It's a complete novelty but I have found it to be useful on occasion. I have it trained on family, neighbors, and delivery drivers, this allows me to feed this info into home assistant and have my google hubs announce different things depending on who it is. It's nice to get the announcement of who then I can dictate my urgency to the door. If it is unknown then I can look at the picture that got sent to my phone to check or if I am at my desk I can look at my google hub to decide the response. It's all in my quest to find the perfect doorbell for two-way communication. Will it make my security better, no does it improve my life, a little.
Man, I'll be happy with getting the basics down pat. Lol. Facial Recognition is one of those things I can do without. On top of that, I can't slip another thing by my wife! Although I've had most of the parts for BI lying around she swears I'm spending a ton of money on it. She's somewhat correct but can't prove it and I don't wanna be in the dog house.Yeah, most of us have found that facial recognition is more gimmicky and novelty than anything else. If you have to put in 5 or 10 or 15 or 35 pictures of yourself in system for it to recognize it is you...then you shouldn't expect much.... My success rate was under 5% so I moved on to other things LOL.
It can work in certain situations like a business that requires everyone to stop in front of the camera and the camera is at head height. Outside of that, the percentage of being accurate is probably not going to be super high. Especially someone coming to a front door.
Unless you spend the big bucks that casinos and airports have LOL.
Heck even in ideal situations like a business with the camera at ideal height and optimal lighting it fails....
What do you think of Dahua's "Uyghur Warnings"?
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I have automated light and fan switches, door locks and a garage opener. I also have the Google Home mini and a few other things, but haven't taken the plunge into home assistant yet. I may, but I want to get this BI challenge under my belt first.
No doubt. There is a point where security trumps convenience. I think any sort of automatic lock logic passes this point. It doesn't matter if you are using facial recognition, bluetooth, RF readers, etc.
No Sir! That'll never happen. I wont even allow my Google Home to talk to and control my locks, A/C or alarm. That means giving up two factor authentication and making things easier to hack imo.
I have them and quite a few other things around here. The only things not automated are our blinds. Those switches are too doggone expensive.
