Hopefully this fails for someone and the baby dies...
Create your own smart baby monitor with a RaspberryPi and TensorFlow
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Re: Create your own smart baby monitor with a RaspberryPi and TensorFlow
#72Hopefully this fails for someone and the baby dies.
Re: Create your own smart baby monitor with a RaspberryPi and TensorFlow
#73Please, please, do not use something like this as the only method of monitoring a child’s safety. This sort of thing has given me honest to god nightmares. My day job is managing development and infrastructure of internet connected cameras, with motion detection, notifications, and all the rest of it. Every now and again someone new will start on the marketing team and put together something about using them as baby…
So what you're saying is, to save a baby we gotta hurt a baby
Re: Create your own smart baby monitor with a RaspberryPi and TensorFlow
#74Sorry, but some things simply shouldn't have technology applied to them at this level. If author is so worried about trying to "automate" away parenting duties, I think they should take a good hard look at themselves in the mirror and seriously reconsider their approach to parenting.
There's no amount of RaspberryPi or Tensorflow to justify reducing parenting time so you can do more RaspberryPi or Tensorflow-ing.
Re: Create your own smart baby monitor with a RaspberryPi and TensorFlow
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do I get to steal that pedantry award if I point out that two parents can take 48 person-hours a day?
But the baby itself can only get attention for 24 hours per day. I think you need to give that pedantry award back. :P
I read it as “required beyond constant attention, literally like 30hr [of attention] per day”, not “required attention beyond constantly, literally for like 30hr per day.” ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Re: Create your own smart baby monitor with a RaspberryPi and TensorFlow
#76Other comments notwithstanding: how does a new parent find time for this???
>how does a new parent find time for this?
Speaking as a new parent, we have a knack for lighting our time (and sanity) on fire in order to provide things of marginal value to the baby.
I'm talking things like boiling water before making formula, sterilising bottles and dummies, installing and then looking at baby monitors, feeding baby at regular intervals (even in the middle of the night), making the latest "Montessori" toys and cloth nappies, etc. etc.
Anything that helps us fruitlessly burn ourselves out to the point that quality time with our newborn is seen as yet another problem will be welcomed with open arms.
Re: Create your own smart baby monitor with a RaspberryPi and TensorFlow
#77I don't get it. We bought a baby monitor in 2012 that was probably $80 (Philips brand I think). It was based off the DECT standard that was developed for wireless landline phones, so range was around 1200ft line-of-sight, in practice you could go two stories down in our apartment building to visit friends and it would stay connected just fine. The baby unit was quite bulky and ran off wall power, but the parent unit…
I gotta say, you guys must own some giant houses if the monitor is the only way to tell the baby is up and crying.
In my experience it’s not so much about hearing the full blown crying, it’s about hearing the fussing that indicates that crying is imminent.
Re: Create your own smart baby monitor with a RaspberryPi and TensorFlow
#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do I get to steal that pedantry award if I point out that two parents can take 48 person-hours a day?
But the baby itself can only get attention for 24 hours per day. I think you need to give that pedantry award back. :P
No. Because why the child can only get attention for 24 hours per day, other tasks primarily focused on the child (buying nappies, cooking baby-friendly meals, washing bottles, etc.) are what Parent #2 is doing while Parent #1 looks after child.
Re: Create your own smart baby monitor with a RaspberryPi and TensorFlow
#79Sorry, but some things simply shouldn't have technology applied to them at this level. If author is so worried about trying to "automate" away parenting duties, I think they should take a good hard look at themselves in the mirror and seriously reconsider their approach to parenting. There's no amount of RaspberryPi or Tensorflow to justify reducing parenting time so you can do more RaspberryPi or Tensorflow-ing.
The tone isn't great, but I think it's in part like that because they're trying to pitch their project as automation. To me it seems more replacing/extending something (analog baby monitor), but that's not exactly automation.
It’s up to the parent to move the speaker as they move to different rooms, as they can’t play the sound on any other existing audio infrastructure
Re: Create your own smart baby monitor with a RaspberryPi and TensorFlow
#80Came here to post basically the same comment as everyone else, so I’ll save my words.
My child was born in June and we have been using a WYze camera with RTSP enabled + a kindle tablet with TinyCam installed and it has worked flawlessly. Highly recommend for a budget setup.