Ring Doorbell Notifier

Simple, LLM/AI powered (ollama, together-ai or Gemini) nodejs app that will let you skip the expensive subscription and

• Record your motion videos/snapshots directly on your Mega drive. Mega because it is the easiest and offers the best amount of free storage
• Send notification to slack with link to these videos when a motion is detected.
• Use AI to describe what your camera is seeing
• With this you can enjoy pretty much the same premium features of ring doorbells for totally FREE.

How to run this locally

• The hardest part is to fill in the variables in .env.sample then rename it to .env.
• Run npm install then npm start

How to run as a service using forever

• Install forever: npm install forever -g
• Run npm run start-service
• To stop the process: npm run stop-service
• To view running services: npm run list-services By running as a service, the app would auto-restart in case of crash.

How to run in docker (need docker desktop installed)

• Like the above, fill in the variables in .env.sample then rename it to .env.
• Run the following

docker build -t ring-doorbell-notifier .
docker run -d --restart always ring-doorbell-notifier 

• To create a linux build and push to dockerhub. You then can deploy it in a free host like railway or render. Replace your username and the tag (e.g. v1.2.0)

docker buildx build --platform linux/amd64 -t username/ring-doorbell-notifier:tag .
docker push username/ring-doorbell-notifier:tag

How to get together-ai apikey

• Create an account with together-ai

How to install ollama vision models

• Install ollama: Here
• Install the vision model of your choice

# Choose one of these
ollama pull llava:7b # fastest response but not always the best
ollama pull llama3.2-vision # best response but slowest

• Make sure you enable AI and set the model name in .env file