My cat feeder clips cost $0 a month now instead of $5

His cat feeder camera charged $5 a month to store motion clips. He had the AI reverse engineer the feed login so his home server could pull the video, spot the cats, cut clips, save them to R2, and play them in an iOS app, all for $0 a month.

$5a month

How it works

The AI reverse engineers the feeder feed login
His LAN server pulls the feed
The AI builds a way to identify cats and cut clips
Clips are saved to R2
The AI makes an iOS app that plays the clips

Why it’s worth knowing

In one night, while packing, he went from a $5 a month paywall to his own cat spotting clip system with an app, at $0 a month.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

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