I was watching a demo someone made of using the Kinect in a home automation scenario.
Since this can be run on a Linux setup I figured this would be an awesome room scale tracking setup. Determine where people are, how many people are there, and possibly who is there.
Hopefully you creative minds can come up with a solution to implement this.
The Kinect goes for as cheap as $15-$25 these days.
That’s actually some cool stuff there. Kinect is awesome for detecting presence, including in night time. +1 for implementing support in Home Assistant.
This would be great for hyper-updated PIR sensing like pausing the TV if no inhabitants in the room!
It’s awesome! Where can I find any step by step instructions about the hardware and software setup? Hoe can I connect the kinect to the Homeassistant?
I also want to know as their are no instructions on the GitHub.
I am also interested in this being implemented into Home Assistant as an add-on. I found this Kinect RTSP streamer repo.
I also found this but doesn’t explain how to implement it into Home Assistant.
This would be similar to the “Wyze Docker Bridge” to restream Kinect into Frigate. As an add-on with drivers and libraries from OpenKinect/libfreenect and an RTSP streamer from Azure_Kinect_RTSP-Streamer I feel there is a good chance to get this into Home Assistant. Hope this helps anyone else on this path. I have only limited experience on how to create add-ons and this one is above my experience.
I got the kinect camera to stream to HTTP and can connect that to Home Assistant for poor quality(browser view is better). I am currently working on making the quality better and expanding to all the kinect functions being controllable by home assistant.
I didn’t have any luck with Azure and most anything related to Kinect no longer works or was made in python2. Libfreenect is the only thing I’ve had luck with and that includes trying all of Microsoft stuff(no surprise they don’t support either kinect anymore).