Face and person detection with Deepstack - local and free!

[danbutter]

The way I use deepstack (and tensorflow) in HA is to use my cameras to detect motion and then call the image processing service via an automation.
I have never tried to do detection continuously. I think that would be quite a load on the computer that deepstack is running on. Not even sure this is made for or capable of that.
Sound more like you want to check out a couple other threads on image processing:

Local realtime person detection for RTSP cameras

I wanted to integrate nest-like person detection into homeassistant with my existing IP camera so I could do things like turn on exterior/interior lights while the alarm was armed. Ended up working well, so I thought I would post here. It detects a person in <1s.

Motion AI - Detection and classification of entities

Wow! This is exhaustive. I have so many questions, but the most important ones: how many cameras can this reasonably support on a Pi4? how much latency for detection events have you noticed on a Pi4? Does it make sense to have an entire HA instance dedicated to this or should my regular installation support most of this? Do you use any kind of NVR separately from this?

Object detection for video surveillance

Watsor Watsor detects objects in video stream using deep learning-based approach. Intended primarily for surveillance it works in sheer real-time analysing the most recent frame to deliver fastest reaction against a detected threat. What it does Performs smart detection based on artificial neural networks significantly reducing false positives in video surveillance. Capable to limit detection zones using mask image with alpha channel. Supports multiple hardware accelerators such as The Coral U…

And yeah POE cams are wired and therefore better performance than wifi cams. Keeping as much wired as possible is the recommended method.