How to detect wild animal pests in a windy garden?
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Nice topic.
I was gonna to say, thought it may seem Overkill, that you could setup a small zone minder system with a cheap night vision camera pointing downwards as high as possible.
Then zm allows for setting up virtual fences by drawing on the camera image, and if anything changes in the region (with configurable threshold) it fires a trigger or alarm.
You could start the sprinklers.I would like to have a domoticz integration plugin.
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Nice topic.
I was gonna to say, thought it may seem Overkill, that you could setup a small zone minder system with a cheap night vision camera pointing downwards as high as possible.
Then zm allows for setting up virtual fences by drawing on the camera image, and if anything changes in the region (with configurable threshold) it fires a trigger or alarm.
You could start the sprinklers.I would like to have a domoticz integration plugin.
@Sergio-Rius said in How to detect wild animal pests in a windy garden?:
Nice topic.
I was gonna to say, thought it may seem Overkill, that you could setup a small zone minder system with a cheap night vision camera pointing downwards as high as possible.
Then zm allows for setting up virtual fences by drawing on the camera image, and if anything changes in the region (with configurable threshold) it fires a trigger or alarm.
You could start the sprinklers.I would like to have a domoticz integration plugin.
I like your idea. Would that solution be immune to false triggers from the wind blowing the leaves to and fro?
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@Sergio-Rius said in How to detect wild animal pests in a windy garden?:
Nice topic.
I was gonna to say, thought it may seem Overkill, that you could setup a small zone minder system with a cheap night vision camera pointing downwards as high as possible.
Then zm allows for setting up virtual fences by drawing on the camera image, and if anything changes in the region (with configurable threshold) it fires a trigger or alarm.
You could start the sprinklers.I would like to have a domoticz integration plugin.
I like your idea. Would that solution be immune to false triggers from the wind blowing the leaves to and fro?
@NeverDie Yes, it has a threshold for the amount of change for it to trigger. And by using a night vision cam I suppose alive beings should show brighter.
Well, I only had false detections at night from car lighting the garden.
Pointing from above makes easy defining the detection area at the grass.If a camera sensor that incorporates this function could be done it would be incredible. I wonder if there's a powerful enough mcu to scan the camera images and run such an algoritm on the sequences, without being a complete rpi_with_Os-like system.
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@Terrence You're welcome! This is the movie clip that inspired a lot of hackers to make their own:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elJ3t6AOPJcFor instance, a number of people have made paintball robot sentries. I think that for a backyard, though, water projectiles are the best.
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@Terrence You're welcome! This is the movie clip that inspired a lot of hackers to make their own:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elJ3t6AOPJcFor instance, a number of people have made paintball robot sentries. I think that for a backyard, though, water projectiles are the best.
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Looks like it wouldn't be too hard to build something like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fcT4w4ofvUThen just program it to rapidly spray the entire region that you want protected. :) You'd probably want some waterproof motors, though. Not sure who sells those.
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Looks like it wouldn't be too hard to build something like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fcT4w4ofvUThen just program it to rapidly spray the entire region that you want protected. :) You'd probably want some waterproof motors, though. Not sure who sells those.
@NeverDie yeah, I think it's called sprinkler in most hardware stores and you can get the improved version with automatic movement without electricity for cheap now. :grinning: :grinning: :grinning:
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Yes, as mentioned earlier in the thread. I think you're right, though, it would be easier and more practical. Then the problem reduces to mostly just a detection issue.
