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Local and self controled AI has some really cool applications. When I can afford it, replacing my home security cameras with something that stays local and not sent to the cloud is on my list of things to do. When I do that having a local AI do image recognition and tying it into my home assistant setup will be a cool project.
Yeah you need hardware for that. They're making it so we can't get hardware and we can't self-host.
You don't think China sees the vacuum left from the current players exiting consumer markets? The protectionism playbook that the US has run is catching up to bite us in the ass, which will be accelerated now that China has EUV.
That and I expect used enterprise hardware to continue to be sold. I have an old hotel check-in computer as my current router running OPNSense.
China "has EUV" lithography in the same way ASML had it in 2001:
They are still an awful long way behind the west in this regard.
China isn't pioneering the technology. They aren't operating in a vacuum. They won't have to wait 20 years to make it all work.
Sure, it probably wont take then as long, but its still misleading to portray "China reaches milestone a western company did a quarter of a century ago" as being equivalent to catching up.
There's the ai that works well, has many useful applications and reasonable hardware requirements, and there's the generative ai fucking everything and not giving us a proportional return in usefulness
Do it! It's super easy with Frigate addon for home assistant. There's nice blueprints to handle the mobile notifications when you are out.
Look into Frigate
I have multiple Reolink cameras and can recommend them. Everything can run completely locally with their app and the cameras blocked in the firewall while recording to a SD card. You can let the cameras connect to their servers for push notifications and remote access if you like (I unblock them in the firewall sometimes if I’m going to be away and want to access them).
The cameras have onboard ML that can detect humans, cars, pets, and motion, and it’s fully possible to leverage those events in HA, making a something like Frigate and a Coral TPU unnecessary.
Personally, I just use them with the app, as well as RTSP streams from VLC, though I did have local push notifications setup with HA in the past for human detection from my Reolink doorbell.