It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell
Summary
A personal DIY case study of chaining five cloud services to create a doorbell notification system using a Blink doorbell, Alexa routines, Samsung SmartThings, webhooks, a VPS, and Home Assistant. It highlights a no-subscription, no-exposed-internet approach that has operated for about 18 months, and notes a looming change due to Samsung SmartThings API pricing.