Would be interesting to know if we can flash a new firmware onto this. Funnily enough I think I have one of these in my "shit to poke at" pile
Anyone on the Internet Can Ring Your Doorbell
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#82If you want to do some fun hacking project, Temu and similar websites are a trove of insecure cheap IoT devices made with almost 0 security consideration. Security camera, car chargers, sport tracking devices, etc. If you are a bad actor, that is also probably a very easy way to find new ways to enroll devices in your botnet.
I think they’re more secure by the virtue of being niche. Nobody will build an exploit chain to sniff for and target these devices.
By the virtue of being cheap garbage, they actually sell very well and can be found quite a lot in the wild. So they are not that niche.
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#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
Me too. You can put it on a separate VLAN with no internet access and watch it via your own app eg Home Assistant, Frigate, Zoneminder or whatever.
I have a Reolink but haven't got to Home Assistant yet. I'm happy switching to that, but for less technical (though still digital savvy) spouses - how would you say the switch would be for them?
I'd say it depends on what you are trying to do. If it is simple device control and media playing and other stuff, then all you need is to update [dashboards](https://www.home-assistant.io/dashboards/) when you add/move devices and the users will find it pretty easy and straightforward. My parents are not extremely tech savvy but they find Home Assistant easy to use when I make the dashboards thoughtfully.
Making automations and scripts is getting easier every update, but it has a small learning curve as the logic can get complex and you sometimes need to know details like entity IDs or raw states. And there are some simple missing features that some people are very used to. Home Assistant is improving that sort of thing constantly, but sometimes the device APIs do not allow all functionality without the OEM apps.
For example, the two biggest camera-related things that are missing in my opinion is that the camera viewer does not allow zoom or two way talk. It uses the native browser media player, and on both a Samsung tablet and all iOS devices, this means that you cannot zoom and pan around the image. This is obviously not an issue if you embed a dashboard such as Frigate into the HA UI, which IIRC supports both two way talk and zoom. But YMMV.
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#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's not "most consumer use cases". I have not once in my entire life had to scan 40 pages at once. I bet I've never done more than 15 at once. For the once in a blue moon that I need to scan 40 double-sided pages I'd just go to my local print shop.
You don't do much bureaucracy in your personal life (mortgages, moving around, children, or just keeping things as they are). I do similar things few times per year on average, and I don't do anything exceptional. Plus living in a village, closest printing shop is maybe 10 minutes by drive. Scanner and good printer is a basic need in 2026.
I moved 5 times between 2015 and 2021 (air force), during which time I bought and sold houses at each move, have two kids in school, and I've never had to scan documents.
They're all e-signature.
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have a Reolink but haven't got to Home Assistant yet. I'm happy switching to that, but for less technical (though still digital savvy) spouses - how would you say the switch would be for them?
I'd say it depends on what you are trying to do. If it is simple device control and media playing and other stuff, then all you need is to update [dashboards]( https://www.home-assistant.io/dashboards/ ) when you add/move devices and the users will find it pretty easy and straightforward. My parents are not extremely tech savvy but they find Home Assistant easy to use when I make the dashboards thoughtfully. Making a…
Thank you! I will have to give it a try.
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#86Can ring this Temu doorbell.
An attack that could remotely ring my old-fashioned hard-wired doorbell would be really cool to read about. It's the classic electromechanical style with an AC line transformer wired directly between the chime & the button.
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English is not my native language but I consider myself a fairly advanced speaker - I hold a C2 level language certificate, lived in London, etc. These are exactly the kinds of sentences that would have gotten us outstanding grades as students of the language. I used to be proud of sentences like the latter in the above quote. I can't fathom how learning languages will change in the coming years.
> These are exactly the kinds of sentences that would have gotten us outstanding grades as students of the language. Not at all? They are not even full sentences... I get that you might like the style, but there is no need for hyperbole.
I don't _like_ them. It's just perplexing that these are the kinds of phrases our teachers would have praised us for and now they're red flags.
They annoy me just as much.
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#88OT: do many people who come to your door actually ring your doorbell? 95% of people who come to my door, which has a doorbell and does not have a knocker, knock.
Do people just prefer knocking nowadays? Have Ring type doorbells become so common that people don't realize that a simple pushbutton beside the door with no camera can be a doorbell?
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Yes, I stopped reading here: > $12 on the front. Whole-network compromise on the back. Too bad since the topic on its own seems very interesting.
English is not my native language but I consider myself a fairly advanced speaker - I hold a C2 level language certificate, lived in London, etc. These are exactly the kinds of sentences that would have gotten us outstanding grades as students of the language. I used to be proud of sentences like the latter in the above quote. I can't fathom how learning languages will change in the coming years.
> These are exactly the kinds of sentences that would have gotten us outstanding grades as students of the language.
You're abusing "us" here. There are billions of ESL learners, and the group you're part of who receive outstanding grades for that kind of sentence makes up a tiny percentage. The overwhelming majority would not.
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#90OT: do many people who come to your door actually ring your doorbell? 95% of people who come to my door, which has a doorbell and does not have a knocker, knock. Do people just prefer knocking nowadays? Have Ring type doorbells become so common that people don't realize that a simple pushbutton beside the door with no camera can be a doorbell?
I think that eeally depends on regions. Where I am located, nobody will ever knock and everybody uses the door bell.