It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell · Bit Nebula
It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell
It all started in the winter of 2024. There was a burglary in our apartment building and we decided we needed to invest in our home’s security. The …Bit Nebula
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in reply to Zarxrax • • •There are downsides to consider...
There's options for decent-looking doorbell cameras without all the fuss. I use Amcrest, I know a lot of others use Reolink
MonkderVierte
in reply to glimse • • •They are the same picture meme.
glimse
in reply to MonkderVierte • • •doorbell camera next to a security camera photograph.
The psychological effect of a security camera (do I really need to clarify bullet and dome cameras?) is different than a doorbell camera.
pHr34kY
in reply to diesisteinusername • • •I was tempted to run PoE to the other side of the wall where my server is. A doorbell that could do it all locally on my server.
Then I thought "fuck it" and bolted an 1800s brass bell there instead.
Crylos
in reply to diesisteinusername • • •Reolink for the win in my opinion.
Of course a nice brass bell as indicated would work too.
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in reply to Carlos Solís • • •If your freezer is on your local wifi and your computer is also on the local wifi you should be able to see all the packets it is transmitting over the wifi with Wireshark on your computer. If either your computer or freezer has a hard connection then you'll need a little more trickery as switches/home routers minimise network congestion by directing traffic to specific MAC addresses as required.
Assuming you are all wifi, basically you load Wireshark (is free software, easily downloaded) and tell it to capture all packets from your wifi adaptor (there should be a handy option on the initial screen when you load the application). Once you start capturing you'll be capturing everything on your wifi so it pays to be quick with what you want to achieve to minimise the data.
So, once you start capturing you open your fridge door a few times, leave it open till it beeps, maybe do that twice, then stop capturing. Following that you will just need to filter the capture by all packets from your fridges network IP or MAC (you should be able to find these from your home router).
... Mostrar másIf your freezer is on your local wifi and your computer is also on the local wifi you should be able to see all the packets it is transmitting over the wifi with Wireshark on your computer. If either your computer or freezer has a hard connection then you'll need a little more trickery as switches/home routers minimise network congestion by directing traffic to specific MAC addresses as required.
Assuming you are all wifi, basically you load Wireshark (is free software, easily downloaded) and tell it to capture all packets from your wifi adaptor (there should be a handy option on the initial screen when you load the application). Once you start capturing you'll be capturing everything on your wifi so it pays to be quick with what you want to achieve to minimise the data.
So, once you start capturing you open your fridge door a few times, leave it open till it beeps, maybe do that twice, then stop capturing. Following that you will just need to filter the capture by all packets from your fridges network IP or MAC (you should be able to find these from your home router). Once you have all the packets you should be able to click on them and expand all the details to see what data they are sending and where it's being sent to. You should also see all the packets coming back from the vendor.
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MonkderVierte
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in reply to MonkderVierte • • •GitHub - OliveTin/OliveTin: OliveTin gives safe and simple access to predefined shell commands from a web interface.
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in reply to MonkderVierte • • •Oh that's a silly question. Why not?
The honest answer is in the US all doorbells are powered by simple 24VAC transformers that burn 6–7 watts just being powered up, forever, for decades. This annoyed me plus I wanted a fun bell so I wired up a pi to use a modern, efficient 24VDC power supy to ring the bell and it gets turned on by the pi only when its needed so now my idle wattage is more like 0.25W.
RamRabbit
in reply to diesisteinusername • • •Nurgus
in reply to RamRabbit • • •OP's purpose was video security, not doorbells. People pushing the button instead of knocking was an unintentional consequence.
Your 70s doorbell is not helpful.
Strider
in reply to diesisteinusername • • •Apologies if someone is offended by the following. It's not meant as an offense, but a professional opinion about design and Implementation.
This is a really good example of absolutely not keeping it simple and utilizing so many dependencies you'd need to monitor to be sure your solution works that the overall design is just plain bad.
If you ever implement something and get caught in so many things, take a step back and think about how your goal could be achieved in a much simpler way or even if your requirements are that important in the first place.
Anyhow. 5c from a tech guy.
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in reply to diesisteinusername • • •I have a wireless doorbell with a speaker that plugs in to an outlet.
I'd much like to replace it with a zigbee-button, but I've had issues finding a foolproof (wife-approved) zigbee thing to make the ding-dong-noise.