HarvsG
January 6, 2023, 6:07pm
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I turned a 5 wire entry-phone for a shared front door into a smart door entry system. Through home assistant I can open the door with my phone and get notified with the doorbell rings.
a-smart-entryphone.md
# How I made my doorbell smart
### The Problem
I have a simple door entry phone that buzzes when someone rings the bell and lets me 'buzz' them in. I would like some smarts. Firstly I want to be able to notify and automate when someone rings and secondly I would like to be able to buzz people in.
Entry phone systems vary throught the world and so it is unlikely this write-up will work for you, so I have spelt out the general principles I used and the steps I took.
### The ingredients:
- Raspberry Pico W
- ESP home installed on the above
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front-door.yaml
esphome:
name: front-door
rp2040:
board: rpipicow
framework:
# Required until https://github.com/platformio/platform-raspberrypi/pull/36 is merged
platform_version: https://github.com/maxgerhardt/platform-raspberrypi.git
# Enable logging
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