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jomjol / AI-on-the-edge-device

Easy to use device for connecting "old" measuring units (water, power, gas, ...) to the digital world
https://jomjol.github.io/AI-on-the-edge-device-docs/
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Capture Blinking Digits #3362

Open unSinn opened 3 weeks ago

unSinn commented 3 weeks ago

The Feature

My meter blinks the digits every 10 seconds or so for 0.5 seconds. This makes it very hard to capture. Could we detect first poll for something dislayed and then stard recognition? image

jomjol commented 2 weeks ago

This would need another module which continiously analysis the camera picture, maybe even in a kind of video mode. This is a major developent and not planned at the moment. Also it would require a deeper change in the internal logic, as this is based on a constant time triggered flow. Effort rather high - currently not planned.

frazer84 commented 1 day ago

I have this request as well, since I have the same measuring hardware.

One way would be to have a long shutter time and not use the flash. By this, the numbers should be caught in the image. The other option would be to be able to somehow trigger a switchbot to press the button (black button right of the display) that will keep the numbers visible for a longer period of time.