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[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 46 points 4 months ago (2 children)

smart doorbell that takes 25+ seconds to fire up a video feed, and errors out most of the time. (Original Ring doorbell, received when they bought out my kickstarter Doorbot and bricked it)

or the Lockitron smart door lock from Kickstarter which took like 6 AA batteries and couldn't muster the strength to unlock the door more than like 3 times.

but least they worked together in failure.

[–] MagicShel@programming.dev 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

My ring used to do that shit. I stopped using it for like a year. Then I was bitching about it and someone said they just got one and it worked great. So I tried it again out of spite to show what a piece of shit it was and now it works within a couple of seconds. shrug

[–] AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

I can't speak for ring but I know as long as my Google nest is connected to WiFi it will update software automatically.

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

At first I thought your doorbell was a eufy. The failure sounds similar.

[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

i tried the eufy afterwards and it wasn't better. when the eufy crashed daily, it doesn't restart itself. but when it worked it was super fast.