nice. I've been thinking about how to rig up a camera and motion detector to warn me when the cats are going to piss on the floor instead of using their litter tray

you gonna have it trigger some kind of high pitched alarm so the cats will shift their behavior? or will it still require human intervention?

just notify me, human intervention required.

the couple of times I've gotten there almost-in-time it became obvious what the problem was. one cat was using the toilet and the other wanted to copy him but there wasn't enough room.

so the 2nd cat just goes on the floor.

<o​frnxmr:monero.social> Its not foss, but i used to use an android app called tinycam + cheap cameras over the lan

<o​frnxmr:monero.social> Tinycam has build in motion detection, as well as detection for what it thinks are animals, vehicles or people

<o​frnxmr:monero.social> Can record to nfs, sd card etc.

<o​frnxmr:monero.social> not a terrible solution. Not sure of free alternatives for the motion/object detection

Hmm I WISH! I had a way to monitor the cat before he decides to have a dirty protest on the floor :/ Just finished replacing the downloads hallway carpet with laminate after he protested too many times to save it :/

The downloads hallway. We're in the matrix. I knew it.

fek sake, uncaffinated :/

s/downloads/downstairs

been working in CLI far too much this weekend :D

LOL

on the bright/dark side, I now know what I'm dealing with in the loft space :D took apart an old webcam and removed the IR filter, setup a load of IR leds to flood the cold dark abyss of the loft

at one point there were 5 cat sized rats running between ours and the neighbours joined wall

and the beaglev-ahead is up there, uncooled, and running at about 30c despite having a heavy load. Winter has its perks

started looking into the firmware of the board because the indicator LEDs are pretty bright on it and I didn't want anything coming over and having a nibble or piss on it - then just found I could disable the LEDs without having to do anything crazy

cats can see near infrared. I wouldn't be surprised if rats can too

they'll be blinded by them then :P there's around 200 5mm IR LEDs up there

yowza

and now I need to put some mice on the projector screen to distract the cat from all the fireworks outside :| poor guy isn't enjoying tonight