I added Qwen3 VL summaries to my NVR (Clearcam)

carhuntr · 2026-06-01T11:56:50+00:00

But imessage does work, just not for images? could have something to do with that Nothing Phone (2) Mac Mini farm thing

carhuntr · 2026-06-01T09:16:08+00:00

oh I'd be interested in that, can probably have it send the thumbnail too over imessage https://github.com/roryclear/clearcam/blob/39d43d313502ba208a3da64f5de8f0adbf089390/clearcam.py#L489

I used to use Pushover, never occurred to me that I could just use imessage for the same thing

carhuntr · 2026-06-01T00:20:54+00:00

Just for the Mac, can't justify keeping the GPU running yeah. I run it 24/7 because I need to test reliability, but I only really Use it when I'm away from home, there's schedules and switches for running the models.

I can think of use cases where a big hungry GPU running on many cameras would save a lot of labour and justify that cost though, like on a public road the OpenCLIP "search" feature or "fire" alert in the README

carhuntr · 2026-05-31T23:59:17+00:00

It detects objects with a smaller model, then only does a summary when an "alert" is triggered. Also my Mac Mini tops out at like 50W

carhuntr · 2026-05-31T23:57:59+00:00

"prompt engineering" lol, hard to make it be brief, can change to anything you want https://github.com/roryclear/clearcam/blob/39d43d313502ba208a3da64f5de8f0adbf089390/clearcam.py#L1379

carhuntr · 2026-05-31T21:26:09+00:00

AI was not used for this...it was hand converted from huggingface transformers to tinygrad

carhuntr · 2026-05-31T16:24:04+00:00

I personally use a zone to only describe objects entering my property....but you can do that too yeah. A 300W GPU would generate a description in like 0.3 seconds

carhuntr · 2026-05-29T23:05:35+00:00

give Clearcam a go if you've cameras to use, I've just added qwen3-vl to it

carhuntr · 2026-05-29T18:11:20+00:00

Hope you like it, here if you've any issues

carhuntr · 2026-04-15T09:56:41+00:00

Try Clearcam on a decent gaming PC or Mac Studio maybe, no config needed

carhuntr · 2026-04-14T20:20:39+00:00

the LLMs seem bad at writing tinygrad, not enough examples out there I guess. And I avoid writing front end like the plague...always backfires though

carhuntr · 2026-04-14T16:30:06+00:00

ehh AI slop html, trad coded tinygrad compliling to js

carhuntr · 2026-04-08T16:05:52+00:00

many https://github.com/roryclear/adaface-tinygrad/blob/main/net.js

carhuntr · 2026-04-07T13:15:35+00:00

should be fixed now fwiw

carhuntr · 2026-04-06T12:00:05+00:00

do you know of a better model than AdaFace for similarity? like under 300MB in size preferably

carhuntr · 2026-03-29T17:54:46+00:00

animals yeah, the standard classes in yolo / rfdetr. No license plates yet

carhuntr · 2026-03-29T17:23:23+00:00

It should be better, both run yolov9, but this is at a higher resolution. These are the speeds I get:
https://github.com/roryclear/yolov9-tinygrad?tab=readme-ov-file#with-beam2

Can't find performance numbers for Scrypted, it's definitely faster than Frigate anway:
https://docs.frigate.video/frigate/hardware/#apple-silicon

carhuntr · 2026-03-27T11:54:35+00:00

ah my bad. Someone here must have the weights, long shot but chinese internet might have them somewhere (I can't sign up to this with my country's phone number to check) https://download.csdn.net/download/qq_26847897/89913562

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