Home Assistant

Since I’ve found it a bit difficult to find instructions on how to make really simple object detection using something like TensorFlow, Keras, OpenCV, or PyTorch I’ve decided to write up my approach. tl;dr: Use https://teachablemachine.withgoogle.com/ to quickly get a working model, then use the provided code sample and adjust as per your needs. Unless you have very specific need not covered by the Teachable Machine, this is the fastest approach. ...

I know what most users who are doing their home automation using open source software like Home Assistant are thinking reading that title, but hear me out. Home automation, especially with open source software, is a topic that has a lot of areas where people disagree what the “best” thing is simply through the ability for everyone to do things the way they like them, from IoT protocols zigbee vs zwave, to reverse proxies, because at the end of the day everyone has different motivations and use-cases for their setup. ...