▲ 17 ▼ What's the best cat flap? (lemmy.world) submitted 9 months ago by Nurgus@lemmy.world to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world 21 comments fedilink hide all child comments Local integration, no cloud preferred.
[–] Nurgus@lemmy.world [S] 5 points 9 months ago (5 children) Lock and unlock control and status mainly. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 9 months ago (4 children) Because you want to keep your cat from going in/out at certain times or what? We just have one of those chip-enabled flaps so it only unlocks for our cats. 100% offline with no cloud connection whatsoever. I personally don't really see any benefit to remote locking/unlocking the flap, if I wanted to manage when my cat can enter/leave the home I wouldn't have a flap. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] nogooduser@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (3 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 2 points 9 months ago (2 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] nogooduser@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (1 child) 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 1 point 8 months ago Hey, Another user helped me out by sending me a Sureflap. You can still integrate this into homeassistant - just need to buy in a particular esp unit and contact Peter on the homeassistant forums (see thread) for the firmware. We're all set up now: The OnlyCat flap looks very nice, but the price is insane & the online requirement is a deal-breaker. Even the non-sub option requires activation online afaik, so that's just no. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 9 months ago (4 children) Because you want to keep your cat from going in/out at certain times or what? We just have one of those chip-enabled flaps so it only unlocks for our cats. 100% offline with no cloud connection whatsoever. I personally don't really see any benefit to remote locking/unlocking the flap, if I wanted to manage when my cat can enter/leave the home I wouldn't have a flap. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] nogooduser@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (3 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 2 points 9 months ago (2 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] nogooduser@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (1 child) 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 1 point 8 months ago Hey, Another user helped me out by sending me a Sureflap. You can still integrate this into homeassistant - just need to buy in a particular esp unit and contact Peter on the homeassistant forums (see thread) for the firmware. We're all set up now: The OnlyCat flap looks very nice, but the price is insane & the online requirement is a deal-breaker. Even the non-sub option requires activation online afaik, so that's just no. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] nogooduser@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (3 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 2 points 9 months ago (2 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] nogooduser@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (1 child) 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 1 point 8 months ago Hey, Another user helped me out by sending me a Sureflap. You can still integrate this into homeassistant - just need to buy in a particular esp unit and contact Peter on the homeassistant forums (see thread) for the firmware. We're all set up now: The OnlyCat flap looks very nice, but the price is insane & the online requirement is a deal-breaker. Even the non-sub option requires activation online afaik, so that's just no. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 2 points 9 months ago (2 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] nogooduser@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (1 child) 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 1 point 8 months ago Hey, Another user helped me out by sending me a Sureflap. You can still integrate this into homeassistant - just need to buy in a particular esp unit and contact Peter on the homeassistant forums (see thread) for the firmware. We're all set up now: The OnlyCat flap looks very nice, but the price is insane & the online requirement is a deal-breaker. Even the non-sub option requires activation online afaik, so that's just no. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] nogooduser@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (1 child) 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 1 point 8 months ago Hey, Another user helped me out by sending me a Sureflap. You can still integrate this into homeassistant - just need to buy in a particular esp unit and contact Peter on the homeassistant forums (see thread) for the firmware. We're all set up now: The OnlyCat flap looks very nice, but the price is insane & the online requirement is a deal-breaker. Even the non-sub option requires activation online afaik, so that's just no. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 1 point 8 months ago Hey, Another user helped me out by sending me a Sureflap. You can still integrate this into homeassistant - just need to buy in a particular esp unit and contact Peter on the homeassistant forums (see thread) for the firmware. We're all set up now: The OnlyCat flap looks very nice, but the price is insane & the online requirement is a deal-breaker. Even the non-sub option requires activation online afaik, so that's just no. permalink fedilink source parent