Impressive Frigate performance optimization using Gemini. My Raspberry Pi 5 + Coral TPU setup handling 8 cameras has seen a 38% drop in CPU usage, despite increasing the detection frame rate from 4 to 5. Gemini made several smart suggestions, including generating a shell script to ffprobe camera streams and determine their characteristics, splitting and…
Upgraded my Home Assistant to RPI 5 hardware recently mainly, so it better handles cameras in Frigate + Google Coral TPU. I am now monitoring 5 security cams at 10 FPS with ~25%-ish CPU load, the RPI 4 wasn't able to handle half of that without overheating, and 75%-ish CPU load
Finally Raspberry Pi 5 support in Home Assistant 12. Mine was starting to collect dust waiting for this.. https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2024/02/26/home-assistant-os-12-support-for-raspberry-pi-5/
Ordered 23rd of Oct 2023, received today #raspberrypi 5
Considering whether to buy the new Raspberry Pi 5.. who am I fooling, I know I'll end up getting it anyway. Resistance is futile
Join me on March 9th, lets chat on how to create GUI controls for your home automation 🙂 (in Bulgarian) https://dev.bg/%D1%81%D1%8A%D0%B1%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B5/webinardiy-%d0%b3%d1%80%d0%b0%d1%84%d0%b8%d1%87%d0%bd%d0%b8-%d0%ba%d0%be%d0%bd%d1%82%d1%80%d0%be%d0%bb%d0%bd%d0%b8-%d0%b8%d0%bd%d1%82%d0%b5%d1%80%d1%84%d0%b5%d0%b9%d1%81%d0%b8-%d0%b7%d0%b0-iot/?instance_id=1244 #IoT #NodeRed #raspberrypi #mqtt
Testing an interesting Raspberry pi display, piggy backs the RPI, has speakers, capacitive touch and 1024×600 resolution. Planning on using it as always-on home automation control center
Just ordered a @PiSupply LoRa Gateway HAT for Raspberry Pi (RAK 2247 based). Planning on using it for a @thethingsntwrk gateway. #IoT
#raspberrypi #flightradar24 monitor using @adafruit 3.5" PiTFT and Chromium in kiosk mode
Using a 3.5" PiTFT as security camera monitor with a ffmpeg one-liner #rtsp #raspberrypi ffmpeg -rtsp_transport udp -i rtsp://192.168.1.123:554/12 -pix_fmt rgb565le -s 480×320 -f fbdev /dev/fb1
#darkflow running on #RaspberryPi 3B+ handles well image recognition with light yolo weights
Grabbed a Raspberry Pi 3 B+
I guess I need an exabyte-sized HDD to fit this raspberry pi image.. recommendations? #RaspberryPi
The $35 Raspberry Pi isn’t really $35 – comparing the true cost of physical Pis against virtual machines for home automation duty.
Speech generation with Node-RED: the house reads notifications aloud so I stop picking up my phone 50+ times a day.
Exposing the Raspberry Pi’s network settings to /boot so they can be edited from a PC – handy when cloning SD cards for other networks.
Free uptime monitoring for my home automation system with UptimeRobot – a notification when the house goes dark, whatever the reason.
Dyn and No-IP got too commercial, so I moved my dynamic DNS to DuckDNS with a small Node-RED updater flow.
Improving my home automation system’s data quality – filtering the garbage readings that quietly break downstream logic.
Wiring a 9V smoke alarm into my home automation system with a Funky – SMS, Pushbullet and email alerts when it goes off.
Measuring my son’s actual TV time by logging the TV’s power draw to emonCMS – house rules are easier to enforce with data.
Live streaming the house martin nest to USTREAM.TV from a Raspberry Pi – motion-triggered stills were not enough.
House martins are nesting in my unfinished tool shack, so the kids and I put up a nest camera instead of peeking in.
Detecting who’s home by pinging the phones’ static DHCP leases from Node-RED – 15 minutes of work and pretty reliable presence detection.
Voice controlling the TV and heat pump with a smartphone and a Raspberry Pi – I’m no voice control fan, but this one earns its keep.
In-memory SQL over emonCMS feeds – min/max/avg analysis without touching the underlying database directly.
Controlling an LG smart TV from the shell with a Raspberry Pi and a stripped-down Python script – a 5 minute home automation project.
Tweeting my house’s power usage as sparkblocks – unicode sparklines squeeze a full day’s trend into a single tweet.
Adding FBTFT frame buffer support for the 1.8″ TFT to Raspbian in 5 minutes flat – @notro’s work ends the kernel patching nightmare.
A rock-solid RFM2Pi gateway: after killing several SD cards, the Pi now boots read-only and survives every power failure.
Mounting the Raspberry Pi root file system read-only – the next step after USB flash also proved corruptible on power loss.
Raw infrared to serial and back – one interface for every IR protocol my air conditioners, TVs and media gear happen to speak.