• zerofk@lemmy.zip
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      3 days ago

      Yes but I’m sure you need at least 5 different Volts for it to work.

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      3 days ago

      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 days ago

        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.