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It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell · Bit Nebula (blog.vghaisas.com)
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[–] 47 points 1 week ago (5 children)

My doorbell is a button that completes a circuit. Still works.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 child)

    My doorbell is a sign that says "Knock", because my 70's doorbell is broken. It requires 0 cloud services to fix the problem of people pressing an unhelpful button.

    [EDIT] To people downvoting this, did you read the article? Specifically, this part:

    "Before we had the doorbell, people just knocked on the front door. But now, people would notice the doorbell and ring it instead. This would send a notification to our phones, and then it would also helpfully play a sound on the doorbell itself… outside the door… which we could not hear."

    He then goes on a tech bodgeathon to fix the button, instead of just placing a sing that says "Knock" to go back to the thing that worked before.

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