Скачать или смотреть Open Source, Self Hosted Mailbox notification system. Know when your posts arrive w/o the walk.

Last year I started thinking about making this little gadget to let me know when the postal worker drops my mail in the box. My mailbox is about 40 ft (~13 m) from my front door, and down a hill, so my Ring doorbell doesn't always catch it when it's dropped - though it does seem to catch every other car on earth going by...


Anyway, rather than walk down to the mailbox multiple times a day looking for mail I though it would be easier if the mailbox notified me when someone opened, then closed it.



That's where my gadget comes in.



=== Links ===

Shownotes
https://shownotes.opensourceisawesome...


Github Repo
https://github.com/bmcgonag/mailbox_n...


Ntfy - a cli tool for sending notifications to various services.
https://ntfy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/



Raspberry PI OS Lite (no UI, just cli)
https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/ras...



Optionally (Angry IP Scanner)
https://angryip.org/download/#linux


=== Timestamps ===

00:00 Beginning
00:09 Intro to the Mailbox Notification Project
01:41 Thank you to my Patrons and Subscribers
02:20 Info about https://discuss.opensourceisawesome.com

02:50 The physical setup (hardware)
05:30 See the Switch in Action
06:16 Receive our Notification
11:00 The Code I use to Run this

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