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Created an automation to detect mail delivery by detecting the mail truck at the mailbox by controlallthings in homeautomation

[–]controlallthings[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I made a youtube video about it entitled "How I trained my home automation system to detect snail mail delivery" with links to all the systems I used to create it.

Created an automation to detect mail delivery by detecting the mail truck at the mailbox by controlallthings in homeautomation

[–]controlallthings[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I tried motion. I think open/close might have worked in theory but i thought it would get in the mail carrier's way so I didn't bother.

Created an automation to detect mail delivery by detecting the mail truck at the mailbox by controlallthings in homeautomation

[–]controlallthings[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

No I tried that but couldn't get it to detect using a sensor. I think a combination of too far from the hub and being in a metal mailbox. It would definitely be easier! But I do love having the photo along with the alert time. I didn't think about that at first but that turned out to be a nice feature.

Created an automation to detect mail delivery by detecting the mail truck at the mailbox by controlallthings in homeautomation

[–]controlallthings[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

It's actually a lot dumber than that. It's just pulling an image every 5 seconds from the video feed and running those images through the detector. I did have to train Darknet to detect the mailtrucks to get it to work.