Trigger commands with computer vision python script

[Russ]

This script will trigger a command on one of your computers when your camera detects a thumbs up or down .

The command will be triggered via TRIGGERcmd.com, and the parameter of the command will be Up or Down depending on which hand gesture you showed the camera.

Watch it in action here:

You can find the script here:
https://github.com/rvmey/detect_thumbs_up_or_down

You could replace the cap = cv2.VideoCapture(0) line with a line like this to watch a network camera instead of your computer's webcam:

cap = cv2.VideoCapture("rtsp://admin:password@192.168.1.2:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=0")

EDIT: I published an improved version here that detects 7 different gestures. It also prevents your command from getting triggered too often.