Hi, i have a g4 doorbell pro installed on my uck and then successfully working on home assistant. I can see both camera feeds.
Now I want to have a chime in the house. I have a h100 to do the chime, but when i try to set up the automation there is no door bell press to select.
what am i doing wrong?
Hello Quinton,
Go to integrations
and find your device. Look at what the entities are available. It may be a button or event, it may be hidden, it may not have one. I don’t know, but this will tell you what is available.
The G4 presents the doorbell as a separate entity …make sure it’s not hidden… (see sirs instructions) It’ll be called binary_sensor.(whatever your camera is) _doorbell
Hi Sir Goodenough, so you are saying i can actually look at a list of entities for a specific device? that would be great. Unfortunately i can only see a list like that under the creating automation sequence, otherwise im having to scroll through hundreds of them for all devices every time.
how do i do this?
Settings. Devices and services > unifi protect > devices.
Should show your camera it will look something like this
ahhh cool yep, been staring at this page most of the evening there is just nothing there actually called entities is what confused me. so what section should the button be under? i assume controls , I only have reboot device and unadopt device under controls.
Show hidden and it’s under sensors. You don’t control you read it.
cool, thanks, here is my sensors for the camera, I clicked the +1 entity not shown, is that what you mean by hidden?
For me, it’s binary_sensor.doorbell_doorbell
Where doorbell is the name of the device.
It would appear you might need to click on the motion one and enable it. Not sure where the button is.
I would suggest restarting home assistant to see if it picks it up on a restart after you enable motion.
dis abling and enbling motion did it, over about 20 minutes more “entities” appeared in the sensors box. i can now see “Doorbell” !!! yay
I in no way can select it in an automation, and I cant select a chime on the h100 either, i can toggle state of the led and adjust the volume, but nothing in the list suggests playing a chime or sound
You use entify state = on as a trigger for automation. Roll your own. Make it play a sound somewhere. TTS speak to the doorbell.
When Doorbell pops it fires. You should also have motion and probably at least one animal or some other sensor.
Same concept entity state of the entity == on pop.
Sorry this is HA there’s no press here for doorbell. - you have to tell it what you want.
Have fun. Don’t annoy your housemates.
ill have a go, thanks for you help, and thanks for everyone who commented here. cheers
I was looking for same thing. Ended up with.
I use action “ when occupied”
Than snapshot and show on media player tv.
So use this action “occupied” to trigger what you want.
yes! thanks i have when occupied, the door bell can now toggle the state of the LED on the H100 as there is no chime entity. well im way closer than i ever thought i would be on this lol. if I go to settings on the chime h100 thing I can set the chime off from controls. but nothing in entities. thanks realm
so ended up copying some yaml from a friend
action: siren.turn_on
metadata: {}
data: {}
target:
device_id: dda64aab530d88a6ab5a69292eb127bc
dont know how it works or why it works. dont know why there is no entity for chime, and therefore what this actually points to. but whatever, it works.