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I used to have a Ring and became concerned about privacy once Amazon took over. Worse, all it used to capture was delivery people’s backs - by the time it would see motion the action was almost over. That’s when it captured anything at all - it used to miss a lot.

Reolink doesn’t require any Internet access - even for initial setup. People detection works great with Frigate and you can tell it to start recording before motion is detected so you don’t miss anything.

Full disclosure, it does take some fiddling to get it working reliably. I still don’t have 2 way audio working.

The Pixel 3 and the Pixel 3a both support eSIM.

(The Pixel 2 sort of did but only for Google Fi.)

The Pixel 3 briefly supported DSDS (pSIM+ eSIM) in a beta but it was removed before general release.

Pixel 3a was the first Pixel to officially support DSDS.

Since you’re already running Hass why not set up Media Assistant. Connect your speakers to a Raspberry Pi running piCorePlayer.

I have a few around the house and they work great.

Media Assistant is still a work in progress. If that’s a problem for you you can use Logitech Media Server instead, which is what I was using until recently.

When I was still playing with it and it was sitting on my desk I did notice that it ran a bit warm. Not hot enough to be a concern but now you have me thinking it might be an advantage in cooler climates. The lack of a battery makes me less concerned about cold as well. I’ve only had it a few months but it seems far more reliable than the Ring doorbell I’d been using previously. I do have it rebooting nightly but I haven’t had to touch it in months. Winters here don’t often go below 0F anymore. I guess I’ll see how it goes.

Homebridge might be worth a shot. I know its Nest integration is better in some ways than HA’s native integration.

“The open source part of iVentoy” is on GitHub. Perhaps it’s not completely open?

I may have a dud. We’ll see. I finally started getting responses yesterday. Seems their help desk system was upgraded and the email was broken?

What y’all talking about? The original was originally black and white.

That is one expensive doorbell!

It used to work. I’m not surprised he found someone to disable it. He seems determined to make the place as painful as he can.

First thing I did after he bought Twitter is block him. Did I hurt his feelings?

(Not that I follow what’s going on with Twitter anymore since I found Mastodon.)