AI Vision in Home Assistant: Automating Mail Detection with a Camera

Your security cameras are already watching — but what if they could actually understand what they see? In this video, I walk through how I built an AI vision pipeline in Home Assistant that detects the exact moment my mail is delivered, using a Reolink camera, a custom detection zone, and Google Gemini for image analysis. The camera I am using in this video is a ReoLink Duo 3 Wifi, but there are so many configurations to choose from and they have the best integration into Home Assistant: https://amzn.to/4t7TUyR For my Home Assistant server I am using the Home Assistant "Green" appliance which is about as "turnkey" you can get for home automation: https://amzn.to/4tj9LLk I provide a complete walkthrough video on how to set up the Home Assistant Green server here: https://youtu.be/ZY1D1_IksVI 0:00 Intro 0:33 Detecting Mail Delivery with Home Automation 1:51 Using AI and Vision to detect mail delivery 3:41 Configuring AI Task Vision Analysis in Home Assistant Pastebin link for code samples used in this video: https://pastebin.com/JpeM1wyC #homeassistant #aiautomation #smarthome #homeautomation #googlegemini #reolink #computervision