Hey everyone, I made a small docker container to listen to Tuya Doorbell ring and have-it integrated into hass as a webhook call. an example automation is included also with many ideas
I took a different route as my pi is already handling a lot of containers and I donāt want to have yet another one for a small use case. So I took a different route:
I bought myself a doorbell receiver that integrates with the existing doorbell. If activated, I want to capture a photo and push it to the companion app if Iām not at home. And I want our Alexa speakers to make a announcement and my pixel clock to display the sth.
There needs to be some kind of āproxyā, receiving the doorbell event and pushing it to HA. I bought a tuya smart socket, an USB one in my case as I want it as small as possible. Next, I configured an automation (I used Alexa as integration was quite good, but SmartLife/Tuya IoT is also possible). Everytime the doorbell is pressed, the socket is switched on and off after 30 sec. In HA, I subscribed to the activation of the socket as it mimics the doorbell and I was able to create the automation for the use case described above.
So instead if running my own container, I use Tuya / Alexa infrastructure and the small socket, which costs me around ~2ā¬.
for now im just using a virtual button/device in the tuya cloud developer dashboard. and made a automation to flip the switch when the doorbell is pushed. but i feel like it is rather slow. it takes some time before HA is notified. and is then able to notify me.
I recently bought one of these tuya doorbells, and was looking for a way to get the ring event and use it in and automation, so while searching for alternatives, got to this post. I got the docker and set it to run but Iām not getting notifications when I press the button, are there any extra steps required in the tuya cloud to get the notifications?
So this is what I done so far to get this to work:
in the Tuya cloud, you may have to change your project, you need to enable the āMessage Serviceā, else youāre not going to get a connection even if you have the API enabled. Once you do that youāll get a connection and hopefully youāll get the messages, with my version of the doorbell (standard non video) the Tuya Implementation of the events didnāt included the ring event, so I had to do an extra set of steps: go to devices list select the device (doorbell) then press the āDebug Deviceā Operation at the end of the list, that will open a new browser tab, then you select the āDevice Debuggingā section and in there you select a link on the top message that says product details, there youāll find the " Control Instruction Mode", and you need to select the āDP Instructionā, that way youāll get all messages not just the ones Tuya Cloud has mapped for that device. (Remember to save that configuration).
There is also a slight change in the app.js code to get the message you need because @nimda95 code is meant for his specific model, so that payload āevent_notifyā may be different from what you needā¦
this is the doorbell that I got as a reference: Amazon.com
I hope this helps any of you as a complement for the excellent work of @nimda95.
Hi, I need also this solution, so I found a simular solution from 2022 (but found it again). This I had understood, that you see ther virtual device in HA.
I defined the virtual device but I didnāt find in Home Assistant and not in the Smart-Live-App.
So I didnāt know how to define the automation in the Tuya iOT . Please can you explain your steps.
My Tuya-Integration is the ālocal Tuyaā. Also I tried the offical integration.
