Box of Secrets: Discreetly modding an apartment intercom to work with Apple Home

greggsy

I’m actually pretty surprised how bad the intercom ecosystem is these days. Why aren’t there more ‘semi dumb’ Ethernet or wifi products that just let you announce that dinner is ready? It doesn’t need to be a fully ruggedised commercial system like this one or a fully integrated cloud managed solution like ring. The cheap no name wireless ones can’t handle comms between rooms, let alone across a house. The security implications aren’t insurmountable - you could use pairing codes if there are multiple on the network. I’ve accepted that it’s a niche market, and that the only solution is to use Asterix with a some cheapo voip phones.