Re:It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell
by vghaisas on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @09:05AM
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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 mini?
True. My cameras (none outdoors though) are WiFi connected, and run tiny little individual UPSes too, saves recording locally to SD card and to a NAS, which also mean you need UPS for your WiFi network+NAS if you go this way. I'm running it with Frigate, and communicate over MQTT to Home Assistant, so cameras can be viewed in HA and react to events and so on.
This setup hasn't been problem free though, not sure if it's the cameras that overheat or something, but I need to reboot them every 48h or so, or they lock up, but at least Frigate been working out well for me.
> After a few days of digging around for answers (I even asked gpt-4o, but no luck),
I'm surprised GPT didn't suggest a local HA setup, when I went looking some years ago when I first got started with HA, Zigbee and everything 100% local seemed like the obvious solution based on what I found around in the HA communities.