Good day,
I’m looking for a simple way to build a door chime - the same as the one that alarm keypads have. The bip bip bip that gets triggered when a door get opened to notify people inside the house the door got openned…
Since I had plenty of old android phone, I said I’ll install a dlna server on them and install the dlna plugin in my veraplus.
It worked but it is inconsistent… after a certain time, it stop working and I know the problem is not with the android phones as I can stream to them from other devices…
So I was wondering if you had any suggestions of a simple way to achieve that ?
I saw people going through external services such xendapp but I still dont understand why this is required since it’s all local and should work without internet connection…
All your help would be appreciated
Look at the Aeon Labs ZW056 z-wave doorbell Gen5.
I was reading the comments on Amazon and one person said the chime shows up in the controller as a siren. I also read you can change the volume and ringtones. I guess all that you would need to do is setup a scene for a door contact to set off the door bell chime(siren) when opened.
Jim
[quote=“Tlex, post:1, topic:191217”]Good day,
I’m looking for a simple way to build a door chime - the same as the one that alarm keypads have. The bip bip bip that gets triggered when a door get opened to notify people inside the house the door got openned…
Since I had plenty of old android phone, I said I’ll install a dlna server on them and install the dlna plugin in my veraplus.
It worked but it is inconsistent… after a certain time, it stop working and I know the problem is not with the android phones as I can stream to them from other devices…
So I was wondering if you had any suggestions of a simple way to achieve that ?
I saw people going through external services such xendapp but I still dont understand why this is required since it’s all local and should work without internet connection…
All your help would be appreciated[/quote]
You would think there would be more of these readily available or that the sirens would do double duty, but no. This guy built his own by taking apart a Cree bulb and hooking it to a knock-off arduno and piazo speaker:
Looks pretty cool to me!
Good luck!
Thanks for your replies,
I came up with something functional and pretty easy to setup…
I took old Android phones that I had, installed them with static IPs + the VeraAlert app from the Google Play store.
I then installed the VeraAlert apps from MIOS repository.
Voila !
I just had to create a scene that triggers VeraAlert.
I’ve create one profile per devices (I have 3 old android phones) and I choose Lan-Profile instead of Mobil-Profile as I wanted that setup to work even if internet gets broken somehow.
So far, setup as been working for 3 days without any issue.
If someone needs help making that setup, I cant make a step by step procedure but it’s really straight forward…
now the question is…
That scene also triggers VeraMate plugin as I want to get a notification on my phone when I’m gone… it works, but I would like the message to report witch sensor (the name of it) trigger… here is my luup code, any idea ?
luup.call_action(“urn:veramate-com:serviceId:VeraMatePN”, “SendAlert”, {Msg=“Here I would like the sensor name that tripped”}, 22)
luup.call_action(“urn:richardgreen:serviceId:VeraAlert1”, “SendAlert”, {Message = “Message String {tone:1}”, Recipients = “DOORBELL1;DOORBELL2;DOORBELL3”}, 29)
In the LUA for each TRIGGER
TriggerName = “Trigger XX”
Then in the LUA for the scene
uup.call_action(“urn:veramate-com:serviceId:VeraMatePN”, “SendAlert”, {Msg=TriggerName}, 22)
luup.call_action(“urn:richardgreen:serviceId:VeraAlert1”, “SendAlert”, {Message = TriggerName … “{tone:1}”, Recipients = “DOORBELL1;DOORBELL2;DOORBELL3”}, 29)
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Or a different tone for each alert:
In the LUA for each TRIGGER
TriggerName = “Trigger XX”
AlertTone = “{tone:xx}”
Then in the LUA for the scene
uup.call_action(“urn:veramate-com:serviceId:VeraMatePN”, “SendAlert”, {Msg=TriggerName}, 22)
luup.call_action(“urn:richardgreen:serviceId:VeraAlert1”, “SendAlert”, {Message = TriggerName … AlertTone, Recipients = “DOORBELL1;DOORBELL2;DOORBELL3”}, 29)
Thanks Richard,
I understand that part :
luup.call_action(“urn:veramate-com:serviceId:VeraMatePN”, “SendAlert”, {Msg=TriggerName}, 22)
luup.call_action(“urn:richardgreen:serviceId:VeraAlert1”, “SendAlert”, {Message = TriggerName … “{tone:1}”, Recipients = “DOORBELL1;DOORBELL2;DOORBELL3”}, 29)
but I dont understand that one :
In the LUA for each TRIGGER
TriggerName = “Trigger XX”
AlertTone = “{tone:xx}”
TriggerName is the variable that you create and “Trigger XX” you want it to show up ?
and when you say “In the LUA for each TRIGGER”, where is that ? under the device setting ? under apps/develop apps/edit startup lua ?
Sorry for these questions… beginner here !
Got it working !!! Thanks Richard.
FYI Beginners like me 
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