Home Automation

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Home automation is the residential extension of building automation.

It is automation of the home, housework or household activity.

Home automation may include centralized control of lighting, HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning), appliances, security locks of gates and doors and other systems, to provide improved convenience, comfort, energy efficiency and security.

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I'm extremely inept with tech. What are the chances of me successfully setting up a doorbell cam that is fully offline (no access to the Internet at all)? Any reasonably easy solutions? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by NewbianPrincess@alien.top to c/homeautomation@selfhosted.forum

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I had a glimmer of hope when I found [this] (https://www.amazon.com/Wireless-Monitoring-Photograph-recording-Apartment/dp/B0BL2MSXM6), but it has pretty bad reviews.

Sorry if it's a dumb question. This is brand new to me, and when I looked at some old threads on the topic I felt over my head.

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[–] dashid@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Just buy a conventional webcam/ipcam and use that in addition to a conventional doorbell. If you're not wanting it to be Internet connected, you aren't going to be using away from your home.

[–] Cyberlytical@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What? That's not how networking works. Your devices can be disconnected from the internet and still be accessed remotely.

[–] dashid@alien.top 2 points 11 months ago

Completely disconnected from the Internet means that packets can't make it from the device to the Internet. You achieve this through physically separate networking, VLANs or simply relevant firewalls. With a stateful firewall you can get picky with restrictions on TCP SYN packets to get fine grained control of who can establish a connection. I felt this level of detail was inappropriate for OP's self proclaimed technical proficiency.

Possibly OP means Internet connected, but not using a third party service to handle the feed. If they do, then they can ignore my comment and select something more appropriate from other helpful contributions.