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What's the best cat flap? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by Nurgus@lemmy.world to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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Local integration, no cloud preferred.

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[–] Nurgus@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Lock and unlock control and status mainly.

[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Because you want to keep your cat from going in/out at certain times or what?

We just have one of those chip-enabled flaps so it only unlocks for our cats. 100% offline with no cloud connection whatsoever. I personally don't really see any benefit to remote locking/unlocking the flap, if I wanted to manage when my cat can enter/leave the home I wouldn't have a flap.

[–] nogooduser@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

We don’t let our cats out at night so it would be great to have a cat flap that knew whether each cat was in the house or not and could either lock the flap or lock it on in-only at a certain time of day.

[–] swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You can at least get the who's in/out with a pair of cheap cameras (one inside, one out) and the frigate add-on. Set up for cat detection it's fairly decent:

If you build up enough images of your creatures, you could even train a model to recognise them each specifically.

[–] nogooduser@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

That looks good. The current cats look very different from one another so I reckon that we’d only need three pictures to train it.

[–] swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 months ago

Hey,

Another user helped me out by sending me a Sureflap.

You can still integrate this into homeassistant - just need to buy in a particular esp unit and contact Peter on the homeassistant forums (see thread) for the firmware.

We're all set up now:

The OnlyCat flap looks very nice, but the price is insane & the online requirement is a deal-breaker. Even the non-sub option requires activation online afaik, so that's just no.