domm-f/cameragesturehotkeys

CameraGestureHotkeys is a Windows application that watches your webcam for upper body poses you have saved ahead of time, and presses a keyboard shortcut whenever it recognizes one of them. The README states that camera frames are processed locally on your own computer and are never uploaded or saved anywhere. To create a gesture, you give it a name, type in the keyboard shortcut you want it to trigger, such as ctrl plus shift plus alt plus s, then click a button to capture the pose and hold still while it collects samples of you making that pose. Several settings let you tune how it behaves: match strictness controls how closely you need to match the saved pose before it counts, cooldown sets a minimum time between activations, and hold frames controls how many camera frames in a row need to match before the hotkey fires, trading speed for fewer accidental triggers. There is also a setting to pick which camera to use if the wrong one opens by default. Most people are expected to use a packaged Windows installer that the project can build, which installs the app with a Start menu entry, an optional desktop shortcut, and a normal uninstaller. Developers can instead run it directly from source using Python 3.11, installing the listed dependencies and starting the app with a Python command, since the pose recognition model needed is already included in the repository. Saved gesture profiles are stored in a JSON file in the user's AppData folder, and uninstalling the packaged app removes both the program and these saved gestures. The project is licensed under the MIT License.