• Nurgus@lemmy.world
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    2 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.

    • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz
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      21 hours 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.