Over-engineering a smart doorbell... Why make it easy if it can be difficult?
Channel: Hackerspace Gent
Date: 2021-09-04

Hack together a doorbell detector using machine learning.

I made a system to detect when my doorbell rings in order to get a notification when packages arrive. Instead of buying a smart doorbell out of the box, however, I created a docker-compose stack on a raspberry pi running a multi threaded python program which runs a machine learning based bell detector, with a labelling tool to give feedback to the system and a completely automatic retraining pipeline.


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