Launch HN: Visual One (YC W20) – Event recognition for security cameras

Re:Launch HN: Visual One (YC W20) – Event recognition for se... by smashah on Thursday March 12, 2020 @08:37PM (#22563590)

This will be major as a home assistant integration. Right now the nest camera component is broken due to the recent Nest=>Google migration. This has broken streaming nest cam footage for everyone that migrated. I'm actually surprised a 3rd party has actually gotten support for nest cam stream API before home-assistant itself.

Anyways, when it comes to security cams in the consumer space you have

Low: Wyze, Yi, other Chinese Mfgs Mid: Ring High: Nest

But I think the major money is in the prosumer space: The custom Dahua (Lorex/Flir) or anything with an NVR. Massive false positive rate, bad detection algos, shitty software. Have you seen Lorex's Rapid Recap feature? Definitely cool but too expensive. Also Dahua NVR's have had security concerns too

Rapid Recap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIWnQ9arSJg CCTV Hacked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9ea9fllnME

Smart local secure powerful NVR replacements is what business + prosumer home owners are looking for, good thing is that most IP cameras are running on a handfull of standards, instead of a seperate API for each brand.

How did you get access to the NEST API streams?

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Re:Launch HN: Visual One (YC W20) – Event recognition for se... by mrafiee on Thursday March 12, 2020 @09:13PM (#22563811)

Thanks for sharing. I had not seen those. Need to look into them more closely. We have been focused on stand alone cams. Nest shut down their APIs last year but they allow users to share their camera streams.

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Re:Launch HN: Visual One (YC W20) – Event recognition for se... by smashah on Friday March 13, 2020 @04:38AM (#22565701)

So you require the Nest streams to be public then???

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Re:Launch HN: Visual One (YC W20) – Event recognition for se... by mrafiee on Friday March 13, 2020 @10:54AM (#22567704)

yes but a random url that you get is private (only people you share it with would have access) and you can change/invalidate it anytime.

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