Gesture support?

Feature Requests
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Not sure if this should go here, but theres no generic discussion forum for it so… here goes

Has anyone thought about gesture based commands? I mean, with a simple webcam that has motion detection, and hand tracking of sorts? I dont really know how it works to be honest.

For example, I swipe my hand in front of a camera (like the old Jedi mind tricks) to the right, and it turns the lights on with automation rules. To the left and it turns them off again
Waving up/down - dims/brightens or volume /up/down on currently playing
You get the idea - so much potential

thoughts?

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Yes, I’m currently on a project to reach this goal. Right now, I have the motion tracking and people detection worked out. My next step is to figure out how to integrate my code with HASS.

Phase II will be face detection and recognition. This is needed so that gestures can have some type of permissions.

Phase III will be gesture support. Conservative ETA for this phase would be 3rd quarter of this year.

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That is awesome. I’ll definitely keep a look out for it!

Let me know if you need any testing done, although I do only have indoor cameras to work with

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What I could use now is guidance on how to create a component. I created a thread here Custom Component Sample Not Working. If you can help please do.

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Any updates on the project?

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNND its gone.
Its gone… :smiley:

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I would suggest looking into AK9753 sensor modules