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Home Assistant is open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server. Available for free at home-assistant.io

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Tired of Jeff Bezos controlling your doorbell cam? I made a privacy focused one that's based on an ESP32 with local Home Assistant integration. (tristam.ie)

submitted 11 months ago by thatguy_ie to c/homeassistant

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago (13 children)

I am all for local however my biggest issues with video doorbells tends to be the field of view, image quality and operating temperature ranges.

I live in a climate where +30C and -20C will happen at least for a few days a year and quite often I have seen doorbells just go offline below when it gets cold outside or physically degrade in the heat.

I want a highly durable device. These ESPCam devices kinda have crap optics, I want to clearly identify people in the dark.

[–] sramder 7 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Sounds like a much more complicated problem… maybe resistive heater would be enough? I’m assuming there isn’t any problem with the cold other than the whole thing icing over.

Better optics/camera is probably where it all falls apart… you’re not getting it out of a pre-made $8 dev board any time soon.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It’s the battery. A lot of doorbell cameras have an internal battery to keep the camera powered when the chime is rung. A few of my friends have to replace their unifi doorbell cameras once a year after winter