Doorbell chime?

Yeah, once I had the proof of concept working, I went back and picked up two more. I now have 2 on the main floor, one in my office (basement), and I’m going to get another one for the master suite upstairs - but I need a black one for that, and they were all sold out of black, so… I’ll just get one online. Not a big deal.

Thanks again man!

How do you set it up?

I’ll be making a video of it and getting it up on YouTube coming up in the near future. It’ll actually be a couple videos - one for unboxing the nest mini and adding to HA and configuring tts, and then one for doing the doorbell notifications. Those two videos are already on my list to make, but I’ve got a few other things I need to get done first based on some priority stuff for my setup… We’ll see what happens, but I will get them up soon.

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Man, I’m sorry, I forgot to come back and post the video. Hopefully someone finds this helpful.

What I did is provide an automation, which sends a message to the HA app at on my Android phone. With the app Speaky, one can convert text to speech for any app on the android device.

My automation is as follows (I’m using a Ubiquiti devices for my network, doorbell included) in addition I play a sound on the speakers of several of my Ubiquiti cameras:

alias: Doorbell
description: ""
triggers:
  - trigger: state
    entity_id:
      - binary_sensor.doorbell_doorbell
actions:
  - action: notify.mobile_app_smartphone
    data:
      message: Someone rings the doorbell
  - target:
      entity_id: media_player.pondcamera_speaker
    data:
      media_content_id: media-source://media_source/local/doorbell2-6450.mp3
      media_content_type: audio/mpeg
    metadata:
      title: doorbell2-6450.mp3
      thumbnail: null
      media_class: music
      children_media_class: null
      navigateIds:
        - {}
        - media_content_type: app
          media_content_id: media-source://media_source
    action: media_player.play_media
  - target:
      entity_id: media_player.terrascamera
    data:
      media_content_id: media-source://media_source/local/doorbell-82187.mp3
      media_content_type: audio/mpeg
    metadata:
      title: doorbell-82187.mp3
      thumbnail: null
      media_class: music
      children_media_class: null
      navigateIds:
        - {}
        - media_content_type: app
          media_content_id: media-source://media_source
    action: media_player.play_media
  - target:
      entity_id: media_player.garagecamera_speaker
    data:
      media_content_id: media-source://media_source/local/doorbell2-6450.mp3
      media_content_type: audio/mpeg
    metadata:
      title: doorbell2-6450.mp3
      thumbnail: null
      media_class: music
      children_media_class: null
      navigateIds:
        - {}
        - media_content_type: app
          media_content_id: media-source://media_source
    action: media_player.play_media

That is far more complicated than it needs to be. You can just send TTS announcements to the phone via the companion app. I made a video about that as well.