Home assistant integration human motion sensor setup

fredfon
fredfon
in Home automation

So I've enabled SecuritySpy in Home Assistant as I want to use my non-human detecting cameras as Human sensing motion sensors.

SS 6.17

Do I simply go "detection-advanced-"AI Powered"-adjust Human sensitivity to taste and expect that human motion "motion sensing" is what Home Assistant will see as a "sensor" for that camera?

Is a mid 2012 MacBook pro (2.5 Ghz Dual_core Intel Core i5) up to the task? (I would like to set up two of my cameras as "Human" detectors.

Thanks in advance!

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  • JoshADC
    JoshADC

    Sorry, I just now saw this. I haven’t tested it myself yet, but I would suspect the motion sensor that shows up as something like binary.sensor doorbell_motion will react to however you have your detection zones and motion capture triggers set up in Security Spy. There’s also the “diagnostic” sensor for object detected which outputs human, vehicle, etc.

    Is your 2012 Mac running Security Spy OK now? Nothing about Home Assistant should put any extra load on it unless you’re not currently using Security Spy’s detection.

  • JoshADC
    JoshADC

    I tested this just now with one of my cameras, and the binary.sensor for each camera's motion does appear to follow whatever you have the detection zone and so forth set to in Security Spy, but it doesn't filter down to the human level. When I was out of the zone, the binary sensor stayed "clear," and switched to "detected" when I moved into the zone, but it also switched to "detected" when a cat walked on the porch, and I only have my triggers set for humans in both the Motion Capture and Action Tabs. You may be able to use the Presence Detection area, which exposes itself in HA as something like "sensor.doorbell_detected_object" and then set your HA automation to fire when that sensor changes to "Human" for long enough. Depending on what you're doing with it though, this may be something where setting up a trigger in Home Helper would work better for you. There's a great calculator over in the help section, but it looks like your old Mac should be able to handle it. https://bensoftware.com/securityspy/helpcalculator.html

    And after I wrote all that I explored a little more, and then exposed the Animal, Vehicle, and Human scores in the integration. So anybody should be able to use those in any combination they want to fire automations, plug into a Bayesian, etc.

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