Dayve67
(Dave)
April 23, 2017, 11:29am
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I’m looking to get notifications when someone rings my door bell. Thinking on putting a Z-Wave vibration sensor inside the door bell to pickup the vibration when the solenoid moves.
Does anyone know of a cheap sensor that would do this or some other way that is best?
cgtobi
(Tobi)
April 23, 2017, 12:23pm
2
There are several threads about doorbells on the forum which might have one or to suggestions that might fit.
For example:
I’m trying to figure out how to get home assistant to alert me once my dumb (non-smart/wifi-enabled) doorbell rings. I have a d-link ip camera (with built-in mic) facing the doorbell, and I can access the audio stream via url. What should I do next, and any existing python code I can use out there? Thanks!
Hi there,
My first ESP8266 project became an MQTT doorbell.
When the doorbell is pressed my Wemos D1 Mini Pro send a MQTT message to my MQTT broker which Home Assistant is subscribing to.
In my Home Assistant automation I play a doorbell sound in my Sonos Play: 1 speaker then send a push notice using Pushbullet with an attached snapshot from my Ubiquiti G3 Camera mounted close to the door.
A bonus with this project is that after the kids are asleep at 7pm the volume on the doorbell sound is …
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