I have searched a lot of the forum and have not been able to find an answer to my specific problem, so I am putting it out there. thanks in advance for any helpful tips. I have an everspring door sensor wired to my doorbell separate and independent to any house wiring. when the doorbell is given a short press the light on the sensor turns on red but won’t trigger in vera. when I give it a slightly longer press it triggers in vera. I don’t really want to put a sign up that says please push and hold doorbell. any thoughts on how to have the short presses trigger in vera?
Got the same issue with a fibaro sensor , used for the same purpose.
My work arround:
create a virtual switch.
create a scene with a trigger from the sensor
the scene toggles the virtual switch on and after for example 5 seconds off again.
notification on the virtual switch.
Here is how I did my door bell and it triggers with even with a very quick push of the button. The existing door bell was broken already so i gutted the insides and mounted the everspring door sensor and a relay like this inside, i took the relay out of the case to make room inside the doorbell so i could put the cover back on and it would look like a normal door bell on the outside. the nice thing about the relay is that it works from 10-30 volts ac and my door bell voltage it 16 volts. I wired the N.C. terminals of the relay right to the external terminals on the everspring door sensor, that way its not always showing as a tripped sensor on the vera UI. then powered the relay from the existing power that powered the door bell when the button is pushed. I did have to remove the light bulb from the door bell button though as it was causing just enough current to pass through it to create issues intermittently.
Can you explain how you wired it and the everspring sensor up? I think I have it worked it out on paper, but I just want to be sure.
Here’s how I think it goes…
10-30VDC/VAC (White/Blue) > Hot on transformer (16/24v)
Common (White/Yellow) > Common on transformer
Normally Closed (Blue) > NC terminal on Everspring
Common (Yellow) > Common on Everspring
Can you explain how you wired it and the everspring sensor up? I think I have it worked it out on paper, but I just want to be sure.
Here’s how I think it goes…
10-30VDC/VAC (White/Blue) > Hot on transformer (16/24v)
Common (White/Yellow) > Common on transformer
Normally Closed (Blue) > NC terminal on Everspring
Common (Yellow) > Common on Everspring[/quote]
Yeah that all looks good, as far as the White/blue coil wire goes have that connected to the wire that comes back from other side of the doorbell button so it only energizes when the button is pressed.
Can you explain how you wired it and the everspring sensor up? I think I have it worked it out on paper, but I just want to be sure.
Here’s how I think it goes…
10-30VDC/VAC (White/Blue) > Hot on transformer (16/24v)
Common (White/Yellow) > Common on transformer
Normally Closed (Blue) > NC terminal on Everspring
Common (Yellow) > Common on Everspring[/quote]
Yeah that all looks good, as far as the White/blue coil wire goes have that connected to the wire that comes back from other side of the doorbell button so it only energizes when the button is pressed.[/quote]
Thanks man. Got it all wired up yesterday and it works perfectly.
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