[ExI] ai doorbell

[Henry Rivera]

I have one of these:
https://energizerconnect.com/product/smart-1080p-video-doorbell/
It is powered by the hardwire to the door bell. I can see, hear, record,
and talk to [or avoid] the person at the door from my phone or tablet in
1080p video resolution. Someone with access to that api could make what you
describe I imagine. We just need some open source projects that access this
type of hardware, which is becoming more available, to get the ball
rolling. -Henry

On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 1:44 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> Hey cool, I had an idea today so cool, some yahoo probably already stole
> it before I thought of it, a reprehensible kidnapper of notions before the
> ideas are even born is she or he, deplorable, without conscience!
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> OK the idea: most of us have seen those doorbells which take a digital
> image and text it to the homeowner.  We could go beyond that.  There is a
> hard wire between the traditional old doorbell and the ringer unit inside,
> so the old time doorbells are just a switch.  But we don’t need that hard
> wire now, because we have Bluetooth, and we can power an inside ringer unit
> by other means if we wish.
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> OK so now… the outside doorbell already has a niche cut out for it and a
> power source already in place, so this wouldn’t even be difficult.  We
> create a doorbell switch with one of those cell phone cameras.  Some prole
> pushes the button, the camera takes a photo, sends it to your phone the way
> the current bell-cams do, but this one is better: it would have an AI of
> some sort which does image recognition.  It would recognize the Jehovah’s
> Witnesses for instance and not ring the indoor bell unit, but would have a
> soft ding dong that plays outside in such a way that makes them think your
> inside bell did ring.  This way it doesn’t break your concentration as you
> view your… well, whatever it is you were viewing, none of my business.
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> We could have it warn the neighbors via text message that the Witnesses
> are coming, don’t answer the door, that sorta thing.  We could train it to
> work on sales people (fortunately those seem to have gone away with the
> shutdown.)  Perhaps a good AI person could train it to make exceptions if
> the sales person is three-alarm schmoking hot, override the filter.
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> If we were to get hot with the image recognition, we could have it figure
> out if the person at the door is a neighbor, and if so, have it send a
> talking text to your phone reminding you of the neighbor’s name.  This
> would allow a prole to appear more friendly and personable than I actually
> am, so I need to ponder if that is a desirable outcome, but I suppose it is
> to some extent.
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