• Mex@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    I saw this and thought it cool, but worried about water ingress if I was to us it at home. Also no hookup to the existing bell wiring (though that wouldn’t be hard to add).

    • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukOPM
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      1 year ago

      Yeah that seems to be an issue as the camera hole isn’t sealed. It’s a first pass and I don’t think it’d be too difficult to tweak the design to add rubber seals. Being able to use the existing wiring might need a more radical re-design but the beauty of an open project like that is that, if it’s useful, it’ll be improved upon.

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        1 year ago

        wouldn’t mid external power as long as it could ring the house bell, I would even be happy with a double throw button so that part was mechanical. I like graceful fallback for when I break my HA install (again).

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          1 year ago

          That and external power are key - a good percentage of battery powered smart doorbells don’t work at all. Having something running off the mains that triggers another mains powered bell means you have a working doorbell at all times.

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    1 year ago

    There is a business selling kits and prebuilds for this kind of thing. There are consumers who want this kind of thing and just don’t have much time for projects.

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        1 year ago

        Thinking OpenEVSE as an example of this. Or all those selling ESP devices preflashed with Tasmota.

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    1 year ago

    Damn! I need to look into this.

    Google assitant is unbearable now and i’ve recently started branching out.

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      Report back your findings - it definitely seems to be a direction of travel people are favouring and is a good fit for the Fediverse mentality. I am.just not sure I have the time or brain power to start tearing it all down and starting again, but I could definitely see me dabbling.