@Wayne-TP 

Let's say that we accept the risks, as end users and owners of the hardware and data. Is there really no opening tot reach out to a community?

If it is a matter of liability i'm sure your lawyers will be Able to concoct a twelve page waiver to agree to. I think most of the community would gladly accept it to increase the use and hence value of the device and it's features.

  @Kyomity Agree, I need button press to be exposed so I can do stuff with it in home assistant. Huge limitation to one of the most important features of the device.

  @John21 The only -insane- solution right now is to train AI to detect visually when someone rings the bell. Absolute craziness.

I can get behind a lot of BS. But hiding behind the guise of privacy is laughable, as I've already said; the moving images and motion alerts are freely accessible by anyone with the password. But WHOA if you're asking for a shared button press event...

The only way I can see is that there is some kind of patent, or some kind of corporate bull-excrement holding this back? Maybe they want to force us in to working with their app? And the only way I can see some incentive for them to do that is, ironically, to breach our privacy and collect more data about us?
Money from hardware sales is good, at most. Revenue from collecting data to train AI, predict human behavior and future sales, is priceless...

I might have my conspiracy glasses on right now, and I'd love to know if I'm wrong. But I'm guessing there will be no response from any official here because I might just, maybe, be a little bit right?