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An IP65 weather resistant wifi-connected outdoor smart camera with AI-driven pet detection and configurable software triggers, battery powered so it's super easy, barely an inconvenience to install anywhere on one's property? With a built-in speaker allowing you to project your voice through it? Pull
the other one, I hear you about to say.
Well they definitely exist. Ring Video Doorbell, Wyze Outdoor Cam, etc. This idea is for a software package for such cameras that plays the sound of a loudly barking dog through the speaker of such a camera when a pet or wild animal is detected, such a goddamn raccoon raiding a halfbaker's Koi pond.
Use in conjunction with a motion-sensor sprinkler system (also widely available) for a full shock and awe campaign!
Motion Detector - Barking Dog
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09LV8S86M
[a1, Sep 08 2022]
Here's a nice one
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09NDC29S8/
Outdoor rated (only IP55 though, so don't submerge it!). Battery operated, choice of barking dogs, gun shots, or sirens. [a1, Sep 08 2022]
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I don't know how hydrochloric acid ended up in my sprinkler system, officer. I must have hooked up the wrong barrel. I so hope that poor stranger who got lost in my basement is going to be okay. |
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This doesn't seem very different from existing motion-detecting noise makers (link). The idea of leveraging existing devices like Wyze, Ring, or Blink seems good - except all of those have really terrible, weak scratchy speakers. |
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For a fake guard dog to be convincing it has to project deep notes, very loudly. In other words, it needs a good woofer. |
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A1 that's awesome, but it doesn't appear to be suitable for outdoor use. |
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Oh, and you're fired for that pun. |
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(pout) But I use that pun every single time someone suggests this exact same WKTE idea! |
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There are a lot more to choose from than the one I carelessly posted first. Give me a few minutes to search through a few hundred models on Amazon to find to a battery powered one that's at least IP65 (same as current Blink Outdoor camera). |
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Edit... Here's a nice one (link). It does check all the boxes but from some of the reviews it may have the same problem I noted earlier - unconvincing dog noises, sounds fake, I don't need to repeat the pun. |
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Ooooh... Very nice. Still, it doesn't employ AI to detect animals specifically so it'll go off every time *I* walk near my pond, which I had hoped to avoid. Not looking to scare myself shitless the first few times I try feeding my fish! |
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Aw snap, you buried the lede. I didn't realize until rereading just now you were looking to specifically to AVOID going off on people. |
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But I think AI person recognition might be unnecessary. How about one that disarms automatically when you get close to it, but only you've got a RFID or bluetooth tag of some kind on your keychain? An intruder - on four legs or two - would still set it off if they didn't have the disarming tag with them. |
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