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Ideas for self hosted door bell (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by lucullus@discuss.tchncs.de to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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We want a new door bell and we will even be able to run new wires (currently we only have 2 Wires). I would like to have video and 2 way audio locally hosted, though the most important thing is, that the base functionality (door bell button with connected wireless door chimes through the house) needs to be absolutely reliable (no random connectivity issues).

I have found the Acuvox R20A, which is seems to have all the bells and whistles about SIP (audio and video) calls. Though from its documentation it seems, that bell chimes also must use SIP, making it more depending on my network infrastructure and the self hosted SIP server (like Asterisk). I don't see a possibility to trigger a relay on button press for triggering traditional door chimes. Which is a shame, since that would be the most reliable for this basic functionality

Do you have good ideas on how to go with this? Or does it make sense, to break this up and use a more basic door bell, while also adding camera and audio additionally as separate devices?

EDIT: I now decided to buy the Reolink PoE Doorbell. It even has an official integration with Home Assistant. I will see, how good I can get the 2-way audio to run through HA or Frigate

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[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Edit: on re-reading, I think you typo'd not -> now

~~Unifi doesn't need cloud, the storage is local.~~ But unless youre already in the unifi ecosystem, their doorbells are expensive, as you also need poe switch and a cloud key (which is a poorly named local NVR).

[–] ShortN0te@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yes its expensive but also good gear mostly (never used the door bell myself).

PoE switch is not necessary, PoE injectors can be had for couple of bucks used.

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

I've had three cloudkey harddisks die on me, so I'm a little jaded.

Never considered poe injectors because once get get a couple you may as well just have a switch. But if you can get them cheap then sure.

[–] non_burglar@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

but also good gear mostly

I used to believe this. Then I flashed openwrt on my two ubiquiti access points and they are actually more stable and faster.

Ubiquiti is great at marketing.

[–] ShortN0te@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Switches, Security gear, nvr, central local management etc. not really something others can or do offer.

Ia it the best probably not but its still good well functioning equipment, for what it offers.

Just because something else works better, does not mean that it works not good.

[–] non_burglar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ia it the best probably not but its still good well functioning equipment, for what it offers.

Sure, for "power users", maybe a small business, it's fine. It's just not very sophisticated under the hood. The point of Ubiquiti is the "easy" part.

[–] ShortN0te@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

The point is, the anecdotal evidence that you mentioned has nothing to say about other points you are making.

Just because product X runs better in a use case with software Y, does not mean product X is bad.

I do not want to come across like a ubiquity fan boy, since i only use it very targeted privately but the stuff is good, it's supported and a plug and play solution without the cloud. Exactly what fits the bill for what it's asked for here.

It is run in operation by thousands of businesses. Does it have problems, sure, like every other brand.

Have run openWRT myself on one of the latest lite APs, was good. Have not noticed a significant difference in the usage between both.