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Is there a simple service with Python API that allows you to store a database of images of persons with their names, then with Python, ask it if a new image matches any of the database?

By /u/LibertyState on November 28, 2018

Basically trying to do ****** recognition on Raspberry Pi. I want to store a few images of individuals, give them names. Then in Python, i send a picture, and ask to compare it against the database to see if there's a match.

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This is what i tried: Amazon rekognition: very complex, couldnt get boto3 to work. It keeps saying no moduile boto3 even though i installed it.

Face_recogniton: a very simlpe API i found on github, but takes like a minute.... too long.

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Any other ideas? Something that does the computation on a server so that it doesnt take too long, as opposed to doing computation on my raspberry pi.

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Thanks!

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Why aren’t there any cheap amazon dash button programmable clones?

By /u/amenadiel on November 24, 2018

To my understanding, the amazon dash button will connect to your wifi network and send a request to an Amazon endpoint each time you press the button.

This means, the SSID and password is stored in the button without actually flashing said information in the ROM.

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Now, I've seen projects to replicate the dash button function using ESP8266, NodeMCU and Arduino IDE, mounting everything in a protoboard or soldering manually.

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I wonder, how come no company has come with a cheap configurable clone that could not only remember SSID and password but also a custom URL to make the request (I'm thinking IFTTT).

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I've seen products that do this but cost around 50 bucks. Considering the dash button has been around for a long time, at this point chinese manufacturers should have already made a cheap clone that could be bought in bulk. It still puzzles me.

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