Community game of guess the animal, anyone?

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Hi all,

I've had problems with some unwanted guests this winter. Unfortunately the furry kind.

Our property is semi-dettached and the neighbours don't seem to want to do anthing. I've already spent a fair bit on pest control to attempt to resolve risk points etc.

As a last resort I've set up a couple of cameras to try and eventually work out where they're coming from.

ratCam hasn't yet captured any footage of rats. I did get a motion hit this morning and I can't quite work out what this is. Unless we've spawned a new variant of marsupial in the attic, the type with wings, it's definitely not a rat.

So, a game of guess the animal, anyone?

To try and keep this a little on the home automation topic. I'm actually fairly impressed with the camera night vision feature. Not bad for £16 each from Amazon. I don't really have a need for them after this so I didn't want to spend a fortune. They have motion detect and audio recording and it all saves to the sd card as mp4.

animal1 animal2 animal3

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I'm finding Camect is pretty good at recognizing common animals. I'm still sending them samples to tune fox recognition. It gets squirrels, birds, cats, and dogs with pretty good accuracy - even at night under IR illumination!

A daytime capture -

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Which camera is that (link)?

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This is it:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07TJHG3XF/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_AMWRGYZQ1JQM35Y00M3V?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

The cloud feature is expensive but it has a pretty good motion detection and alerts. I'm going to stick a network sniffer on the network to see if I can work out the port it's listening on and hack my own app together.

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Nice features. A little expensive for what I need it for at the moment.

edit - and I really like the purple chairs. :slight_smile:

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I bought in when it was under development. It is a bit expensive now.

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Opossum?

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Dark body, white face, and the crazed eyes of a meth addict gives them away every time.

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Thanks! Looks like this for the US: https://www.amazon.com/Kolaura-Camera-Security-Surveillance-Detection/dp/B07TW326S8

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:rofl:

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Looks like a great low cost option. Can you access the video feed with an endpoint url to out in a dashboard? What video format(s) does it output?

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Good question. I've not spent the time to try and properly integrate them yet. An initial http(s) request to the IP of the camera didn't connect so I need to look into what port the vendor app is using. I'll probably try over the weekend.

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