I want a doorbell that I can turn off at night via Home Assistant.
It can either be an actual smart doorbell (preferred) or just an adapter for my already installed one, but I’d prefer if it worked with the 2 wires sticking out the wall that my current doorbell works with, rather than a ringer that needs to be plugged into an a/c socket, because I have none of those in my hallway (which is the center of my apartment). I’d have to install it in the kitchen then, which is a bit impractical, because it would be harder to hear it when when closing the kitchen door.
Also, I’d prefer if it didn’t require an additional gateway and that I could just connect it to my HA via my Home Assistant Yellow’s zigbee radio and z2m or Thread or something.
I don’t need it to have a video or call functionality. I’d rather have it be cheap.
So far, I haven’t found anything that meets my requirements.
The button is not paired directly to the chime. Instead, both are in HA and an automation controls whether a button press triggers the chime or just sends a notification (or turns on a light etc).
Oh, okay. That’s not bad, but if I understand you correctly, I’d need to somehow get rid of the button I already have and then put this new one in its place, which I’d rather avoid, because then it wouldn’t match with the doorbell buttons of the other apartments next to it.
I’d rather have a doorbell or doorbell adapter that connects to my preexisting doorbell wire.
The other option is to use a reed based sensor like shown in this thread:
You can try use say an aqara leak sensor that has the contact points on the bottom via the screws to connect the reed switch wires to if you don’t want to solder but still want easy access should you need to replace it later. I use one connected to a pressure mat as my bed occupancy sensor with a few spare should I need them.
I don’t know where that is and what wires to put where and how to do this safely. I’d need a tutorial that guides me along EVERY step.
I found a solution that seems simple: The prebuilt one by Marcel Zuidwijk that I can just plug into my doorbell. But that one confuses me too and it seems like its creator is rather unresponsive, so I’d like to ask about it here:
I have two wires coming out of my wall connected to my doorbell.
If I understand correctly, I’d have to remove the chime in that case and use a wall-mountable battery-powered speaker or something like that as a replacement. This leads me to the following questions:
Which battery-powered speaker is cheap and suited for this?
Can I remove the chime without breaking anything? The only part that looks potentially removable is this pin but I don’t wanna risk pulling it out and breaking the thing.
I use the doorbell module from Marcel Zuidwijk and it works fine.
I have a classic doorbell setup like yours with a transformer, a pushbutton and a doorbell.
the wires going to the doorbell and from the button, should arrive where the transformer is and this is the place where you have to install the Zuidwijk module.
this way you don’t have to rewire anything.
you only have to connect the existing wires to the correct connectors of the doorbell module.
2 wires from the transformer (low voltage side) to the power input
2 wires from the button to the switch connector
2 wires from the doorbell to the bell connector
The wires in your photo are the wires of the bell, these are not the ones you need.
There should be a transformer somewhere, usually situated in the main fuse box.
You won’t have to remove anything other than having the aqara sensor in between the chime and the button via the wire that is connecting the two. all you are are adding is a digital closing circuit when it detects the button being pressed that will still be passed through to the current doobell chime you have.
What you do then is setup the notification on you phone to activate when that sensor detects that the button has been pressed for the doorbell.
You phone notification can also include a doorbell chime sound effect saved to it and pulled into the notification when it goes off.
I use tasker to automate setting my phone vol up to take it off from mute/silent, play the doorbell audio then mute/silent again when it detects the trigger word doorbell is sent via home assistant notification title.
Just to keep your mind open to alternatives, a ~4 EUR zigbee door sensor glued to (above or below) the coil can be a decent option as well (depending on the exact door sensor the sensitivity might not be great for very short rings).
