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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 1 year ago by thatguy_ie@lemmy.world to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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[–] sramder@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 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.

[–] SlovenianSocket@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year 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

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

You'd think that'd be a perfect job for a supercap.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Wow that's wasteful, I'd expect a bit more from ubiquiti kit