Z-wave Doorbell with an electronic door chime?

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Anyone have any ideas if this would work?

I’m trying to create a z-wave doorbell, but I want to keep my existing Honeywell wireless door chime system (http://yourhome.honeywell.com/home/Products/Door+Chimes/Wireless+Chimes/RCWL300A.htm).

Is it possible to open/close a Hawking z-wave door contact inside of the electronic door chime from the electromagnetic activity when the speaker goes off? (it has a speaker instead of a bell).

Any insight would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

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I think what you want to do, is wire the contacts from the Z-Wave door sensor to the door bell button’s contacts. Since the door bell button is wireless there shouldn’t be any concern with sending doorbell voltage (16VDC) through the Z-Wave door sensor. You’ll have to experiment to see if you can get a good “trigger” from a momentary contact using a Z-Wave door sensor. You can try to do something in the Chime, but since it is electronic you’d have to find a source to trigger the contacts in the Z-Wave door sensor (not sure the speaker connection will work).

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Blind control modules such as the one from Duwi (in EU) have outputs for closing contacts.

There’s three connections, one for common and two others (open and close for the blind). One wire of the doorbell would go to common, the other to open or close.

You can fit a battery powered zwave switch as the doorbell switch. Get this to trigger the blind module which then triggers the bell.

Really complicated and messy though :slight_smile:

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I’m now wondering if I can wire a coil in parallel to the door bell speaker, which would activate a window sensor i have.

Any ideas from electricians before I proceed?

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The speaker will likely be taking a low-power AC signal. That won’t usefully drive an electromagnet to trigger a reed switch (assuming that is what your window sensor is): you would need DC, and a higher current.

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The chime is batteries operated with three AA. Would that work?

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Hi, just wondering if any progress had been made on this as I am interested in doing this sort of thing too. I looked at the Fibraro relay switches but they seem to need a permanent live 230v feed…l

Anymore thoughts ?

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I haven’t had much progress but I’m hoping someone with a electrical background would chime in. I need a low voltage relay to trigger a reed switch on my window sensor.

Would 5v work or is there something lower I can find at radio shack?

I have a speaker on the door chime and I would like to wire the relay to it in parallel.

Thoughts?

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How about this product from Evolve. Seems like its already got everything you need, your Vera just needs to be setup to trigger a scene/sound. I’m interested in using one of these to play a doorbell sound from my Squeezebox when someone comes to the door.

http://www.eguestcontrols.com/products/director-series-controllers/lcd-d/

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It is nice to see something on the market, but this looks to be for condos, apts, or interior use. I’d need something in stainless or exterior grade.

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Use the following with the doorbell switch of choice, and either a HRDS1 or similar…
http://www.elkproducts.com/_webapp_2981405/ELK-930_Doorbell_and_Telephone_Ring_Detector
More info here:
http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php/topic,9093.0.html

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I’ve got my doorbell integrated with the Vera for over a month now. For those that are interested in tapping into a battery operated speaker chime, one way you can do is to hook up the speaker terminals to an Arduino pin, which then communicates to the Vera through serial.

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This thread inspired me to have a go at integrating a Byron SX wireless doorbell range into my Vera system by connecting it to an Everspring SM103 Door and Window Sensor. I already have 5 doorbell receivers located around the house, and I didn’t want to replace or waste them. I am UK based, so I have to work with a limited number of Z-Wave devices.

I chose to modify a Byron Sx15i Cordless Wall Mounted Bell because it is designed to handle more current to drive the solenoid that hits the traditional bell. I expected the power to the solenoid to be continuous, but it turns out that the electronics switch power on and off rapidly to cause the ringing sound. So I had to improvise by adding a 2200 microfarrad capacitor to smooth out the pulses. This now drives a 3 volt micro relay that I’ve fitted inside the bell unit. (I removed the solenoid).

The NC contacts of the micro relay are connected to the SM103 terminal in the usual way. Since I won’t be mounting the SM103 to a fixed surface I have fastened the tamper switch down so that it will always show as armed.

This works really well in Vera to trigger a scene that turn on a lamp when the bell rings. :slight_smile:
Eventually I will use this scene pause the SkyHD box and/or Sonos music player, but that is for another day…

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I use a z-wave door sensor which has terminal blocks. These can be connected to a switch (normally closed, push to break) then when this triggers I use the event to switch on a Fibaro switch for 3 seconds. The Fibaro module just switches 8v AC supplied by a transformer to a traditional door chime.

Works fine and I get notified when the doorbell has been rung while I’m out :slight_smile: