Hi Everyone,
Thought I would share this. I have been reading a few threads on converting my doorbell to a smart one and saw video on reed switches on door sensors. Since I had a wyze door sensor (pretty cheap) lying around, I thought I would give it is a try. I have my wyze sensors configured as locals through the wyze sense component through HACS (video here: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19UCwf4uidQ])(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19UCwf4uidQ)
The following is how I installed it.
The doorbell cover:
Wyze Sensor inside the cover:
Where the sensor stays when closing the cover:
Make sure the sensor is active. The following code is optional. I created it to give the sensor a bell icon but you don’t need it if you are for example just using it to send notification.
In configuration.yaml under your binary_sensor: add
wyze_doorbell:
friendly_name: Doorbell
icon_template: >
{% if is_state('binary_sensor.wyze_doorbell_sensor', 'off') %}
mdi:bell
{% else %}
mdi:bell-off
{% endif %}
device_class: sound
value_template: "{{ is_state('binary_sensor.wyze_doorbell_sensor', 'off') }}"
Hope this is hopeful. This is probably too simple for the experts here but it is an easy way for the mere mortals.
My next step is to create the notification and also once I learn node red, to automate the camera screen capture for the notification.