# \[APP\]\[PRO\] License Plate Recognition for Homey **URL:** \ **Category:** Apps\ **Tags:** app\ **Created:** [May 4, 2020, 1:19pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-license-plate-recognition-for-homey/29338 "2020-05-04T13:19:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gruijter](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/gruijter/32/1973_2.png) [@Gruijter](https://community.homey.app/u/Gruijter)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2020, 1:19pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-license-plate-recognition-for-homey/29338/1 "2020-05-04T13:19:25Z")
# ANPR > **[License Plate Recognition | Homey](https://homey.app/en-us/app/com.gruijter.anpr/License-Plate-Recognition/)** > > License plate recognition for Homey ## License plate recognition for Homey Use snapshots from a camera connected to Homey, and let Platerecognizer do AI based licence plate recognition. For every plate the app detects, a flow will be triggered. The app will also provide vehicle type and region. ![ANPR](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/6/f/6f0957c6d850fb69e8c70c1838c33abe8027ca8a.jpeg) ## Use cases - Presence detection - Security - Open garage door - Fun ## Privacy The Homey app uses a cloud based license plate recognition service called Platerecognizer. Using the Platerecognizer service has privacy implications. Use at own risk. Read and understand your local privacy legislation, and the terms of use from Platerecognizer. ## Performance The free Platerecognizer service allows you to upload 2500 images per month. The plate detection usually is ready within 1 to 3 seconds from uploading an image (via an action flowcard). ## Test image To make testing your flow easier, a test image is available as global image token. It has license plates of two cars and a motor cycle. ![ANPR](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/3/a/3ad14d18b336841922871f43b577d74b1bdd893c.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Gruijter](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/gruijter/32/1973_2.png) [@Gruijter](https://community.homey.app/u/Gruijter)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2020, 1:19pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-license-plate-recognition-for-homey/29338/2 "2020-05-04T13:19:34Z")
WORK IN PROGRESS COMING REALLY SOON TO YOUR HOMEY 🙂 This app is off course a spin-off of the very successful Face++ app for Face Recognition. [https://community.homey.app/t/29058](https://community.homey.app/t/29058) ![scooters_500_350](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/6/f/6f0957c6d850fb69e8c70c1838c33abe8027ca8a.jpeg) ![automobile-automotive-car-show-cars](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/3/a/3ad14d18b336841922871f43b577d74b1bdd893c.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Wayne\_Holly](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/wayne_holly/32/16792_2.png) [@Wayne\_Holly](https://community.homey.app/u/Wayne_Holly)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 3:15am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-license-plate-recognition-for-homey/29338/3 "2020-05-05T03:15:33Z")
> [@Gruijter](#): > > Platerecognizer can’t wait for this app to be released… ---
**Author:** ![Gruijter](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/gruijter/32/1973_2.png) [@Gruijter](https://community.homey.app/u/Gruijter)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 6:46am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-license-plate-recognition-for-homey/29338/4 "2020-05-07T06:46:21Z")
> [@Wayne\_Holly](#): > > can’t wait for this app to be released… If you can’t wait: CLI install from Github [https://github.com/gruijter/com.gruijter.anpr](https://github.com/gruijter/com.gruijter.anpr) 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Tangodelta](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/tangodelta/32/9471_2.png) [@Tangodelta](https://community.homey.app/u/Tangodelta)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 9:08am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-license-plate-recognition-for-homey/29338/5 "2020-05-07T09:08:32Z")
Works beautifully! Won`t last long though, 2500 free api searches a month. Flow setup (in case mye wifes lover comes by without my knowledge) ---
**Author:** ![Gruijter](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/gruijter/32/1973_2.png) [@Gruijter](https://community.homey.app/u/Gruijter)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 11:05am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-license-plate-recognition-for-homey/29338/6 "2020-05-07T11:05:43Z")
> [@Tangodelta](#): > > Won`t last long though, 2500 free api searches a month. 😂 that is over 80 plate searches per day. Do you live on the highway? ---
**Author:** ![Tangodelta](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/tangodelta/32/9471_2.png) [@Tangodelta](https://community.homey.app/u/Tangodelta)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 11:07am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-license-plate-recognition-for-homey/29338/7 "2020-05-07T11:07:41Z")
😂 My wife has a lot of traffic… ---
**Author:** ![Tangodelta](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/tangodelta/32/9471_2.png) [@Tangodelta](https://community.homey.app/u/Tangodelta)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 11:57am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-license-plate-recognition-for-homey/29338/8 "2020-05-07T11:57:19Z")
Any idea how to limit image uploads? Each one counts as one search, plate detection or not… ---
**Author:** ![Gruijter](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/gruijter/32/1973_2.png) [@Gruijter](https://community.homey.app/u/Gruijter)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 12:09pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-license-plate-recognition-for-homey/29338/9 "2020-05-07T12:09:25Z")
I guess it depends where your camera is looking at. I have a foscam camera pointed at my own driveway, and I configured the motion detection to not trigger on passing traffic (that would not be allowed anyway 😉). So 80 snapshots per day is enough for me, but I agree it is limited. ---
