Kinda like Batman but with a wife and 3 kids.
By day I write software at Apple. The rest of the time, life happens — my darling bride, three kids, faith, movies, video games, code, fountain pens and Japanese paper, the occasional adventurous home improvement project. This site is the running record of all of it, going back to 2000 — when I have something to say (and sometimes when I don’t).
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One Chime, Two Doorbells: UniFi Protect and My Old Wired Doorbell
I spent a few evenings recently trying to add a Shelly 1 Gen 4 to my existing wired doorbell so I could integrate the old-school indoor chime into my modern home automation setup, without losing the way the physical doorbell already worked. This post is the writeup of what I got wrong the first time, what actually works, and the final wiring I ended up with — hopefully it saves the next person some time.