webcam-sentry

Webcam sentry is a web app that allows you to monitor your room when you are not around, all you need is a browser and a webcam!

How it works

Webcam sentry will allow you to whitelist people you trust to be in your room, however, if anyon else tries to enter the sentry will notify you sending you an email with suspect's face in frame.

How to run

run the following commands to create and start the flask server:

pip install -r requirements.txt
python app.py

Note on running the application on windows

if you are trying to run the application on windows then follow the following steps

1. install miniconda python 3.8, follow all the steps for installation and make sure you select the option to make conda available to all users

https://docs.conda.io/en/latest/miniconda.html

2. create a new conda env

conda create --name "env_name_here"
conda activate "env_name_here"
conda install -c conda-forge dlib

3. Finally, install the pip requirements

pip install -r requirements_conda.txt

Tech stack

Frontend:

1. Bootstrap
2. jQuery
3. JavaScript

Backend:

1. Flask (Python)
2. SQLite3
3. Dlib (For face recognition)

Development environement: Ubuntu Linux (16.04)

The webcam.js module used for this project was adopted from https://github.com/jhuckaby/webcamjs Face recognition is done using the following library https://github.com/ageitgey/face_recognition since it is so great and accurate

TODO

1. Sync webpage updates with the completion of AJAX requests
2. Housekeeping functionality to remove old user data [DONE]
3. Try to do a better job at using bootstrap :(