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I just moved and I live literally window to a freight train line, unfortunately it scares the crap out of my cats and so I'm trying to find out what the schedule is so that I can close the windows for them, and maybe put a little raspberry pi display screen saying something like "next train arriving in...." Next to my window

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[–] yokonzo@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Hey coding nerds, I know you're nearby, do you think I'd be able to use tensorflow or something to identify an incoming train with this view?

[–] Technoguyfication@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You could, but if this is taken from another window in the same building you’ll likely only get ~10 seconds of warning.

If you could put a couple cameras a mile or so down each direction on the track you could get an earlier warning system

[–] yokonzo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This is taken from my window, and I'm not sure how I feel about leaving expensive equipment out in a suburban area for anyone to pick up and run off with