Smarter garbage reminders with Frigate and Home Assistant
Use separate local Frigate classifiers to see which garbage and recycling bins still need moving, then narrow and stop the existing Home Assistant reminders.
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Local Package Detection with Frigate and Home Assistant
Replace cloud LLM Vision package checks with local Frigate state classification. Keep your Home Assistant helpers and alerts, and let Codex help train the model on your own…
Get a Driveway Car Alert with Frigate + Home Assistant
Use a Frigate car zone and a 30-second loitering threshold to send a camera-backed Home Assistant alert to both phones and route optional speech through an LLM-backed announcement…
Home Assistant Caught My HVAC Failure
How Home Assistant recorder history, Frigate footage, and a small maintenance dashboard turned a failed blower into runtime-based filter reminders and condenser line cleanout alerts.
Home Assistant Package Reminder: Camera to Phone Alert
How I use Home Assistant, LLM Vision, a front-door camera event, and a simple helper state to send useful package reminders only when there is actually something on…