Based on the Fibaro binary sensor we modified our excisting doorbell so it sends messages (via Prowl) to our smartphones. We tried the everspring without succes and therefore we did some solding and came up with a modifcation for our own doorbell, which is now Z-wave compatible :). If you are interested you can see how we did it here, http://www.robbshop.nl/over-z-wave/z-wave-projecten.
In case of questions, were always open to questions. There is also a video - YouTube
Unfortunately the text is in dutch at the moment, let us know if u want english translation.
Hi this thread is old, but i would like to do what you have done with the doorbell but cannot make sense of the dutch description… if you had one in english that would be great !
Hardware set up…
Fibaro universal sensor, ordinary doorbell switch attached to an old fashioned electromechanical doorbell that simply needs the momentary contact of the switch to trigger it.
Power down doorbell
Cut 2 core cable between door bell sounder and switch
Attach the 2 core cable from the bell switch across one input using the flying lead of the fibaro universal sensor - I used input #1 hence it is attached to blue (ground) and yellow (input 1).
Attach the 2 core cable from the doorbell sounder across the corresponding output relay (ie the ones with the screw terminals) in my case output 1
Power up doorbell
Power up and associate the universal sensor
Note in my case as I was using a high current demand bell (ie exceeding the 150mA at 36V DC) I actually triggered a second larger relay which then triggers the doorbell but with any modern doorbell this is likely to be uneccessary.
Software side…
3 movement sensors are created (along with temp probes if you fit any)
One of these will be the parent and 2 will be corresponding to input outputs 1 and 2 - you can tell these as their altid will be e1 and e2 respectively.
Ensure that you set the movement sensor to normally closed (ie for input output 1 set parameter 3 to zero on the parent device) - note that this doesn’t take effect until you have pressed the bell switch at least once - don’t know why but it fooled me because after configuring the unit it still said it was “movement active” despite being on an open circuit.
Then if you press the doorbell then it should ring as normal.
Then simply decide what you want to the doorbell to do.
In my case there is a simple scene set that says if the bell sensor is armed then send a pushover notification via the excellent vera alerts plugin to my phone saying the bell has rung.
I am also working on another variation which explains the other wiring in the diagram attached where an alarm contact that is a normal closed door mag switch is attached to the other input output. Essentially this says that if the bell is rung and after 10 seconds the door is not opened then even if not armed send an alert and further alerts at 15 and 20 seconds.
My actual setup is somewhat more complicated that the basic setup as it not only uses an intermediate relay and incorporates the door sensor it also has temperature probes attached which go to the exterior of the house, the hot water tank, a shower hot water feed (to use heat rise on the get pipe to indicate water is flowing to trigger an extractor fan and a temp sensor in a room which does not already have a z wave thermostat.
I can post an image of the basic wiring setup tomorrow if anybody needs it.
I also put a condensor in the circuit. sometime the time the bellbutton is pressed is not long enough to have a trigger. Now when the button is pressed the condensor is charged in parallel and the press time is increased.
Only thing is the slow mail notifications of mcv. Takes minutes…
@SanderL. Ref slow mail speed I had the same issue so if it suites your purpose it’s worth going for a push alert based system as well. So far, after some tweaking, I have pushover working on ios7 and it is proving very quick and reliable.