You are super-sensitive to over-engineering, so you over-engineered your requirements and ultimately your end product, just in a different methodology and framework.
You are super-sensitive to over-engineering, so you over-engineered your requirements and ultimately your end product, just in a different methodology and framework.
The requirements are not over engineered. They are what they are. Wireless and configurable chime. They are fixed parameters.
But my implementation of these requirements is absolutely not over engineered. I argue it is the simplest and most reliable it could be done.
“I was only following the requirements” at this point must be the Nurnberg defence of over engineering.
If it quacks like a duck, doesn’t matter what you call it: it was over engineering.
It would be over engineered if one could design a system providing similar functionality using less hardware and less software.
I challenge you to design a wireless doorbell that has a user-configurable chime, in a way that uses less software or less hardware than mine. You couldn't.
In fact, if you did market research like me you would find that 99% of similar products have vastly more complex hardware or software or services being them. They break when there is no Internet. Some work without Internet but don't work when the local Wi-Fi is non functional. They don't immediately get back online after a power outage. They need regular software updates during which the chime can't play. These are over engineered things. Not my product, because mine has none of this complexity or faults.
Challenge accepted: "Similar functionality" here is the same doorbells that have existed for over a century. Done. :)
If the requirements and constraints come from you, then saying "those are the requirements" doesn't settle anything. And is the same excuse people use for the over-engineered solutions you don't seem to like.
It is over-engineering compared to a regular doorbell, period.
OP stated it requires a user configurable chime. This is not a regular doorbell.
Godwin's law was invoked quickly. It's not very hacker spirit to hear a story of somebody putting together a cool hardware solution to do something they wanted, and then complain that they wanted the wrong thing.
> check out my hand-embroidered curtains, it's got exactly the flower pattern I wanted
> yeah well you shouldn't want flowers on your curtains, just buy plain white ones from the store