Ben Kristinsson benediktkr

How I made my doorbell smart

The Problem

I have a simple door entry phone that buzzes when someone rings the bell and lets me 'buzz' them in. I would like some smarts. Firstly I want to be able to notify and automate when someone rings and secondly I would like to be able to buzz people in.

Entry phone systems vary throught the world and so it is unlikely this write-up will work for you, so I have spelt out the general principles I used and the steps I took.

The ingredients:

Raspberry Pico W
ESP home installed on the above

Hacking North Korea’s Grand People’s Study House

Prologue

I've decided to post this article anonymously. As much as I would have loved to get credit for it, it is not worth putting the safety of my Korean guides at risk. They are great people, and having any connection to this (even though everything done was legal), could cause them to suffer consequences under the regime.

In the Spring of 2016 I had the chance to travel to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, known in the West as North Korea. The trip was very enlightening, and I’ve come away with a lot of new personal thoughts about the country. This post is not about my personal thoughts though, this post is about my love of cybersecurity and my constant want to be put on new national security lists.

	{
	"title": "Siri System Settings (com.apple.systempreferences)",
	"description": "Use this section to disable the Siri & Apple Intelligence panel in System Settings.",
	"links": [
	{
	"rel": "Siri-Specific Source",
	"href": "https://gist.github.com/jonesiscoding/270dffd9676b212ae741b9571afc9751"
	},
	{
	"rel": "Original Source",

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	## A standard "break beam sensor" uses a laser or LED with a device on both
	## sides of an opening and is triggered when something breaks the beam
	## (such as a customer walking through the beam). Some garage doors use them.
	## Stores often use them at the entrace to ring a chime when a customer enters
	## or leaves.
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	## This is my attempt at using a VL53L0X i2c Time of Flight sensor
	## as a break beam sensor in Home Assistant using ESPHome.
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