The person (me) is about 5 or 6 metres away at a guess. I can clearly tell it's me, which probably meets the criteria. From what I've read, they say a 20x20 pixel face for identifying someone you know, and 40x40 for someone you don't in good light. But Frigate is getting face detection and I will want to play with that. I doubt it could do a good job at it at such a low resolution.

It seems I have to decide if I want good night vision (lower MP and bigger sensor for maximum light per pixel), or high resolution for a great image during the day but bad night vision. I've been reading a bit on ipcamtalk and people have multiple cameras to cover the scenarios, ending up with 10 or 15 cameras to cover everything. I am less worried about security (identifying strangers at night) and more interested in playing with the technology (send me a warning message when my mother in law is at the door), so I might end up with high resolution cameras that do poorly at night.

I'm actually thinking I might get one of the Reolink doorbell cameras next, and just see what that covers of the front. Just got to work out where I can drill the PoE through the wall.

I do want to have one that can identify if the wheelie bin is out and notify me if it's not but it should be, but I didn't know I wanted that until I read it as a possibility in the Frigate docs 😆