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DIY Wi-Fi Camera Doorbell

Doorbells · Security

WorksVerified plugin

1 report: 1 says it works.

Reported with 1 Homebridge plugin: Camera FFmpeg.

What people report

PluginStatusWhat they saidConnectsSource
Camera FFmpeg Verified
homebridge-camera-ffmpeg
WorksFFmpeg plugin doorbell feature with trigger button wired to existing doorbell
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I used the FFMPEG plugin and a regular wifi camera (not doorbell) on the front porch. The FFMPEG plugin has a doorbell feature you can enable where you pair some kind of triggering device (button) to it to make that camera like a doorbell camera. Then wired my existing basic dumb doorbell button to the gpio on my raspberry pi and used the homebridge-rpi plugin to make it a smart button (which is automated as the FFMPEG camera doorbell trigger). For the existing chimes, using the homebridge-rpi plugin again, I wired out from the gpio to a simple relay which is automated to chime with the …

Excerpt saved from Arctic Shift Reddit archive on 2026-10-22.

LocalReddit comment · 2021-11

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Identifiers

BrandGeneric
CategoryDoorbells

Also reported as

  • Generic wifi camera as doorbell