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You're not wrong regarding SIP, however, having spent time wrapping my head around it; a SIP video door bell, on a typical /24 residential home network, could s
by jasonjayr 5y ago
You're not wrong regarding SIP, however, having spent time wrapping my head around it; a SIP video door bell, on a typical /24 residential home network, could simply direct-dial a single computer w/o a SIP server, running MicroSIP (on windows) or Linphone (On Linux). You'd probably have to disable DHCP. If you wanted to connect from multiple devices/computers, then the asterisk setup for that is not TOO bad, it would be a few entries to define the endpoints + passwords, and another few lines to make a call from one ring all the others.
- Nextgrid 5y agoI was thinking more along the lines of replicating the Ring (or other proprietary cloud-based doorbell), which means even if you go through all the effort of configuring Asterisk and have a static IP you'll be exposing Asterisk to the internet which I don't feel too comfortable considering it's a huge pile of legacy C code, or otherwise you'll need to put a VPN gateway in front (and have the mobile client VPN into it) which is even more work.