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Built an LCARS based doorbell! (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/tenforward@lemmy.world
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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

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[–] accideath@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That's great but who is your dad's favorite captain? Everyone wants to know.

[–] accideath@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The first half of my first name is Jean. And if it weren’t for my mum, the second half would be Luc

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Well that's a good choice for fav captain. Hard to argue with JLP.

[–] accideath@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Indeed. Imagine he named me Tiberius and based his UI on TOS…

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

That's amazing!

[–] negativenull@lemmy.world 52 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Next, you'll need to make your doors slide open, with a "shoosh" sound effect as well.

Super cool project!!

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 32 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It gets expensive after a while paying the two dudes to stand there all day and move them.

[–] NeatoBuilds@mander.xyz 7 points 1 week ago

Just do it the Thomas Jefferson way and don't pay them

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

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....

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

With the rule that nobody can speak while the doors are swooshing

[–] exothermic@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Please be sure to ground it, there are too many unnecessary console deaths.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And install fuses! Apparently that technology was lost in the 23rd century.

[–] mercano@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Instructions unclear, installed explosive rocks.

[–] jrs100000@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Maybe fill it with rocks, you know to help weight it down or something?

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's very cool, what have you used for it?

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

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

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

going to expand functionality later to handle authentication

You better give it a good lock code!

[–] klemptor@startrek.website 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ha I totally knew what this would be before I clicked!

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Same. Good!

[–] smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago

I hope after someone hits "ring" it goes into a warp core eject countdown.

[–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You could use the space for your house number, current weather and some other data. Really nice work!

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Telling people the weather when they're standing outside 😅

I get it though

[–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Captain on the bridge-sound

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago

THAT IS SO AMAZING!!!!!!!!!! :-)

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What's the power consumption on that? Does the screen go to sleep?

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

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

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] hark@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

If color e-paper displays come down in price enough, it seems like this would be a good use case.

[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How does it handle weather, temp, etc?

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

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

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

This is awesome!

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Does it make the same sound that cabin doors make in the show when they ring the bell? 😯

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

It will when I wire up the speaker in the old doorbell chime spot lol

[–] casmael@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

Wow this looks pretty sick man I am impressed

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Nice! Is this the Lovelace lcars plugin? I use that myself!

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Lovalace LCARS plugin?

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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.