Make Your Home Doorbell Smarter with Google Gemini

In this tutorial, I would like to share a simple hack to make your home video doorbell smarter with Google Gemini. Basically I want to get notified from my doorbell with a voice which describes the person coming to my home. I have been looking forward to this for a while and now this is possible, thanks to Google Gemini as it has a free vision API key at the moment.

Components

For this setup, you need the following components:

• Home Assistant. I have this running on my Raspberry Pi 4.

• A video doorbell. I am using Eufy in this case.

• A Google Home.
• Gemini Pro Vision free API key.
• Another Raspberry Pi 4 to feed the image to Google Gemini and cast it to Google Home.

Setup

Gemini API Key

Get the Gemini Pro Vision free API key from https://makersuite.google.com/app/apikey