Welcome to Front door intercom automation’s documentation!

Contents:

• Project Documentation
  • Short description
  • Demo
  • Long description
  • Features advantage comparision FDIA, Blink, Ring and PiCamAPI
  • Outlook/Ideas - Improvements plan
  • Get started
  • Cameras
  • Telegram
  • Mobile Setup
  • Web UI & REST-API usage
  • Hardware Circuits
  • Help
  • ChangeLog
  • Author info
  • License
  • Security
  • Contribution
• Telegram bot setup
  • 1. Open bothfather channel
  • 2. Create new bot
  • 3. Create a privat telegram chat group
  • 4. Change bot setting in the BotFather Chat
  • 5. Change bot permissions to get group messages in the BotFather Chat
  • 6. Run python bot command to get chat group details for configuration config.yaml
• Blink camera setup
  • First time setup (no blink_config.json) available
  • Setup / configure again blink after first time setup was made
  • Troubleshooting
• GDPDR EU and Germany hint - DSGVO Hinweis zur Kameraüberwachung in Deutschland - Vorlage
• Timebased One Time Password setup
  • Script command options
• TOTP helper cli - get and verify a TOTP code
  • Get a TOTP code
  • Verify a TOTP code
• How to install on a fresh RPi with code
  • Prepare SD Card
  • Hint for direnv error
• How to setup OTP App on mobile phone
• How to setup Apple IOS Shortcuts App to open door
• ChangeLog
• 1.11.7 - Release 1.11.7 (2025-12-09)
  • Changes
• 1.11.6 - Release 1.11.6 (2025-12-08)
  • Changes
• 1.11.5 - Release 1.11.5 (2025-12-06)
  • Changes
• 1.11.4 - Release 1.11.4 (2025-12-01)
  • Changes
• 1.11.3 - Release 1.11.3 (2025-11-25)
  • Changes
• 1.11.2 - Release 1.11.2 (2025-11-25)
  • Changes
• 1.11.1 - Release 1.11.1 (2025-11-25)
  • Changes
• 1.11 - 1.11 (2025-06-10)
  • What’s Changed
• 1.10 - 1.10 (2025-05-11)
  • What’s Changed
• 1.0.9 - 1.0.9 (2025-02-14)
  • What’s Changed
• 1.0.8 - 1.0.8 (2025-02-10)
  • What’s Changed
• 1.0.7 - Release 1.0.7 (2025-02-09)
  • What’s Changed
• 1.0.6 - Release 1.0.6 (2025-02-02)
  • What’s Changed
• 1.0.5 - Release 1.0.5 (2024-11-25)
  • What’s Changed
• 1.0.4 - Release 1.0.4 (2024-08-22)
  • Changes
• 1.0.3 - Release 1.0.3 (2024-08-06)
  • Changes
• 1.0.2 - Release 1.0.2 (2024-08-05)
  • Changes
• 1.0.1 - Release 1.0.1 (2024-07-31)
  • Changes
• 1.0.0 - Release 1.0.0 - CODE REFACTORED - DOCU UPDATED (2024-07-18)
  • Changes
• v0.0.5 - Release 0.0.5 - and below uses and supports (2022-04-18)
  • Changes
  • Previous Python Version releases
• Advanced API documentation
  • bot package
  • camera package
  • door package
  • web package
  • fdia module
• Security issue guide
  • Supported Versions
  • Reporting a Vulnerability
• Contributing
• Types of Contributions
  • Report Bugs
  • Fix Bugs
  • Implement Features
  • Write Documentation
  • Submit code
  • Submit Feedback
• View Code on GitHub
• Imprint / Impressum on GitHub
• GDPDR / DSGVO in GitHub

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page