Crying wolf is the main problem. They often go off on random things. Especially outdoor sensors, as you pointed out.
But then again, one could have a short lasting warning siren, and then a full blast one when someone does break in.
But then again, one could have a short lasting warning siren, and then a full blast one when someone does break in.
Should we set off the alarm by accident, we then have 20 seconds to fix it, before all the neighbors are alerted.
Right now I’m thinking about simply processing the outdoor cameras rtsp stream for people detection and then triggering is if it has a certain confidence.
Can be done quickly on the Pi with something like a google coral accelerator USB stick.
You can also have it send the photo it detects to your phone and you can manually turn on the alarm with that alert after viewing it.