In my home I have three raspberry's, each equipped with a camera, a motion sensor and some fancy neopixels. (shown below). In addition I've rented an external server (it is actually one of those amazon elastic cloud servers). The last components in the setup are the android phones of me and my wife.
The raspberry's are running a python program that connects them to the server. The phones are running a background service to check their location. The phone sends a message to the server as soon as it moves further than 300m away from the GPS location of my apartment, simply a "I'm gone" message. If the server sees that both phones are gone it will send a message to every raspberry .. "turn protection on".
If a camera/raspberry now detects a motion the following things happen: The camera sends a message to the server "motion detected", it also starts capturing a configurable amount of frames and starts uploading them to the server.
The server will forward the message to our phones and will attach the picture, taken by the camera. The background service will let the phone vibrate and shows the picture on the screen. Tapping on them opens the app. The app will show you the cameras, the state of each camera and the ability to open the livestream. It also gives you the option to review the pictures, saved during recent alarm and a few more options. (see the two screenshot below, one shows the app in "active protection" mode and one shows the livestream of two anti-roach guys being busy sneaking through my stuff)
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