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What's the best cat flap? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by Nurgus@lemmy.world to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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[–] nogooduser@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We don’t let our cats out at night so it would be great to have a cat flap that knew whether each cat was in the house or not and could either lock the flap or lock it on in-only at a certain time of day.

[–] swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You can at least get the who's in/out with a pair of cheap cameras (one inside, one out) and the frigate add-on. Set up for cat detection it's fairly decent:

If you build up enough images of your creatures, you could even train a model to recognise them each specifically.

[–] nogooduser@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That looks good. The current cats look very different from one another so I reckon that we’d only need three pictures to train it.