Just rings for now, going to expand functionality later to handle authentication for unlocking the door and maybe other things lol

  • @accideath
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    At his old company, my dad got a 500€ bonus because he wrote a MS Outlook macro to automate some specific email to excel and/or calendar data transfer (I think, been a while). As my dad is a huge TNG fan (initiating me into the fandom at a young age after literally naming me in part after his fav captain), the UI was obviously also based on LCARS.

  • NegativeNullM
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    Next, you’ll need to make your doors slide open, with a “shoosh” sound effect as well.

    Super cool project!!

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      It gets expensive after a while paying the two dudes to stand there all day and move them.

    • @cm0002OP
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      Oh believe me, I’ve spent a decent chunk of time exploring ways to make it practical, I haven’t find any good way to pull it off for most doors in my house unfortunately :(

      Maybe if I ever get to the point where I can have a new house built…

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    Please be sure to ground it, there are too many unnecessary console deaths.

    • @cm0002OP
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      Don’t worry, it should be fine as long as the EPS relays don’t overload, but what are the chances of that happening lmao

    • jrs100000
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      Maybe fill it with rocks, you know to help weight it down or something?

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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      And install fuses! Apparently that technology was lost in the 23rd century.

      • @mercano
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        Instructions unclear, installed explosive rocks.

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    I hope after someone hits “ring” it goes into a warp core eject countdown.

    • @cm0002OP
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      I used a cheap WT32-SC01 Plus which integrates the screen with an esp32 package with breakouts for other useful things, like a speaker header, and flashed with openHASP

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    What’s the power consumption on that? Does the screen go to sleep?

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      I never bothered to look I wasn’t planning on battery power. I’m powering this off the existing doorbell transformer and wiring with AC to DC buck converter

      Though from time to time I had it powered off my laptop USB and that only delivers 500ma so I can’t imagine it’d be very much

      Screen sleeps, but I wasn’t originally going to keep it that way, but people just seem to instinctively tap it to wake and tap the ring button without issue so I’ve decided to leave it to extend the displays life

      • @hark
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        If color e-paper displays come down in price enough, it seems like this would be a good use case.

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        Even if it’s not battery powered, I personally would be conscious of the energy inefficiency. But I would be fine with it going to sleep. I suppose it should also be possible to automatically wake it up if a person approaches, using a motion sensor.

    • @cm0002OP
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      It will when I wire up the speaker in the old doorbell chime spot lol

    • @cm0002OP
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      Entryway is deeply recessed, so my front door is never really all that exposed to rain/snow/wind, but it seems fine with temperature swings between 20-75, but it wasn’t online for the summer so I’m unsure how 85+ will be

  • @[email protected]
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    You could use the space for your house number, current weather and some other data. Really nice work!

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    Nice! Is this the Lovelace lcars plugin? I use that myself!

    • @cm0002OP
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      Lovalace LCARS plugin?

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          Oh neat, though I do use HA, I don’t plan on using it’s dashboard very much. My plan is to use it mostly for a central hub for hooking in IoT devices so I’m not reinventing the wheel every time I add something new lol and then I’ll build my own LCARS, that’ll just use HAs API over top of that

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            Have you integrated the doorbell with HA yet? Adding mine has been dead useful.
            Eventually I plan to add some logic so if the door isn’t answered within a certain period, the lights in the house start flashing.

            Also, I think you’re absolutely smack on with your plans for HA, that’s how I use it.
            Get everything talking openly to one platform as a central point.
            Then link everything together using that platform.