When Your Smart Doorbell or Camera Isn’t Enough, Try a Raspberry Pi

CamKnows™ 1.0 for the Raspberry Pi is now available on GitHub.

I have owned a smart doorbell for several years now, and I can’t imagine life without it. The benefits of smart cameras and doorbells are numerous. I can instantly know who is at my front door or when a package is delivered. There are, however, some drawbacks to any camera-equipped smart device.

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How to Install OpenCV for Python on a Raspberry Pi

Computer Vision isn’t just for GPU-powered desktops. Using OpenCV and Python on a Raspberry Pi equipped with a Camera Module, you can program and deploy amazing solutions including motion detection.

As I discovered personally, installing the correct libraries for OpenCV and Python for this task can be challenging. Here are the steps I used to get it working.

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