I’m still doing it on the side, but I did get some help from others over the years. Mainly some friends put some $ and got 2 other great partners helping me also on the side. One is in the property management business which is very helpful. He came first as a customer.
Can you elaborate how there is no need for hardware changes?
Are you connecting through the earpiece somehow?
Some time ago I hacked our flat intercom. I needed to have a text message delivered when the intercom rang (we use it to open door to the building), I had to tap to it with an arduino.
Cool. Always great to hear what people tried to do with these intercoms. I played with Arduino myself a lot for similar reasons. Thanks for sharing.
It’s simple actually. We program all the units to call our cloud phone numbers. These numbers are shared among all US customers, so service is cheap to run. Also we got a patent in how we process these calls.
We then process, record, forward, these calls to their destinations. And also we send text message updates for certain events.
How does it work without internet? "zero hardware upgrades, or internet required."
And for the tip, please make a better presentation video what the product and benefits are, with a voice over. You can get one from freelancer sites as low as 20$
I described it above for previous comment but basically we program all the units to call our phone numbers. And then we process these calls in the cloud, record, forward, log, etc.. interface between intercom and us is phone line.
We got some property managers in San Francisco and one locksmith reseller as customers.
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