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    MMM-Face-Reco-DNN - All new Face Recognition

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      Ivanov_d
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      I will give it a go. I am getting mixed results with OCV3 facial recognition.

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        Ivanov_d
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        After few days of installing (it takes a lot of time to build OpenCV 4.1 and dlib), trial and errors I finally installed and configured the module and oh boy is it good? Yes it is. It is much faster and accurate than Facial_Recognition_OCV3 that I used before. It was tottaly worth the time.

        Thanks a lot to nischi for responding so quickly to the issues I posted on GitHub and to the enhansments he made based on my feedback.

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          nischi @Ivanov_d
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          @Ivanov_d Thanks a lot, glad to hear that.

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            ChrizZz
            last edited by ChrizZz

            as a Noob I have a few questions regarding the installation process - I passed now OpenCV:

            At first for me it looks like this is the newest face recognition module and therefore I should go for installing this one instead of the other 2 options, right?

            Now I finished the OpenCV installation by using the linked guide from pyimagesearch. There OpenCV was installed in an virtual environment. Is this important? Do I have to install all the libs like dlib or face recognition also in this virtual environment?

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              nischi @ChrizZz
              last edited by

              @ChrizZz

              Yes its the newest version of the face reco 😊

              No its not that important that you use a virtual environment, bit with this you can also install different versions on the same machine. but if you have a virtual environment you need to install all dependencies ther, dlib and face reco too.

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                Ivanov_d
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                @ChrizZz I followed the tutorial and installed OpenCV and all dependencies in a virtual environment, but that did not go very well afterwards, you have to reconfigure the module with the correct paths and that can be cumbersome, therefore I started on a clean state and installed OpenCV and the dependencies without a virtual envioronment - e.g. follow the same tutorial without the part related to virtual enviornment. That is the most appropriate for our use case.

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                  ChrizZz
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                  damn - 2nd try without a virtual environment.

                  @nischi: Is there a chance that you merge your module also with MMM-MotionDetector? Currently I use the camera to activate and deactive my screen and Google told me that it isn’t possible that 2 processes use the same camera. The suggested solution was to use a 2nd camera, merge both processes or stream the camera picture.

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                    Ivanov_d
                    last edited by

                    @ChrizZz I have used camera motion detection and I gave it up, because:

                    1. It is not very reliable (maybe it was just my cheap camera that I used for testing back then)
                    2. it is resource hungry

                    Because of that I use an external wireless PIR sensor which is part of my smart home system to turn on/off my SmartMirror and it works great. Since the motion processing happens on my smart home system and the Mirror is turned on/off via SSH command it takes up no resources at all from the MagicMirror which is already at 60% load when using Facial Recognition.

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                      nischi @ChrizZz
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                      @ChrizZz
                      You can use my other Module https://github.com/nischi/MMM-MotionControl to control TV with my Face Reco Module. It communicate with Notifications and is not using an own Camera Stream.

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                        ChrizZz
                        last edited by ChrizZz

                        oh, I didn’t know that you have a modul for it. But unfortunately it isn’t working on my Pi. Your modul doesn’t recognize a motion.

                        Do I have to uninstall the MMM-MotionDetector first?
                        Or do I need to run Face-Reco-DNN or the OCV3 version?

                        //edit: I think I know why it isn’t working. Maybe my display isn’t HDMI-CEC ready. I changed the command of your node_helper.js.
                        Default:

                        turnOn: function() {
                        		var self = this;
                        		exec('echo "on 0" | cec-client ' + this.config.comport + ' -s -d 1', function (error, stdout, stderr) {
                        			self.status = 'on';
                        

                        My version:

                        turnOn: function() {
                        		var self = this;
                        		exec('vcgencmd display_power 1', function (error, stdout, stderr) {
                        			self.status = 'on';
                        

                        Instead of sending a note to my display for standby I switch off the display_power. But I can’t wake up the display again. I think I have to use Face-Reco-DNN or Facial-Recognition-OCV3. Currently I don’t use them because I have to do the setup for the DNN version.

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