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Box of Secrets

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.

fragmede: There's Butterfly and another company I can't remember and undoubtedly more, that have expensive systems for large complexes, so the niche is the small buildings that don't have a ton of money. Maybe the softwarepocalypse can help with that.

gnabgib: By op (hope you upvoted): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47488686

tomhow: Comments moved thither. Thanks!