My thoughts are definitely too complex. Currently I'm thinking of a camera that will turn on a light and take a picture (at a specified time || when door closes) and send that to our family Slack - someone will habitually look at any notification, and we don't have a large number of chickens so it's fastest to rely on human perception to see if someone is missing. Or just a camera that we can turn on remotely to check the feed ourselves.
That's the "simple" version - a more complex one would take a picture and compare to an empty sample to decide how many blobs there are, but that is hampered by (1) If chickens huddle, that becomes complex and (2) it's not a problem space I have any interest in, so the problems won't be fun to solve.
My thoughts are definitely too complex. Currently I'm thinking of a camera that will turn on a light and take a picture (at a specified time || when door closes) and send that to our family Slack - someone will habitually look at any notification, and we don't have a large number of chickens so it's fastest to rely on human perception to see if someone is missing. Or just a camera that we can turn on remotely to check the feed ourselves.
That's the "simple" version - a more complex one would take a picture and compare to an empty sample to decide how many blobs there are, but that is hampered by (1) If chickens huddle, that becomes complex and (2) it's not a problem space I have any interest in, so the problems won't be fun to solve.