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#doorbell

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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

Frances McDoorbell, the postwoman, has pointed out issues with our doorbell.

Seems somehow being mounted in a metal house on a metal post was blocking its feeble radio signal!

Opened it up and wired it to an external antenna that now sticks up from the metal post.

Bonus: It looks like a remote trigger for a bomb (no pic, its dark and snowy).

A HAM enthusiast should chime in momentarily, telling me all the antenna design crimes this constitutes.

Force-powered (piezo) batteryless, wireless doorbell, opened up. A small PCB is visible and a thin grey wire is the antenna. It has been pulled out and messed around with hotglue, exiting the back of the plastic case, outside the silicone seal.
Closed up doorbell mounted in its metal house. The new antenna wire exits the metal house through a hole, complete with a cut off plastic wall plug for chafe protection. A long loop of wire and some wire cutters are next to it for trimming to length once installed.
#DIY#Doorbell#Homestead
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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

Also got a doorbell. Made a little housing for it with a piece from the zinc scrap pile.

The wireless doorbell is pretty clever: Instead of using a battery and finding out it's empty because you missed a delivery, it has no battery at all. Instead, it generates enough power to squirt a radio message to the receiver from the force of the finger pushing the button to ring the bell. Clever.

A pile of dull silver coloured metal partially overgrown with weeds. There's pieces of airduct and a short bit of pipe, the rest is offcuts from sheets. It's galvanized or alloyed with zinc and didn't rust in its time outside.
A piece from the pile on top of an improvised worktop outside. Some tools are strewn around: Hammer, measuring tape, tin snips.
The same metal, now cut to a small piece and bent into a housing for a doorbell button. It has a projecting roof with bent over drip lip, and shorter sides. The button is black with a white label showing a ringing bell. It's mounted on a steel fence post with yellow paint, next to the green letterbox from yesterday.
#DIY#Steel#Zinc
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🧿🪬🍄🌈🎮💻🚲🥓🎃💀🏴🛻🇺🇸

My #EufySecurity Homebase started running it's fan constantly all of a sudden, and it almost never shuts off.

I installed a HDD last year. It's not storing more recordings than it used to.

Since it's #Chinese I have to wonder if it's surveilling my network 😕

Maybe it's time to invest in a better #security #camera #doorbell

mas.to/@schizanon/109598731933

mas.to🍄🌈🎮💻🚲🥓🎃💀🏴🛻🇺🇸 (@schizanon@mas.to)Attached: 1 image Just got my new #EufySecurity S380 Homebase. I bought the first one on Kickstarter, and I was disappointed when their new doorbell cameras didn't support it because it meant I had to have two devices connected to my network and the Homebase 2 doesn't have expandable storage. Well #Eufy / #Anker must've heard my complaints because this new one has a slot for a HARD DRIVE!!
#Anker#eufy#EufyCam
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brad m

#artificialintelligence #surveillance #authoritarian

80-year-old #billionaire
Founder of #Oracle
“#LarryEllison … outlined a scenario where #AI models would analyze footage from #security #cameras, #police #bodycams, #doorbell #cameras, and vehicle #dashcams”
😳 “Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on”
“significant questions about #privacy, #civilliberties, and the potential for abuse” arstechnica.com/information-te

Ars Technica · Omnipresent AI cameras will ensure good behavior, says Larry EllisonBy Benj Edwards
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Blue Ghost

OpenStreetMap supports mapping doorbell surveillance cameras such as Amazon Ring.

Instructions for the iD editor.

Select: Edit > Add Feature (Point) > Feature Type (Surveillance Camera) > Fields > Camera Mount (Doorbell) > Add Field (Description and Manufacturer fields are available in the drop down menu) > Save

OpenStreetMap post: mastodon.online/@blueghost/111

Website: openstreetmap.org
Mastodon: @openstreetmap

OpenStreetMap logo.
#OpenStreetMap#Doorbell#Surveillance
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This Is My Glasgow

I was intrigued by this door bell on Loudon Terrace in the West End of Glasgow which seems to have been altered many times over the years. A bit of digging revealed it's been there for 125 years, and bears the name of George W. Sellars, a painter and decorator who lived at this address in 1899. He had two offices, one round the corner at 355 Byres Road (now occupied by a Waterstones bookshop) and another on West George Street.

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An old metal door bell with two buttons on it, one with the name Sellars above it, and the other with the name Ballantine above it. It has been altered in a number if ways over the years.
#glasgow#glasgowhistory#doorfurniture
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