I Connected My Farm To The Internet. Now What?
summary
A hobby farm turns into a product experiment: IP cameras (Ubiquiti UniFi, one 4G), 900 m of Cat6 and Wi‑Fi across ~30 acres feed OBS Studio into Azure Media Services (later retired) with a 100 GB/month cap, zero budget and peaks of ~200–800 daily viewers, later ~50. Home automation runs on Home Assistant with Node‑RED flows for pumps and solenoids on an 80 m uphill 80,000 L tank, motion alerts and a lightweight classifier trained in Azure Custom Vision (≈20 images) exported to run locally; cameras use RTSP for ingest.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Home automation intro
- 10:40Hobby to tech with llamas
- 22:46Home Assistant automation
- 33:48Defining success
- 41:57AI image recognition demo
- 51:06Respecting users
- 53:51Sponsorships insights
- 55:15Closing remarks
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