Extra (remote) doorbell sound

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Hello,

At my gate (100 meters away from my house) I have a vera lite (slaved), fibaro relais (2x1,5kw) to operate the gate and a fibaro 3in1 sensor with a push button attached.

The fibaro 3in1 sensor triggers a scene when the push button is touched, this scene activates my sonos in my house to play a mp3 sound … works perfect.

But since the gate is far away from my house , a visitor doesn’t hear anything when he/she pushes the doorbell. Which is annoying offcourse … how many times have you been in front of a door when you push the doorbell and it seems nothing happends :slight_smile:

What I want is a sound near the gate , just to let the people now … something is working.
it is quite easy , get a sonos play 3 near the gate and voila … just a bit expense :slight_smile:

Other option is an android thingy with vera alerts (no wifi near my gate just a router with cables), so no clue how I can hook up the android device to the internet (cheap) :-s

Than I was thinking to use the fibaro relais (2x 1,5kw) which operates my gate. I only use the parent to controll the gate , and the parent is configured that it is only activates for 1 second, than it goes off again (simulates a push button). I still have the other (child) of this relais unused. I am not sure how many volts run throught the electronics of the gate (to simulate the push button) , but I expect it is 5 volts … (not sure if there is a way to measure it). Is there a way I can hook up here a very small device which puts out a little beep or dong, doesn’t have to be loud , just enough to hear something at 2 meters distance.

Thanks,
Cor

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My first thought was a Piezo, assuming you’re DC and in the spec range (voltage wise) or can add some other components (if not)

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@ Guessed: Cool, with some googling ( no clue what a piezo was) I found some things which can be usefull: this one for example:
[url=http://www.maplin.co.uk/musical-buzzer-3231#overview]http://www.maplin.co.uk/musical-buzzer-3231#overview[/url]

But I am also thinking of giftcards, when you open them , they play a sound … any thoughts on that?
;D
Thanks,
Cor

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You can get the little low voltage buzzers at Radio Shack or Fry’s.

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The card chime might work if you had an isolated closed-contact spare… I’ve never opened one up. I don’t imagine it would last long, as either its battery would bail or its enclosure would need to be seriously weatherized.

I’d imagine it’d be interesting to press a doorbell, and hear it playing ‘Happy birthday’ or ‘Jingle Bells’. :slight_smile:

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I like the idea. something like this works ?

evolve lfm 20 to activate a simple doorbel for a time specified in luup code.

I think exists more options cheap for a dry contact than lfm20. But it runs ?

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[quote=“guessed, post:5, topic:175000”]The card chime might work if you had an isolated closed-contact spare… I’ve never opened one up. I don’t imagine it would last long, as either its battery would bail or its enclosure would need to be seriously weatherized.

I’d imagine it’d be interesting to press a doorbell, and hear it playing ‘Happy birthday’ or ‘Jingle Bells’. :)[/quote]

I like the happy birthday option :slight_smile: The idea is to put the buzzer inside the enclosure of the gate electronics, so no problem with weather.

Cor