OpenPetCam v0.1.0

The first public release. Everything below runs on the reference install (Cinnado D1 camera, AWS Lightsail nano).

Live

• Camera-first live view: full-bleed WebRTC video with what she's doing laid over it, tap to aim, joystick,
  landscape full screen, hold to talk.
• Find: one tap sweeps the room for her, looking where the camera already points first.
• Follow: turns after her when she leaves the picture; quieter motor speed for automatic moves.
• Pause: turns off the picture and the microphone together, and re-applies itself if the camera forgets.

Her day

• Today: photo mosaic of the moments she was in view, day split, scrubbable timeline with barking, clips.
• Diary, nightly highlights reel, daily timelapse, wellbeing compared with her own normal, zones for bowls and bed.
• Web push alerts for barking, distress sounds, camera offline, blocked view and stopped video.

Detection

• Two-stage detection: YOLOX-nano proposes, a verifier trained on your own camera decides (rejects plush toys).
• tools/bootstrap_pet.py labels crops with Claude, trains and tests on held-out days; ./deploy.sh refuses to
  replace a trained verifier with the default.

Runs on $5

• Idle mode: camera snapshots instead of decoding video when nobody is watching; detection every 8 s while she
  moves and every 30 s when still. About 5% of one core on a Lightsail nano (was 47%).
• 6 hours of rolling video; clips, photos and per-minute stats kept much longer.

Looks after itself

• Freeze watchdog, streamer and audio self-heal, blocked-view check, day/night flap protection, absence alerter.
• Updates itself from GitHub releases daily, with a checksum, a health check and automatic rollback
  (server/update.py, UPDATE_CHANNEL, UPDATE_REPO). Version and last check in Settings.

Setup and the app

• ./setup: a guided install from a fresh server to the app on your phone (server, camera WireGuard values,
  passwords typed on the server, a final check).
• The app is OpenPetCam with its own icon set; your pet's name is set in the app on first open or in Settings.
• Themes: Cobalt, Golden and Meadow, each in System, Light or Dark.
• Open phones reload themselves after an update (iOS keeps Home Screen apps resident for days).
• Turning on alerts can no longer freeze the app if iOS stalls while subscribing.

The agent (optional, runs on your computer)

• "Something wrong?" reports with the frame and the 90 s before it, answered in the app by an agent that ships
  tested fixes.
• Fixes proven on your install are offered upstream as pull requests (tools/contribute.py, CONTRIBUTE=off to opt out).
• tools/finetune_pet.py fine-tunes the pet verifier on Claude-labelled footage; the server runs it as mode finetuned.
• Goals measured every 30 min; changes judged by tests, held-out replay, shadow runs and a 24 h re-check; an
  archive of every attempt; the Agent tab shows goals, work and decisions.