Collaborate Disseminate
There’s certainly no shortage of “smart” gadgets out there that will provide you with a notification, or even a live audiovisual stream, whenever somebody is at your door. But as we’ve seen countless times before, not everyone is thrilled with the terms that most of these products operate under. Getting …read more
Continue reading Sniffed Transformer Puts Wired Doorbell Online
One of the most popular futurist tropes of the 20th century was the video intercom. Once this technology was ready, it would clearly become a mainstay of modern living overnight. Our lived reality is however somewhat different. For [MisterM], that simply wouldn’t do, so he set about producing a retro-themed …read more
Continue reading Video Doorbell Focuses On Quality, Aesthetic
This IoT software flaw could render millions of consumer devices, including baby monitors and webcams, open to remote discovery and hijack. Continue reading Millions of consumer smart devices exposed by serious security flaw
It certainly seems as though it should be an easy enough project; all [Miguel De Andrade] wanted was to receive a notification when somebody was pressing his doorbell, and thought it would be a good project to get his feet wet in the wonderful world of ESP8266 hacking. But as fate would have it, not everything went according to plan. In the end he got it sorted out, but it’s an interesting look at how even the “easy” projects can call the gremlins out of hiding.
Arguably, the problems started when [Miguel] picked up an ESP-01 module from a local …read more
It certainly seems as though it should be an easy enough project; all [Miguel De Andrade] wanted was to receive a notification when somebody was pressing his doorbell, and thought it would be a good project to get his feet wet in the wonderful world of ESP8266 hacking. But as fate would have it, not everything went according to plan. In the end he got it sorted out, but it’s an interesting look at how even the “easy” projects can call the gremlins out of hiding.
Arguably, the problems started when [Miguel] picked up an ESP-01 module from a local …read more
The project itself is very simple: getting push notifications via MQTT when a wireless doorbell sounds. But as [Robin Reiter] points out, as the “Hello, world!” program is a time-honored tradition for coders new to a language, so too is his project very much the hardware embodiment of the same tradition. And the accompanying video build log below is a whirlwind tour that will get the first-timer off the ground and on the way to MQTT glory.
The hardware [Robin] chose for this primer is pretty basic – a wireless doorbell consisting of a battery-powered button and a plug-in receiver …read more
Continue reading Wireless Doorbell Hacked Into Hands-on MQTT Tutorial
A mix-up involving two databases allowed some users of a popular smart doorbell to view live footage from complete strangers’ front porches.
David Bisson reports.
Continue reading Database mix-up let some smart doorbell users see video from others’ homes