I’m not sure if they actually do benefit students.

When I was at uni, I was just on a (iirc) 14 hour contract that covered my weekend shifts, then anything on top of that was pick-up.

Zero hour means bosses can just piss people around “lol, no work for you this week”.

I’m currently using the PoE doorbell from Reolink, and regularly use it for intercom, because I don’t like wasting delivery drivers time while I run to the door. I can definitely recommend it. It’s worth the effort running the cable to have something that just works.

The default Reolink integration can raise events on:

• Button press
• Person detection (adjustable sensitivity)
• Motion detection (same)

Recording can be on-device with a micro SD, on network (recording the incoming stream), or by FTP.
Recording can be set like a dashcam too (only save when needed, and overwrite after a certain time)

By default it lights up around the button when it detects movement, I do not like this, so I turned it off.

If the area outside your house isn’t busy, you can do cool things like getting the person detection to alert you as someone approaches, rather than waiting for them to press the bell. Can make the postman jump the first few times.

There are also some features like doing TTS replies if you don’t acknowledge the doorbell inside a certain time.
I haven’t gone through the effort of setting up return audio from Homeassistant, and just use the RL app.

One of my key buying points for hardware is “will this run without any internet, and could I set it all up again without internet?”.

This is why I’m so happy to finally have Hue on my zigbee controller. And it’s why I’m always on the lookout for a second hand Valetudo compatible robovac.

You could also set up a local NTP server, and block them entirely.
Currently, I have mine set with an invalid gateway, and blocked from the internet to be sure.

“Noise floor? Don’t be silly, it’s analogue, there is no noise floor!”

This is a great comment, thanks for taking the time to go through things :)

Being aligned with someone opposite our time zone can only be good.

Maybe you need to slide it a little?

It is, I can understand why they’ve done it though.
Funnily enough, canvas has glitched out for me, and it’s only showing new pixels placed.

All pale to the satisfaction of inserting a digibeta tape.