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  1. H0va4life

    New RCA HSDB2A 3MP Doorbell IP Camera

    If I had to do it again, I'd still use my old mechanical dumb doorbell and just get a camera, especially blink camera (if you don't mind cloud/amazon), and put it at a good angle over my entrance area. You can even grab a sage sensor, I have a few some unopened, and connected inside your...
  2. H0va4life

    New RCA HSDB2A 3MP Doorbell IP Camera

    After all the work I've done its definitely an app/fw issue. BECAUSE I am a good and responsible person and I search for my problem and solutions BEFORE posting about it - I know you seen a lot of this issue there were quite a few posts - I did feel like posting again because I didn't see a...
  3. H0va4life

    New RCA HSDB2A 3MP Doorbell IP Camera

    Thanks! I quickly tried it out unsure which button assignment matches to what. I tried maybe the transformer since that should receive a signal and nothing happened after I made a routine to turn a light red. I will assign each of the three buttons a different color and hopefully the light...
  4. H0va4life

    New RCA HSDB2A 3MP Doorbell IP Camera

    Nice, thanks for sharing! Yeah I am unsure how much I am going to dive into this, so my goal was to keep cost low without bringing a lot more devices in the house. My optiplex is in the MT form so I can store a few drives in there to help with minimizing system footprint. I probably will just...
  5. H0va4life

    New RCA HSDB2A 3MP Doorbell IP Camera

    Nice yeah I got mine for $106 shipped, 7th gen i5 16gb ram and 500gb ssd - I had a 512 m2 drive laying around that I use as the primary drive on it. I also have a few HDDs laying around. I havent determined if I should just get rid of windows and do completely linux based system or not. I am not...
  6. H0va4life

    New RCA HSDB2A 3MP Doorbell IP Camera

    Thank you! I am just getting started with leaning from the cloud - google notification about low storage has been annoying me. I recently purchased a dell optiplex from an office liquidator. I'll probably have home assistant on it in addition to it serving as an archive for photos/emails etc...
  7. H0va4life

    New RCA HSDB2A 3MP Doorbell IP Camera

    Unfortunately the mechanical chime is still not activating. If you don't mind me asking, what firmware and version are you using, is it possible for me to downgrade to that? I've tried the following thus far and no luck: Chime works when I remove the doorbell out of the circuit and touch the...
  8. H0va4life

    New RCA HSDB2A 3MP Doorbell IP Camera

    Probably why EZVIZ is going slow as a snail to support me with my mechanical chime not working - its been about a month since I've opened a case with them. I just got a bunch of sage sensors - anyway I can tell from that if the ezviz is sending any signal at all to the chime?
  9. H0va4life

    open source Blue iris alternative

    can you show a youtube video for reference demonstrating the new integration in BI?
  10. H0va4life

    open source Blue iris alternative

    I didn't reply to the OP, I replied to someone else who is just getting started. Interesting you mention that AI is integrated with BI but I do not see that as a feature on BI's web page, you'd think that'd be all over since its a hot buzz word. I am just getting started and can be totally wrong.
  11. H0va4life

    open source Blue iris alternative

    You can also check out this guys channel if you are more into using blue iris and a windows environment. This solution uses your local hardware for AI processing instead of a coral. Here is one where he does AI locally but on his own hardware, again in a windows environment:
  12. H0va4life

    open source Blue iris alternative

    Yeah I see a few sellers on amazon for just over $100 - I am in the US btw. I just received an "old" dell optiplex off ebay for just over $100. I am unsure if I want to keep it a windows machine and then run home assistant or whatever off a VM since I am a total newb. Or just take my main drive...
  13. H0va4life

    open source Blue iris alternative

    Check out the homelab and home automation groups on reddit - this is a good place but definitely youll find tons of information there.
  14. H0va4life

    open source Blue iris alternative

    Thanks for sharing! I am just getting started in my setup. I am half tempted in grabbing one of those AI google coral usb devices to take off processing load from my system. Are you processing everything locally or are these cloud based AI solutions?
  15. H0va4life

    open source Blue iris alternative

    You should join the homelab reddit group - there's lots more linux users there.
  16. H0va4life

