FaceRec (BETA) - Local, Fast, Reliable Face Recognition project.

Archived project, no longer maintained

DISCLAIMER

The module can be easily manipulated to erase and add faces with physical buttons. Please make sure you don't expose them. DON'T USE THIS PROJECT TO CONTROL SECURITY MEASURES AS LOCKS etc.

Description

It utilizes the TX510 kit module that contains a 3d Camera, a display and a flash. This All-In-One kit can autonomously, register and then recognise faces. It communicates via Serial to an ESP and via ESPHome can be controllable from Home Assistant.

Connection Diagram:

Some ESP32 boards can't power the TX510 when in Identification process so if you have strange behaviours make sure TX510 gets it's 5v or else try with another board

TX510	ESP
5V	VCC
GND	GND
P2: USI1_SD0	RX
P2: USI1_SCLK	TX

Entities exposed:

• Switch for turning on/off:
  • Diplay
  • Backlight
  • Onboard LED Flash
• Buttons:
  • Registration and Identification of Users
  • Query the number of UserIDs
  • Delete a UserID
  • Clear all the registered faces
  • Query the TX510 version
  • Baud rate change
  • Restart MCU (ESP)
  • Reboot TX510
• Text Sensors:
  • User ID that recognised or registered. The UserIds start from 0 (first face registered = 0)
  • Responce from the TX510 on every action
• Binary Sensor:
  • Presence sensor that turns on when the identification process was successful
• Number:
  • User Input where you can input UserIDs to delete or to change the Baud Rate from TX510

Initial Setup

• Copy the .yaml and .h files in your ESPHome config folder
• Edit the .yaml file for your ESP settings
• Compile & Upload to the ESP

How to:

• Register a UserID (Face)
  • Look in front the camera and press the Register User Button in HA or S1 button on the TX510 kit
  • You get on screen and ha responce: Failed with a reason or Success with the UserID that has been saved (starting with 0)
• Identify a User
  • Look in front the camera and press the Start Identify Button in HA or S2 button on the TX510 kit
  • You get on screen and ha responce: Failed with a reason or Success with the UserID that has been recognised
• Delete a UserID
  • Input the UserID (0-999) in number entity User Input
  • Press the Delete UserID button on HA
  • You get on screen and ha responce: Success always (even if the UserID doesn't exit, hardware limitation)
• Clear all UserIDs
  • Press the Clear ALL Users button on HA
  • You get on screen and ha responce: Success
• Query Sum and UserIDs saved on TX510:
  • Press Query Num. Reg. UserIDs Button on HA
  • You get a ha responce: Sum: with the summary of all registered users and the UserIDs that have been registered
• Baud Rate change on TX510:
  • Input the corresponding number for the Baud Rate from the list below, in number entity User Input
    • 0 = 9600
    • 1 = 19200
    • 2 = 38400
    • 3 = 57600
    • 4 = 115200
  • Press the Change Baud Rate button on HA
  • You get on screen and ha responce: Success

This version runs on ESPHome firmware, you can check the version running on BTHome that could potientially run on battery

In folder resources you can find the English firmware + manuals and test tools

Please read the comments in the code.