**Author:** ![KvM](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/kvm/32/6707_2.png) [@KvM](https://community.homey.app/u/KvM)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 2:47pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-license-plate-recognition-for-homey/29338/10 "2020-05-07T14:47:13Z")
Now I just need to learn to drive backwards when entering my driveway with my motorcycle 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![Gruijter](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/gruijter/32/1973_2.png) [@Gruijter](https://community.homey.app/u/Gruijter)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 3:02pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-license-plate-recognition-for-homey/29338/11 "2020-05-07T15:02:09Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/RqfXAu0Vqmk/hqdefault.jpg "HOW TO DO A STOPPIE ON A MOTORCYCLE") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqfXAu0Vqmk) ---
**Author:** ![Tangodelta](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/tangodelta/32/9471_2.png) [@Tangodelta](https://community.homey.app/u/Tangodelta)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 4:13pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-license-plate-recognition-for-homey/29338/12 "2020-05-07T16:13:45Z")
Made 3 api-accounts instead, that gives us 7500! API supports statistics also, possible to implement in app? [https://api.platerecognizer.com/v1/statistics/](https://api.platerecognizer.com/v1/statistics/) ex When: Searches exceeds 2000 and: … Then: Send a notification/change API And if you could change api if the limit is reached based on flow that would be marvellous ---
**Author:** ![Gruijter](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/gruijter/32/1973_2.png) [@Gruijter](https://community.homey.app/u/Gruijter)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 4:42pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-license-plate-recognition-for-homey/29338/13 "2020-05-07T16:42:23Z")
> [@Tangodelta](#): > > API supports statistics also, possible to implement in app? Yes, is on my roadmap list. But first Athom needs to release it in the appstore before I start adding new stuff. 🔜 ---
**Author:** ![robertklep](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/robertklep/32/160628_2.png) [@robertklep](https://community.homey.app/u/robertklep)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 6:32pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-license-plate-recognition-for-homey/29338/14 "2020-05-07T18:32:22Z")
> [@Tangodelta](#): > > Made 3 api-accounts instead, that gives me 7500! Let’s hope the service actually allows this kind of ~~ab~~ use. ---
**Author:** ![Tangodelta](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/tangodelta/32/9471_2.png) [@Tangodelta](https://community.homey.app/u/Tangodelta)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 6:38pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-license-plate-recognition-for-homey/29338/15 "2020-05-07T18:38:42Z")
Abuse? One for myself, one for my wife, and one for my 1 year old daughter. ---
**Author:** ![Gruijter](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/gruijter/32/1973_2.png) [@Gruijter](https://community.homey.app/u/Gruijter)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2020, 7:23pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-license-plate-recognition-for-homey/29338/16 "2020-05-07T19:23:45Z")
> [@robertklep](#): > > Let’s hope the service actually allows this kind of ~~ab~~ use Actually, I just wrestled myself again through the terms of use, and I didn’t find anything on this subject. So it seems allowed. But I’m not a lawyer, so I might misread. And they have the right to change their terms whenever they like. ---
**Author:** ![SossieNL](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/sossienl/32/11341_2.png) [@SossieNL](https://community.homey.app/u/SossieNL)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2020, 6:17am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-license-plate-recognition-for-homey/29338/17 "2020-05-09T06:17:36Z")
I use Sighthound for more than a year now to detect people, cars (including) licenseplates. It’s a mixture of PHP and Homey flows. Would be great to have this in a app, fully on Homey. Like Face++!! > **[Face Recognition, Vehicle Recognition, Face Detection & Person Detection API](https://www.sighthound.com/products/cloud)** > > Industry leading face recognition, vehicle recognition, person detection, and face detection API for developers. Get started for free and add computer vision to your next project. 5000 calls a month. Throttled to 50 per 15minutes. Maybe a good alternative? ---
**Author:** ![Gruijter](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/gruijter/32/1973_2.png) [@Gruijter](https://community.homey.app/u/Gruijter)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2020, 8:07am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-license-plate-recognition-for-homey/29338/18 "2020-05-09T08:07:02Z")
Nice. Will take a look at it! ---
**Author:** ![Gruijter](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/gruijter/32/1973_2.png) [@Gruijter](https://community.homey.app/u/Gruijter)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2020, 2:57pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-license-plate-recognition-for-homey/29338/19 "2020-05-09T14:57:17Z")
The app is now available in the Homey app store 🌞 > **[License Plate Recognition](https://homey.app/en-us/app/com.gruijter.anpr/License-Plate-Recognition/)** > > License plate recognition for Homey ---
**Author:** ![Gruijter](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/gruijter/32/1973_2.png) [@Gruijter](https://community.homey.app/u/Gruijter)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2020, 3:46pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-license-plate-recognition-for-homey/29338/20 "2020-05-10T15:46:23Z")
It was much more work than anticipated, but it works now. Especially for you @Tangodelta 😉 ![Screenshot_20200510-173740_Homey](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/b/d/bdd836c07995d82401ebb0261d71d6345726bdec.jpeg) ![2020-05-10](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/f/4/f4eba04aac83788bdc5d109989f9c615c35c2ae5.png) [Next page](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-license-plate-recognition-for-homey/29338.md?page=2)