Obviously, you can use the setup as a general purpose surveillance system to monitor noise in the whole house.
@@ -26,15 +26,16 @@
We need an IP-camera that can capture sound in the baby’s room. It is also possible to use a Raspberry Pi with a microphone and send the audio to our Home-Assistant with ffmpeg -f alsa -i hw:1,0 -vn -f rtp rtp://236.0.0.1:2000 over multicast. We can set input option on Home-Assistant side to rtp://236.0.0.1:2000 in same network.
+We need an IP camera that can capture sound in the baby’s room. It is also possible to use a Raspberry Pi with a microphone and send the audio to Home Assistant with ffmpeg -f alsa -i hw:1,0 -vn -f rtp rtp://236.0.0.1:2000 over multicast. We can set the input option on the Home Assistant side to rtp://236.0.0.1:2000 in same network.
-Next, we attach a ffmpeg noise binary sensor to our IP-camera. The sensor has an output option that allows us to send the output to icecast2 server for playing over speakers integrated with Home-Assistant (e.g., Sonos). We can use the binary sensor in our automation. You can ignore the icecast2 setup if you don’t want to play the audio after the noise sensor trigger.
+Next, we attach a FFmpeg noise binary sensor to our IP camera. The sensor has an output option that allows us to send the output to an icecast2 server for playing over speakers integrated with Home Assistant (eg. Sonos). We can use the binary sensor in our automation. You can ignore the icecast2 setup if you don’t want to play the audio after the noise sensor trigger.
$ sudo echo "deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get -t jessie-backports install ffmpeg
@@ -43,6 +44,7 @@ We change the platform name for binary sensor in 0.38 from /etc/icecast2/icecast.xml:
+
<mount>
<mount-name>/babyphone.mp3</mount-name>
<stream-name>Babyphone</stream-name>
@@ -53,23 +55,23 @@ We change the platform name for binary sensor in 0.38 from duration option. The sensor should wait 60 seconds before restoring and it prevent us that a wine break will triggering a new alarm.
+Now we can add the noise sensor to Home Assistant. We can lower the sensitivity of the sensor (so that you are not inundated with notifications for every cough of the baby) to 2 seconds using the duration option. The sensor should wait 60 seconds before restoring and it prevent us that a wine break will triggering a new alarm.
-We can optimize the audio stream for human voice by using a highpass filter with 300Hz and a lowpass filter with 2500Hz. This filters out all non-human sounds such as background noise. We can even add a volume amplifier if the microphone volume is too low (you can remove it from extra_arguments). For icecast2 we convert the audio stream to mp3 with samplerate of 16000 (which is the minimum for Sonos speakers). We use peak to set the threshold for noise detection, where 0 dB is very loud and -100 dB is low.
+We can optimize the audio stream for human voice by using a highpass filter with 300 Hz and a lowpass filter with 2500 Hz. This filters out all non-human sounds such as background noise. We can even add a volume amplifier if the microphone volume is too low (you can remove it from extra_arguments). For icecast2 we convert the audio stream to mp3 with samplerate of 16000 (which is the minimum for Sonos speakers). We use peak to set the threshold for noise detection, where 0 dB is very loud and -100 dB is low.
binary_sensor:
- - platform: ffmpeg_noise
- input: rtsp://user:pw@my_input/video
- extra_arguments: -filter:a highpass=f=300,lowpass=f=2500,volume=volume=2 -codec:a libmp3lame -ar 16000
- output: -f mp3 icecast://stream_user:stream_pw@127.0.0.1:8000/babyphone.mp3
- initial_state: false
- duration: 2
- reset: 60
- peak: -32
+ - platform: ffmpeg_noise
+ input: rtsp://user:pw@my_input/video
+ extra_arguments: -filter:a highpass=f=300,lowpass=f=2500,volume=volume=2 -codec:a libmp3lame -ar 16000
+ output: -f mp3 icecast://stream_user:stream_pw@127.0.0.1:8000/babyphone.mp3
+ initial_state: false
+ duration: 2
+ reset: 60
+ peak: -32
We use the option initial_state to prevent the ffmpeg process from starting with Home-Assistant and only start it when needed. We use an input_boolean to control the state of ffmpeg services using the following automation.
+We use the option initial_state to prevent the FFmpeg process from starting with Home Assistant and only start it when needed. We use an input_boolean to control the state of FFmpeg services using the following automation.
input_boolean:
babyphone:
diff --git a/blog/2017/02/03/babyphone/index.html b/blog/2017/02/03/babyphone/index.html
index d367532525..bca70aeb70 100644
--- a/blog/2017/02/03/babyphone/index.html
+++ b/blog/2017/02/03/babyphone/index.html
@@ -94,8 +94,6 @@
- - Babyphone
-
- How-To
@@ -111,7 +109,7 @@
- One of the hardest part of being a parent is keeping a constant eye on the baby to make sure that baby is doing well. Thus, it is not surprising that baby monitors are one of the fastest growing baby product category. However, many of the baby monitors available in the market are rather dumb and expect the parents to keep looking at the video stream or listen to the audio. This how-to will help you create a smart baby monitor on a budget and integrate it with Home-Assitant. Instead of relying on the poor quality baby monitor speakers, we use our existing speakers (e.g., Sonos). We can also send notifications (with pictures) to avoid constant monitoring of the feed.
