Home Assistant offers a centralized platform for smart home devices sans cloud sharing. Integrating the Ring Video Doorbell ...

The doorbell detection is surprising but simple and non-intrusive, instead of running a GPIO line through some kind of interface to the button itself he’s added a reed switch to his ESP8266 ...

The face also holds a microphone, an ambient light sensor, and a doorbell button bordered by an LED ring that glows blue when the button is pressed. A small speaker is located on the bottom edge.

In the middle is the doorbell button itself which lights up different colours according to its mode (for example, solid blue during charging and red when recording footage). Underneath the ...