Snap (Most recent guy using my Mac)

This project is for my mom for her missing me and wanna see my face. ❤️

A Snap (this Snap, not the Snapchat Snap) subscriber (AKA my mother) will receive an email containing a snapshot of me once I open my Mac lid, and everyone can also open up this link (down for now) to see the Most recent guy using my Mac.

Via the link, a visiter can see:

Capture Images

This project works with Snoop Catcher (by MacDaddy), which captures images when Mac lid is opened.

Detect Faces

It detects faces with Haar Feature-based Cascade Classifiers in OpenCV with following parameters (which have been tested for performance):

• scaleFactor: 1.025
• minNeighbors: 3
• minSize: 30 x 30

Send Emails

On Mar 18, 2016, my VIP user, AKA my dear mom, complained to me about the webpage loading really slow, and I assume this is because the server and the user are kinda across the Pacific. So I added the functionality of sending emails in script. (Well, these aren't always working and I am still trying to figure them out)

Use command mail

What I used is the command mail with uuencode to attach the image:

os.system('(echo "%s"; uuencode %s "%s") | mail -s "%s" %s' % ("This snap is taken at " + time.strftime('%X %x') + '.\n', os.path.join(SCRIPT_DIR, imageFileName), imageFileName, SUBJECT, RECEIVER))  

Use Python packages smtplib and email.mime

An example on python.org and a RECEIVER will get something like:

Self-terminate

The application will self-terminate (uhh, there must be a better word) in a week from the moment it starts to run. I just feel like it is the right thing to this.

Acknowledgement

A million thanks to Tongjia Shi for his building the ground code