Comment on Amazon is forcibly upgrading Prime members to Alexa Plus, and users are not happy
Ch3rry314@piefed.social 21 hours ago
Speaking of which, is there a good open source alternative?
My god. Duckduckgo “open doorbell”… uh, no, not “the best video doorbells” or “wireless open doorbell chimes”.
Fine “foss doorbel” it is.
U what??
yeah fuck you.
Alternative question: any search engine or ddg/google hack to strictly keep shopping to the feckin shopping category?!
Do you need the doorbell hardware itself to be open source? Or just compatible with self hosted open source software?
If just the latter take a look at Reolink products. You can block their internet access and they still work great locally with Home Assistant and whatever NVR you want. DoorBird and a few others have HA support as well.
NinjaTurtle@feddit.online 20 hours ago
To the Alexa interface?
Dave@lemmy.nz 14 hours ago
Worth noting you need both the speaker part and the server part. Home assistant sells both as out of the box ready to go but you do need both parts.
It’s also worth noting it’s a Preview Edition, as in not yet consumer ready.
It works but you will find quirks, and will find things it can’t do that you’d expect it to, and things it can do that others can’t.
It’s also very customisable, if you’re a bit technical (honestly you don’t need to be that technical these days, it has come a long way).