WinstonN / doorbell

python script that takes frames from a security camera and attempts to find faces. An automatic doorbell.

My DoorBell

script to stream my video camera and see if faces turn up in front of it it will then send a payload to mosquitto mqtt.

Links: https://www.hackster.io/robin-cole/pi-camera-doorbell-with-notifications-408d3d https://github.com/ageitgey/face_recognition/blob/master/examples/blur_faces_on_webcam.py https://github.com/arunponnusamy/cvlib/tree/master/examples https://face-recognition.readthedocs.io/en/latest/face_recognition.html#module-face_recognition.api

configuration

There is a configuration file needed to tell the script where your camera and mqtt are.

camera:
  host: 192.168.1.1
  user: user
  pass: pass
mqtt:
  host: 192.168.1.2
  user: user
  pass: pass

How to install in systemd:

cp doorbell.service to /etc/systemd/system
systemctl enable doorbell.service
service doorbell start
service doorbell status

I have many incarnations of this script and I have used a few python face_reconigtion library's but continue to struggle with accuracy. I am using cvlib now, but it seems to pick up a lot of cars and miss a lot of faces. With the ageitgey/face_recognition project I seemed to pick up a lot of shadows.