driveway, but knowing the status of stationary vehicles detected in the driveway is also useful.

    I tie SecuritySpy in with Home Assistant, so I was thinking of these scenarios in addition to the one from the OP:

    1. No cars are present in the driveway. HA knows no one is home. HA knows the garage door is open. After a delay, HA closes the garage door.
    2. HA knows someone is home. The driveway camera shows either all expected cars present or no cars present. HA could trigger some action / scene.
  • Ben
    Ben

    Hi @jaharmi we are thinking that this could potentially work via SecuritySpy's HomeKit implementation. You could use the HA HomeKit integration to make a HA accessory available to HomeKit (either a real accessory or a virtual switch), which SecuritySpy could then control based on the presence of absense of a vehicle in a particular camera. Is this what you are thinking? Or, is there another method of integration that you had in mind?

  • knowz
    knowz

    This thread matches a thought/incident that passed in the night. I have an exterior camera whose image includes my neighbor's garage door. My neighbor had to depart late in the night on an errand. They returned sometime later but for whatever reason their garage door failed to close. Fortunately I was awake and just before retiring I viewed camera images and noted the garage door was open and contacted my neighbor.

    Thought: Capture image when neighbor's garage door is open. Assuming the door is not closed in a reasonable/the usual amount of time. Periodically capture a new image. If after x number of minutes the new image does not match image of closed door one could be alerted.

    If image comparison was not something for sSpy per se perhaps it could be passed off to ffmpeg or some other app.

  • Ben
    Ben

    Hi @knowz this is a nice idea but currently SecuritySpy does not have a detector for open or closed doors. But, as we expand SecuritySpy's advanced AI detection capabilities, we will certainly consider features like this.

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