    New RCA HSDB2A 3MP Doorbell IP Camera

    Unfortunately still no luck after setting up in the HK app - I did some digging in the product manual of HK's recent doorbell to get the app for android. The latest firmware must've done something to it.
  17. H0va4life

    New RCA HSDB2A 3MP Doorbell IP Camera

    Thank you for the recommendation. If I use the hik vision do I need to flash my doorbell fw to be hikvision as well? I got an error after I removed the db from my ezviz account, and uploaded the QR code in the HiLook app - I only tried guest mode. I have a bulk order of sage doorbell sensors...
  18. H0va4life

    New RCA HSDB2A 3MP Doorbell IP Camera

    Still no luck, I was able to connect an unused alexa echo dot that I had laying around my house so that got me thru halloween. I've tried a new tri-volt transformer and no luck at any of the voltages. So I am now awaiting on new mechanical chimes to be delivered - one that you had mentioned and...
  19. H0va4life

    New RCA HSDB2A 3MP Doorbell IP Camera

    It has to be a server issue causing the mechanical chime to not work or maybe the new transformer still isn't large enough? I ended up disconnecting the ezviz db1 and shorted its connection with everything else connected and my mechnical doorbell rang each time i touched the prongs that normally...
  20. H0va4life

    New RCA HSDB2A 3MP Doorbell IP Camera

    I am assuming you are replying to me - I don't recall having any issues with the mechanical chime prior to installing the ezviz. The ezviz powers on, I got a reading of 20v across the back of the 16v/30 transformer I recently purchased from HD. If I remove the power kit from the circuit, I got a...
  21. H0va4life

    New RCA HSDB2A 3MP Doorbell IP Camera

    I guess I'll be relying on alexa as my chime - I really hate having another smart device to worry about, but I need a doorbell - I think because ppl weren't hearing the doorbell inside, guests waiting to be let in started smashing the PIR sensor. Anyways previously I tried just removing from the...
  22. H0va4life

    New RCA HSDB2A 3MP Doorbell IP Camera

    I am going to check my connections again. I wonder how much voltage should be going thru the doorbell and transformer line w/o the power kit attached at idle. 4.8v seems low but maybe not since it is at idle.
  23. H0va4life

    New RCA HSDB2A 3MP Doorbell IP Camera

    I have the ezviz db1. The doorbell worked before i installed the ezviz. I am using the latest ezviz app and I readded the doorbell and selected mechanical chime after upgrading the transformer. Before I upgraded the transformer, the mech. chime sporatically worked with the ezviz, but it seemed...
  24. H0va4life

    New RCA HSDB2A 3MP Doorbell IP Camera

    Hi I am having trouble with getting my mechanical chime to work. I checked the first post on this thread and upgraded the transformer to the 16v/30a from home depot. After connecting I read 20v from back of transformer, 0.8v when everything is connected measuring at the chime's front and trans...
  25. H0va4life

    New RCA HSDB2A 3MP Doorbell IP Camera

    I was able to contact support before they closed, thank god for pacific hours, and supposedly they did remove the option to toggle the mechanical chime within the app and it can only be done during initial setup. Anyways i told the CS that they need to add that feat back in. I guess I'll be...
  26. H0va4life

    New RCA HSDB2A 3MP Doorbell IP Camera

    Hi - I am using my EZVIZ DB1 completely stock. What happened to the option to trigger the mechanical chime in the android app? I recall having to look around for it previously but I don't recall it being THIS hard finding it. Did they remove that option due to it not consistently working?
  27. H0va4life

    DB1 not ringing chime

    I used the transformer includedwith my db1 and am having inconsistent chiming as well. Mine is working right now after being silent for a while - temperatures outside are warming up so I believe it has to do with the weather in my case.
  28. H0va4life

    New RCA HSDB2A 3MP Doorbell IP Camera

    Thanks! I think I was still on the older FW although I told the app to look for updates multiple times, so maybe that's why the initial update didn't go thru.
  29. H0va4life

    New RCA HSDB2A 3MP Doorbell IP Camera

    Sorry for sounding like a noob, but how do i install different firmwares? I dl'd the nelly one and went to batch tool upgrade option but i think i am still on my default ezviz fw. If somebody can provide a link to instructions that will suffice as well.
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