Detecting when your pet wants to go outside using machine learning and object recognition.

First, clone this repository to your raspberry pi.

cd ~/
git clone https://github.com/rydercalmdown/pet_detector

Next, run the installation script.

cd pet_detector
make install

Next, download the pretrained model.

make download-model

Use this command to run the script:

make run

To configure the script to run automatically, add the following line to /etc/rc.local before the last line.

source /home/pi/pet_detector/env/bin/activate && cd  /home/pi/pet_detector/src && python app.py