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Just rings for now, going to expand functionality later to handle authentication for unlocking the door and maybe other things lol
Next, you'll need to make your doors slide open, with a "shoosh" sound effect as well.
Super cool project!!
It gets expensive after a while paying the two dudes to stand there all day and move them.
Just do it the Thomas Jefferson way and don't pay them
Oh believe me, I've spent a decent chunk of time exploring ways to make it practical, I haven't find any good way to pull it off for most doors in my house unfortunately :(
Maybe if I ever get to the point where I can have a new house built....
With the rule that nobody can speak while the doors are swooshing
Please be sure to ground it, there are too many unnecessary console deaths.
Don't worry, it should be fine as long as the EPS relays don't overload, but what are the chances of that happening lmao
And install fuses! Apparently that technology was lost in the 23rd century.
Instructions unclear, installed explosive rocks.
Maybe fill it with rocks, you know to help weight it down or something?
That's very cool, what have you used for it?
I used a cheap WT32-SC01 Plus which integrates the screen with an esp32 package with breakouts for other useful things, like a speaker header, and flashed with openHASP
going to expand functionality later to handle authentication
You better give it a good lock code!
Ha I totally knew what this would be before I clicked!
Same. Good!
I hope after someone hits "ring" it goes into a warp core eject countdown.
You could use the space for your house number, current weather and some other data. Really nice work!
Telling people the weather when they're standing outside 😅
I get it though
Yeah, I know. That button is just so lonely. Make it a forecast, pressure, humidity, etc. Or something completely different. Stock market or maybe the current price of 17 sticks of butter in Nepal.
Yeah it needs something for sure :) forecast and all that would be useful
I'd be tempted to throw some fun buttons in, too. An "alarm", stuff like that.
Captain on the bridge-sound
At his old company, my dad got a 500€ bonus because he wrote a MS Outlook macro to automate some specific email to excel and/or calendar data transfer (I think, been a while). As my dad is a huge TNG fan (initiating me into the fandom at a young age after literally naming me in part after his fav captain), the UI was obviously also based on LCARS.
That's great but who is your dad's favorite captain? Everyone wants to know.
The first half of my first name is Jean. And if it weren’t for my mum, the second half would be Luc
Well that's a good choice for fav captain. Hard to argue with JLP.
Indeed. Imagine he named me Tiberius and based his UI on TOS…
THAT IS SO AMAZING!!!!!!!!!! :-)
What's the power consumption on that? Does the screen go to sleep?
I never bothered to look I wasn't planning on battery power. I'm powering this off the existing doorbell transformer and wiring with AC to DC buck converter
Though from time to time I had it powered off my laptop USB and that only delivers 500ma so I can't imagine it'd be very much
Screen sleeps, but I wasn't originally going to keep it that way, but people just seem to instinctively tap it to wake and tap the ring button without issue so I've decided to leave it to extend the displays life
Even if it's not battery powered, I personally would be conscious of the energy inefficiency. But I would be fine with it going to sleep. I suppose it should also be possible to automatically wake it up if a person approaches, using a motion sensor.
If color e-paper displays come down in price enough, it seems like this would be a good use case.
This is awesome!
Does it make the same sound that cabin doors make in the show when they ring the bell? 😯
It will when I wire up the speaker in the old doorbell chime spot lol
How does it handle weather, temp, etc?
Entryway is deeply recessed, so my front door is never really all that exposed to rain/snow/wind, but it seems fine with temperature swings between 20-75, but it wasn't online for the summer so I'm unsure how 85+ will be
Nice! Is this the Lovelace lcars plugin? I use that myself!
Lovalace LCARS plugin?
Oh neat, though I do use HA, I don't plan on using it's dashboard very much. My plan is to use it mostly for a central hub for hooking in IoT devices so I'm not reinventing the wheel every time I add something new lol and then I'll build my own LCARS, that'll just use HAs API over top of that
Have you integrated the doorbell with HA yet? Adding mine has been dead useful.
Eventually I plan to add some logic so if the door isn't answered within a certain period, the lights in the house start flashing.
Also, I think you're absolutely smack on with your plans for HA, that's how I use it.
Get everything talking openly to one platform as a central point.
Then link everything together using that platform.
That's amazing!
Wow this looks pretty sick man I am impressed