trago

I will try to get one, thank you for the tip

I know that. My plan was that you go by the sensor, arduino will send signal to your pins or as a keystroke via USB to turn on/wake up PC and then after booting up, Windows Hello will wait for you with face recognition. I didn't think about the BIOS timer, thank you for that. I think I can make use of that And using alarm as you do isn't bad idea either, just to get 7.1 sound system

Thank you for that, I will try it maybe, if nothing else works.

It is, it's written in tags. I know they don't emit IR and I know what they wrote on their page. Apart from that, IR webcams are used, because they don't rely upon visible light. If you use normal webcam, there will be shadows which can make face recognition not work properly. Yes, I am aware of that, but I don't want to deconstruct my webcam, take off IR filter, buy IR Diode and construct it back. That would not solve the problem, because webcam would still be as Webcam in Device Manager, not as Biometric Device.

I know it can be done, but sadly it is not in my capabilty yet. As I said, I don't know how to change description of device (software change non-biometric webcam to biometric) and I can't really find any how-to information.

Turning the PC on isn't a really problem here. As you said, you can do it many cooler ways, but I want it as cheap as it gets and still does its purpose (And make it upgradable of course). My problem, right now, is Windows Hello feature.

Hi everybody, I was thinking whole week about this idea. Imagine, you come home tired from working all day and you don't even want to press the On/Off button on your computer, you just want to sit down and everything should be done by itself. So my idea is pretty simple. All you need is a camera, working PC with Windows 10, motion sensor/pressure sensor and embedded system (Arduino, Raspberry Pi etc.). You will mount sensor on your chair or wall (or something else) depending which sensor you have, embedded system will send signal via wire to your ON PIN on your motherboard or just via USB as keyboard stroke (In this case, you will need to figure it out settings in Windows to wake up computer or in bios to turn on (Not sure about that)). If you have that, next step will be camera and Windows' "new" feature Windows Hello. I will admit, it is where I forfeited. I just wanted to use common webcam which you teorically could use for face recognition with some lights (for me, it will be 3 monitors which surrounds me). But no, Windows Hello will not allow some peasant webcam to work on their precious face recognition feature. I tried to change registry to allow Windows Hello, but with no change. No Face recognition with button "Set", just text "Windows Hello is not available on your device.". I am not skillful enough to go and change drivers properties of webcam, but I figured that if you somehow change them to show webcam like Biometric device and not USB Video Device, it might work. So I want to ask, if somebody here is skillful enough to help me with this little project of mine, I will have czech beer with you and you will have my gratitude forever. If somebody has any improvements or constructive critics, I am all ears. Have a nice day, Trago