DIY “Samsung Family Hub” Refrigerator with Raspberry Pi + Camera!!!
I got tired of seeing the commercials for Samsung’s Family Hub refrigerator with the cameras inside, so I decided to make my own. I used a Raspberry Pi and USB webcam to take a picture inside our fridge and upload it.
Whenever the door opens, a light sensor triggers the a simple program I wrote to take a picture and upload it via FTP to our website. Total cost was about $80 dollars.
See what’s in our fridge!
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Best part is if something breaks you only need 30-50 bucks for parts instead of whats probably 1000+ for the samsung.
What about the outside family hub. Which laptop would be best, best magnet or strips to hold it etc…
I know there are other cams these days, as we are living four years later but wow.. this is so cool to see! Are you selling cams or sdcards now or did you help develop existing fridge cams that are on the international market?
Add some temp controls! 🙂
Maybe you could add a small two slim wires and put a potentiometer at the top right of the fridge door and sense what angle the fridge door is at and only take a picture when the door is at that angle or specific resistance. Just a thought on how to take a picture at a specific angle.
I'm guessing you no longer have this domain name? My ad blockers lock it down and recommend I don't load the page as it uses ad servers that are blacklisted.
Could you use a raspberry pi zero w?
Yes I need a security camera in my refrigerator because my produce is gonna break out.
OMG, inourfridge.com is no longer up.
So disappointed.
Hi
I have work in graduation project and
I have problem with setting the sensor.. Can you please give me the right script of it ☹️ …. This is my sensor
https://www.sunfounder.com/learn/sensor-kit-v2-0-for-b/lesson-20-photoresistor-module-sensor-kit-v2-0-for-b.html
( problem is at import PCF8591 as ADC)
we didn't pay anywhere near $6,000 for our Family Hub
Hi Mike and Lauren, we have just launched FridgeCam which you might like to see bit.ly/Fridgecam and you can all that it does at http://www.smarter.am/fridgecam I loved watching what you did after we had done our 3 years of development. We also have Alexa integration.
Damn dude. You rock.
Its always more rewarding to do a DIY project then to buy from big Manufacturers + with big Manufacturers if you have a issue its going to cost you even to call for help. but With raspberry you can find a solution on the forms that do justice.
so to see what's in your fridge you still have to open it?
This project is really cool but… I cant see the usefulness
Nice project but I still can't see a reason to take a picture when you have to be there and open the door.
Cool prfoject, but not really useful.
it will take a picture When the door is close or open?
How do you manage moisture??
Awesome, this is just what I needed. I want to make something similar for our mailbox.
On the website, http://inourfridge.com/, you mentioned that you were having problems with the WiFi signal strength. You can try placing the Raspberry Pi and the WiFi module outside of the refrigerator and place the camera and light sensor inside the refrigerator.
Lol this seems so rediculus, I can't really imagen why you would really need this lol. But we'll done good on you for setting this up!
Nice project!!
My wife is unhappy with the 'odor' of pickcles in
it. I am a pickle lover, so I bought a smart fridge odor eliminator. No
more complaaints. Happy wife happy life.
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NICE!!!!
Cool project Mike, good job! Thought of doing something like this myself. But after a little research, it looks like back in January a company called Smarter released a $100 Frig camera that does the same thing. Takes the fun out of it of course. I'm not affiliated, just an FYI.
nice project. I'm wondering if lens fogging has been an issue. I looked in your fridge, and the image looked a bit cloudy. Likely more of an issue if the door is being opened frequently, but a cold lens coming into contact with warm, damp Florida air seems like a perfect storm. If the camera could live outside the door, and peek in when it's opened that could help. Not sure if the added complexity would be justified, though, on a project that already works fairly well.
Good job!! Super cool well share that with our crowd
this is awesome!
Are you not going to post Friday finance videos any more?
Wouldn't the Samsung take a picture when you start closing the door? That way it would show what you have just taken out/put in whereas when it does that at the beginning you don't have the actual last state.
I cannot overstate how horrific it is, that a British computer should be involved in a project that involves TEA being stored in a FRIDGE. Our nations have a history of fighting over this stuff, y'know.
More seriously – brilliant. The ultra-wide-angle short-focus webcam is a good find, especially that it seems to be supported out-of-box under Raspbian. I've tried adding a fisheye lens to the official Raspberry Pi camera (v1) with poor results.
Amazing initiative and project! People like you make my day!
cool project.
Hi Mike, you should know that GitHub records a history of all your changes. Your first commit had a password in the script, if that password is important I suggest changing it (and also using better passwords in general…)
How about a link to the light sensor. And a schematic.
The only thing I might add is that the image could be incorrect. For example if you opened it and took out the tea, the latest photo would still show the tea as it was taken right after the fridge was open and before you removed the Tea., not right before it was closed and after you removed something.
Great job figuring this out, but this is the definition of first-world problems.
Suggestion for the html page on your domain is add a meta refresh so it will automatically refresh the page at whatever interval you want. http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_meta_http_equiv.asp Great project!
I bet this was a cool, fun project. I cannot imagine spending all that money to get the Samsung.
Really cool idea. My wife asked me when I would do that for our fridge. My response was….. not happening anytime soon.
Mike I went straight to inourfridge.com and the last pic was taken at 12:32AM… Midnight eating hmmm..
Right so with that out the way – I thought it would be cool for it to take a picture on demand with the fridge closed – you'd probably have to use multiple cameras so that when you're at the mall you quickly check in to see what you're short on – otherwise this is a brilliant idea and you should sell it to #SAMSUNG.. ha ha ha..
Also maybe you could sell the goodies you used on the main page with hosting on the sub-domains (inourfridge.com/mikeandlauren/ as you suggested) for the first year for about $15? What do you think?