Hey guys. I’m looking for a more economical doorbell camera than the Ring doorbell and came across good reviews for Zmodo Greet (https://www.amazon.com/Zmodo-Greet-Video-Doorbell-Extender/dp/B01KT0PNVQ/) . Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, it does not expose a local IP camera. Has anyone gotten this to work with HASS somehow?
Moving beyond this product, does anyone know of a different option outside of the Ring doorbell which is too expensive for my budget? As a last resort, is there an off-the-shelf MQTT doorbell that is powered by the doorbell transformer and can also chime the mechanical bell?
I know this is an old topic, but I’m on the same hunt. I don’t like the Ring because of the required cloud subscription to save any videos. I’d much rather grab something like the Zmodo and access a local video stream. I haven’t been able to find if this is possible for their doorbell products though.
Has anyone looked at this or other Ring alternatives that are (a) powered by the low-voltage doorbell circuit, and (b) offer local video stream access without a cloud subscription?
I never found what I was looking for. I ended up using a Xiaomi door/window sensor near my mechanical doorbell chime to alert when the button is pressed (magnet triggers the reed switch) and set an automation that takes a still image from my outdoor camera and sends it to me via pushbullet.
I saw someone tied an old Android phone with Tasker that would start a SIP call with sound over a bluetooth shower speaker mounted outside. I have plans to try this to add the communications element but using Hangouts. It’s pretty hacky but it would fit right in with all my other kludges.
Just this weekend I tried to do that same thing with my doorbell chime, with two different door/window sensors, and I couldn’t get either of them to trigger – even when it was literally touching the magnetic coil around the chime hammer.
this saves it to a file, strange thing on this is you can see your ssid and encryption password in plain text. just run the command for a few seconds then read the h264 file.
idk try it out see what you can do with it, ive only tried the 2nd choice been to lazy to boot linux to a desktop and try the 1st, it didnt work for me using x11 forwarding on a ssh tunnel, ill try it sooner or later.