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by vghaisas 18d ago
Yeah, will probably have to consider something like that.
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by vghaisas 18d ago
Yeah this would have been my answer, except for one catch: what do I do with the existing integrated button on the Blink doorbell?
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by vghaisas 18d ago
Oh, can a Dash button talk to my Google home mini? I imagined it would be the same problem I currently have. A zigbee button/doorbell would work well, but then we'd have two buttons on the front door unless we hid the Blink's
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by vghaisas 18d ago
Yeah, a Blink chime is definitely a solution. But after feeling like I got a great deal on a cheap doorbell, I didn't want to buy yet another thing from them. I also thought it would have been easy to play audio on the Google home and
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by vghaisas 18d ago
When I started my search, I thought this £30 doorbell would be good enough and I wouldn't need the £180 Nest doorbell. Little did I know...
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by vghaisas 18d ago
It's just a few seconds and a lot of that is the HA polling interval.
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by vghaisas 18d ago
It takes a few seconds, but a lot of that is just the HA polling interval.
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by vghaisas 18d ago
Oh our London flat has no pre-installed doorbell at all! This is surprisingly common and everyone just knocks. But yes, there were definitely other ways to solve this problem.
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by vghaisas 20d ago
I thought it was finally time to write up the story of my absurd home doorbell implementation, especially because the upcoming Samsung SmartThings API pricing means things will have to change soon. Suggestions welcome!
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It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell(blog.vghaisas.com)
242 points by vghaisas 20d ago|268 comments
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by vghaisas 23d ago
Interesting info about the cameras, thanks! > I'm surprised GPT didn't suggest a local HA setup I had already bought the Blink doorbell at the time, so I was specifically asking: how do I make it play a sound on my Google home
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by vghaisas 24d ago
That was actually the original title! It's still the URL though :)
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by vghaisas 24d ago
Yeah, a local solution is probably the way to go. This was at the beginning of my home automation journey so I didn't have Home Assistant and Zigbee set up yet. But even if I replace the actual doorbell with a zigbee button, I still ne
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by vghaisas 24d ago
I thought it was finally time to write up the story of my absurd home doorbell implementation, especially because the upcoming Samsung SmartThings API pricing means things will have to change soon. Suggestions welcome!
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It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell(blog.vghaisas.com)
3 points by vghaisas 24d ago|8 comments
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Picovoice Discointinues Free Tier(console.picovoice.ai)
3 points by vghaisas 4mo ago|2 comments
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by vghaisas 4mo ago
Got an email: Picovoice is sunsetting its Free Tier and moving to a 7-day Free Trial for product teams. This change will take effect on June 30, 2026.
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Picovoice Discointinues Free Tier(console.picovoice.ai)
2 points by vghaisas 4mo ago|1 comments
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by vghaisas 4mo ago
Got an email: Picovoice is sunsetting its Free Tier and moving to a 7-day Free Trial for product teams. This change will take effect on June 30, 2026.
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Visual Explainer Agent Skill(github.com)
2 points by vghaisas 7mo ago|0 comments
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by vghaisas 7mo ago
Oh I did read the README, but still have the question: while it does save on cost, latency and complexity, the tradeoff is that the agents can't run whatever they want in a sandbox, which would make them less capable too.
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by vghaisas 7mo ago
This is very cool, but I'm having some trouble understanding the use cases. Is this mostly just for codemode where the MCP calls instead go through a Monty function call? Is it to do some quick maths or pre/post-processing to answ
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by vghaisas 7mo ago
This is very cool, but I'm having some trouble understanding the use cases. Is this mostly just for codemode where the MCP calls instead go through a Monty function call? Is it to do some quick maths or pre/post-processing to answ
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by vghaisas 8mo ago
I've collected a list of fun stories of this form and post them when this comes up: - Car allergic to vanilla ice cream: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~wkw/humour/carproblems.txt - Can't log in when standing up
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by vghaisas 9mo ago
You might enjoy these AI generated clocks: https://clocks.brianmoore.com/
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by vghaisas 10mo ago
In 2021, between jobs, I did some light data analysis and visualisation on the topics that Matt Levine writes about in Money Stuff and enjoyed seeing some trends, so I blogged about it! I also emailed it to Matt, who included it in his &quo
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What Matt Levine Writes about (The Rise and Fall of WeWork and GameStop) (2021)(blog.vghaisas.com)
1 points by vghaisas 10mo ago|1 comments
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Upgrading 6M domains by default to get ready for the Quantum Future(blog.cloudflare.com)
2 points by vghaisas 1y ago|0 comments
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by vghaisas 1y ago
Came across this list in the comments of this discussion, lots of great stories here! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44466030 My personal list of stories of this kind includes: - Car allergic to vanilla ice cream: ht
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by vghaisas 1y ago
I collected a list of fun stories of this form a while ago! - Car allergic to vanilla ice cream: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~wkw/humour/carproblems.txt - Can't log in when standing up: https://www.redd

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