+ One of the hardest part of being a parent is keeping a constant eye on the baby to make sure that baby is doing well. Thus, it is not surprising that baby monitors are one of the fastest growing baby product category. However, many of the baby monitors available on the market are rather dumb and expect the parents to keep looking at the video stream or listen to the audio. This how-to will help you create a smart baby monitor on a budget and integrate it with Home Assitant. Instead of relying on the poor quality baby monitor speakers, we use our existing speakers (eg. Sonos). We can also send notifications (with pictures) to avoid constant monitoring of the feed.
Obviously, you can use the setup as a general purpose surveillance system to monitor noise in the whole house.
@@ -119,15 +117,16 @@
Setup
-We need an IP-camera that can capture sound in the baby’s room. It is also possible to use a Raspberry Pi with a microphone and send the audio to our Home-Assistant with ffmpeg -f alsa -i hw:1,0 -vn -f rtp rtp://236.0.0.1:2000 over multicast. We can set input option on Home-Assistant side to rtp://236.0.0.1:2000 in same network.
+We need an IP camera that can capture sound in the baby’s room. It is also possible to use a Raspberry Pi with a microphone and send the audio to Home Assistant with ffmpeg -f alsa -i hw:1,0 -vn -f rtp rtp://236.0.0.1:2000 over multicast. We can set the input option on the Home Assistant side to rtp://236.0.0.1:2000 in same network.
-Next, we attach a ffmpeg noise binary sensor to our IP-camera. The sensor has an output option that allows us to send the output to icecast2 server for playing over speakers integrated with Home-Assistant (e.g., Sonos). We can use the binary sensor in our automation. You can ignore the icecast2 setup if you don’t want to play the audio after the noise sensor trigger.
+Next, we attach a FFmpeg noise binary sensor to our IP camera. The sensor has an output option that allows us to send the output to an icecast2 server for playing over speakers integrated with Home Assistant (eg. Sonos). We can use the binary sensor in our automation. You can ignore the icecast2 setup if you don’t want to play the audio after the noise sensor trigger.
We change the platform name for binary sensor in 0.38 from ffmpeg to ffmpeg_noise. Also all service going to component and was rename from binary_sensor.ffmpeg_xy to ffmpeg.xy.
-On Raspbian Jessie, you can setup ffmpeg and install a icecast2 server using:
+On Raspbian Jessie, you can setup FFmpeg and install a icecast2 server using:
+
$ sudo echo "deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get -t jessie-backports install ffmpeg
@@ -136,6 +135,7 @@ We change the platform name for binary sensor in 0.38 from /etc/icecast2/icecast.xml:
+
<mount>
<mount-name>/babyphone.mp3</mount-name>
<stream-name>Babyphone</stream-name>
@@ -146,23 +146,23 @@ We change the platform name for binary sensor in 0.38 from duration option. The sensor should wait 60 seconds before restoring and it prevent us that a wine break will triggering a new alarm.
+Now we can add the noise sensor to Home Assistant. We can lower the sensitivity of the sensor (so that you are not inundated with notifications for every cough of the baby) to 2 seconds using the duration option. The sensor should wait 60 seconds before restoring and it prevent us that a wine break will triggering a new alarm.
-We can optimize the audio stream for human voice by using a highpass filter with 300Hz and a lowpass filter with 2500Hz. This filters out all non-human sounds such as background noise. We can even add a volume amplifier if the microphone volume is too low (you can remove it from extra_arguments). For icecast2 we convert the audio stream to mp3 with samplerate of 16000 (which is the minimum for Sonos speakers). We use peak to set the threshold for noise detection, where 0 dB is very loud and -100 dB is low.
+We can optimize the audio stream for human voice by using a highpass filter with 300 Hz and a lowpass filter with 2500 Hz. This filters out all non-human sounds such as background noise. We can even add a volume amplifier if the microphone volume is too low (you can remove it from extra_arguments). For icecast2 we convert the audio stream to mp3 with samplerate of 16000 (which is the minimum for Sonos speakers). We use peak to set the threshold for noise detection, where 0 dB is very loud and -100 dB is low.
binary_sensor:
- - platform: ffmpeg_noise
- input: rtsp://user:pw@my_input/video
- extra_arguments: -filter:a highpass=f=300,lowpass=f=2500,volume=volume=2 -codec:a libmp3lame -ar 16000
- output: -f mp3 icecast://stream_user:stream_pw@127.0.0.1:8000/babyphone.mp3
- initial_state: false
- duration: 2
- reset: 60
- peak: -32
+ - platform: ffmpeg_noise
+ input: rtsp://user:pw@my_input/video
+ extra_arguments: -filter:a highpass=f=300,lowpass=f=2500,volume=volume=2 -codec:a libmp3lame -ar 16000
+ output: -f mp3 icecast://stream_user:stream_pw@127.0.0.1:8000/babyphone.mp3
+ initial_state: false
+ duration: 2
+ reset: 60
+ peak: -32
We use the option initial_state to prevent the ffmpeg process from starting with Home-Assistant and only start it when needed. We use an input_boolean to control the state of ffmpeg services using the following automation.
+We use the option initial_state to prevent the FFmpeg process from starting with Home Assistant and only start it when needed. We use an input_boolean to control the state of FFmpeg services using the following automation.
input_boolean:
babyphone:
diff --git a/blog/archives/index.html b/blog/archives/index.html
index b1f6f34292..1791beccdb 100644
--- a/blog/archives/index.html
+++ b/blog/archives/index.html
@@ -3336,8 +3336,6 @@
-