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HA Doorbell (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 7 months ago by synestine@sh.itjust.works to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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Until recently I had been using an EZVIZ DB1C doorbell. I researched before I got it, and it worked immediately when bought. Then the company started playing dirty pool. Over the next two firmware updates (WIth nothing in the notes beyond "bugfixes and imrprovements") they stripped out the ability to use a local RTSP stream then they stripped out the ability to use their Windows-only software to even re-enable any functionality. Then they jerked me around for over a month before they finally copped to what the company had done.

And of course there's no way back to a working firmware.

I know people have mentioned Reolink and Amcrest before, but those models are no longer available.

Is there anything in the way of wired, mechanical-bell compatible doorbell cameras that work with HomeAssistant?

I'm so sick of companies that sell you one thing, then strip out the functionality that made it useful, shoving you into their cloud/app shit or leaving you stranded on whatever firmware the thing came with.

GRR

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[–] Maestro@fedia.io 6 points 7 months ago (7 children)

What do you mean that Reolink is not available? You can get them easily and they work great with HA and Frigate.

[–] synestine@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago (6 children)

All the Reolink doorbells I can find that look like HA/Frigate compatible have a stupid electronic chime that won't work for my situation. I need something capable of ringing the mechanical bells otherwise this will fail the WAF check.

[–] Maestro@fedia.io 3 points 7 months ago

You can use an ESP32 to ring the mechanical bells via HA when someone presses the doorbell

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