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Coyotes Vision

What this is

Local-first home security & automation with attitude.
No subscriptions. No data siphons. Just a coyote that actually watches the yard.

I design and deploy a self-hosted security/automation stack built on Home Assistant + sane Linux glue, delivered with a bot support (short commands, readable alerts, optional sticker sass). It runs locally, survives shaky internet, and doesn’t hand your footage to a random cloud.

Who This Is For

Coyotes Vision isn’t just a smart-home setup — it’s a modular automation ecosystem designed for people who need more than plug-and-play tools. Straightforward, practical, and easy to evaluate.

  • Smart home power users that need scalable, stable, modular automations without blowing up YAML spaghetti.
  • IT professionals & automation engineers seeking real-world examples of orchestration across Telegram, cameras, email parsers, random-pool engines, and sensors.
  • Developers looking at how to build a fully modular bot “brain” (CVBot Mind), text/media pools, fallback logic, and dynamic command routing.
  • Home security users wanting practical monitoring via Telegram/Discord/Etc. (Agent DVR + CVBot alerts + manual video request/playback on TV).
  • Tech recruiters needing a clear look at architecture mindset, reliability engineering discipline, and integration approach.

What you get

  • Privacy by default. Video stays on your gear. Full auditability.
  • Offline-tolerant. Internet dies, automations don’t.
  • Human-friendly alerts. Snapshots, context, and zero logspam.
  • No vendor lock-in. Standards, not walled gardens.
  • Aesthetic & playful. Because security doesn’t have to feel like an airport checkpoint.

Coyote Behind the Console

CVBot is the conversational layer of Coyotes Vision: an always-awake automation companion that ties the entire ecosystem together with you and your devices.

It talks, reacts, routes commands, analyzes context, and bridges the gap between your smart home, your devices, and your daily workflow. It’s a lightweight orchestration engine with a personality. Its responses are randomized from curated text pools, giving every interaction a unique but consistent tone.

Real-time Communication

CVBot communicates through Telegram/Discord/Slack and more. Using a mix of text pools, coyote stickers, structured messages, and system alerts.
Depending on context, it can be:

  • a friendly assistant
  • a status reporter
  • a camera operator
  • a security monitor
  • a dispatcher

Its responses are randomized from curated text pools, giving every interaction a unique but consistent tone.

Daily Utility

Security & Cameras
When something moves, CVBot knows before you do — and reports cleanly.

  • manual recording
  • event-based alerts
    (motion, alarm, system triggers)
  • clip delivery with fresh MP4s
  • selected video export on request

Presence Awareness
CVBot tracks phones, arrivals, departures, and alarm states. It reacts immediately and only when conditions are correct

This is part of the larger “home as a system” paradigm: smooth handoffs, zero noise.

Weather & Orders
Useful, compact, and readable — not a wall of numbers.

  • formatted daily briefings
  • precipitation warnings
  • contextual messages depending on severity

Mail & Packages
Tracks marketplaces like Amazon, Ebay, Etsy shipping events, ETA changes, and delivery confirmations.

  • Parses USPS Informed Delivery digests
  • Sends updates summarizing what’s coming, what’s late, and what arrived

Personal Customization

Logic, content, and personality fully separated

Users can build their own “living” assistant from the ground up — custom voice, text libraries, stickers, behavioral patterns, visual identity, and even species. The character becomes modular, expressive, and truly theirs, without touching the underlying automation logic.

The assistant becomes part of the home, a digital roommate with a curated personality, tone, and emotional range. And because the system is modular, the character can evolve over time: new lines, new moods, new voices, new behaviors, all without rewriting the core engine.

Professional Scaling:

  • Offices: announcements, room scheduling, staff alerts.
  • Apartment complexes: package notifications, maintenance updates, visitor flow.
  • Warehouses: event parsing, audio cues via VLC grids, workstation presence, shift briefings.
  • Themed cafe spaces / escape rooms: audio triggers, lighting effects, story-driven messages.

Engagement model

  1. Discovery (email) — goals, constraints, gears.
  2. Design brief — topology, privacy settings, automation plan, hardware delta if needed.
  3. Build & config — HA setup, cameras, notifications, tests.
  4. Handoff — docs, one-page cheat sheet, quick training.
  5. Support — pay-per-issue.

Pricing is project-based after the design brief. Time-based payment.

No subscriptions from me, ever.

Tiers

  • Starter: 1–2 cams, Telegram/Discord/whatever alerts, local storage, basic scenes.
  • Plus: multi-cam, weather logic, audio cues, friendly dashboards.
  • Custom: weird layouts, privacy hardening, theming, custom mascot and his voice,
    whatever makes you happy.

FAQ (quick hits)

  • Cloud required? No. Optional remote access if you want it.
  • Apartment-friendly? Yep. Works fine with Wi-Fi cams and a small NUC/RPi.
  • What gear? I’ll reuse what Ebay has or you where it makes sense and sometimes not. Or new.
  • Is this open? Built on open platforms; your config is exportable and documented.

Call to action

If you want personalized, local, not-boring home security with a personality, I’ll spec it, build it, and hand it off clean.

Email: 10@r10.wtf
Subject: “Coyote me.” (Yes, really.)

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