OpenBMB shares open-source cat drinking monitor built on MiniCPM-V 4.7

OpenBMB says its ambassador @emwstudio built esp32-eye, an open-source monitor that recognizes individual cats and logs their daily drinking events.

The system runs MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B locally on a MacBook to detect whether a cat is in view, then calls MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B to match the cat against reference photos. Two ESP32-S3 boards supply the camera input.

In a three-day test in a four-cat home, @emwstudio reports 89 drinking events, checked manually, with every cat identified correctly.