The Reolink Video Doorbell PoE is a handy network video doorbell. It is powered over PoE, has a local web interface, supports streaming and can be integrated into a home automation system. In practice, however, the official Reolink mobile app may report a button press with a noticeable delay. In my case it was about 20 seconds, which is far too long for a front door. This guide shows step by step how to make the phone ring within 1–2 seconds – even on a Huawei phone without Google services.
The official Reolink app reports a ring from the Reolink Video Doorbell PoE with a delay of about 20 seconds. This guide shows how to make a Samsung Galaxy S25+ ring within 1–2 seconds using Home Assistant – step by step, with pictures.
A fast, feature-rich MicroPython driver for the Waveshare 2.9inch e-Paper B V3 display (128×296 pixels, black/white/red), 1.54-palcový e-Papaper V2 (200 x 200 pixelov, black/white touch display).
Optimised for ESP32-S3 Zero, but works on any MicroPython board with SPI.
Note: MicroPython firmware v1.19+ required
I got hold of an older Lenovo W541 notebook equipped with an Intel Core i7 processor and an Nvidia Quadro 2100 graphics card, which even today offers above-standard computing performance, and Windows 11 runs fast, as it should. After the necessary hardware repair and diagnostics, it was time for the software, and thus also the BIOS upgrade to the latest available version 2.42, which turned out to be more complicated than it seemed at first glance.
The era of artificial intelligence is definitively here, impacting all spheres of our lives more and more intensely, day by day. The field of amateur radio is no exception. In the following article, I will try to clarify the possibilities and methods of using artificial intelligence (hereinafter referred to as AI) in amateur practice as well.
