"whisky-dave" wrote in message
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On Wednesday, 13 September 2017 15:08:11 UTC+1, Rod Speed wrote:
"whisky-dave" wrote in message
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On Wednesday, 13 September 2017 11:55:57 UTC+1, Rod Speed wrote:
"whisky-dave" wrote in message
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On Wednesday, 13 September 2017 10:51:45 UTC+1, Rod Speed wrote:
"Graeme" wrote in message
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In message , Bob Eager
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I am
torn between a voice intoning "the bell has been activated,
please
wait"
and the start of 'Time' from Dark Side of the Moon.

Much more fun to have excerpts from random tracks :

Dave Edmonds, I hear you knocking
Anita Ward, Ring my bell
Little Richard, Keep a knocking
A loop of 'Go Away' from Go Away Little Girl

etc. :-)

Dunno, I'd prefer it use facial recognition so I know
who has pressed the button so I can choose to
ignore the worst of the god botherers if I choose to.

And recognise uniforms like the cops and those likely
to be showing up to tell you your place is on fire etc.

You'd need the fire brigade turn up in a uniform to tell yuo that
yuo
have
a fire in your home ?

Nope, but if it happens that an obscure part of the place
is on fire and I havent noticed, that could be handy.

I guess it would but how would the fire brigade know ?

Someone else reported it to them.

So someone else notices a fire in an obsure part of your
house, but doesn't tell you and rings the fire brigade.

Makes sense to get the fire brigade there as soon as possible
and they may not be able to get you to come to the door
because you dont hear them knocking on the front door etc.

The fireys can be a lot more aggressive about getting into
the house if they dont get a response when they knock.

Face recignition would be fun though as you could have
particular greeting or if unrecogniswd just say "**** off".

Or have the system be selective about who it tells me about
like when I am having a snooze and dont want to be told
about the joveys, but do about the cops etc if they show up.

well the iphone X could do that accroding to the tech specs
I glanced over it says it has body & face detection.

IMO it would be better done with the surveillance cameras
and that could go much further and recognise when a courier
van has showed up too, even using the branding on the van etc.

Have yuo seen te4h price of these cams

Yep.

they are about twice that of a iphone X

Plenty have them anyway.

and that excluded the servers.

They dont all need servers. And its a small
part of the total cost of the house anyway.

I do want to be woken by the courier van showing up, but not
when its someone I know. I've got everyone I know well trained
to know that I do have a nap every day. They can usually see me
when they show up at the big patio door that is my front door,
and know not to knock unless they can actually see me. It would
be even better if the surveillance system did all that auto, tell
those who it recognises as regulars that I am having a nap so
that when I'm not visible thru the main patio door it would
know that I'm out the back doing the tomatoes or the beer etc.

And could notify my mobile with the courier or posty so I could
tell them over the phone where to leave the item if I want to do that.

I;d find it more convinet to have a system like a post box outside that
could be locked or unlocked from my smartphone anywhere in the world.

Trouble is some stuff is too big to go in one of those.
The last lot of grog I bought online was much too big
to put in what is sensible to have locked box wise.

The postman can then leave the parcel
their no need for me to come to the door

Doesnt work for stuff you have to sign for.

Once you have the surveillance cameras and alarm
system, easy enough to have it do the other fancy
stuff too and wouldnt cost any more hardware wise.

Leaves stupid dinosaur primitive bells and door knockers for dead.

But it could cost thousands.

Many have that anyway with their surveillance equipment.
Might as well use that to replace dinosaur bells and knockers
and get a vastly better overall result.