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Doorbell at gate

  • 09-12-2024 10:37PM
    #1
    foxirl
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    Hi, Looking for best option for doorbell at gate which will allow someone to ring bell and it will notify me on phone. Don't need motion detection, or chime in house or anything fancy. I have seen some of the phone notifications on youtube but they seem like they would be easily missed so would prefer something that would act similar to if some one was actually ringing your phone. Any recommendations would be great. Thanks



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  • #2
    mik_da_man
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    The issue I've found with this is the distance from the router to the gate, it may need some PoE/Access points down by the gate



  • #3
    foxirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 686 ✭✭✭foxirl


    Yes, I plan on putting an external access point close by.



  • #4
    elperello
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    Have you considered how important it is to you that people who don't have your mobile number should be able to call you ?

    How often do you think people who don't already have your number will need access ?



  • #5
    niallb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,775 ✭✭✭niallb


    I use an off the shelf wireless doorbell from Woodies at the gate.

    It's picked up by a sonoff rfbridge in the front window of the house and once that happens you have a lot of choices about how the app notifies you.

    €12 bell push + €25 rfbridge as far as I recall.

    I'll find out which bell I used exactly, because some don't work.



  • #6
    foxirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 686 ✭✭✭foxirl


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122944016#Comment_122944016

    Couple of times a week with my wife's addiction to online shopping ;-)



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  • #7
    niallb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,775 ✭✭✭niallb


    In case anyone's interested, this doorbell is compatible with the Sonoff RF-Bridge.
    Lloytron B7831W

    https://www.woodies.ie/lloytron-b7831wh-bell-push-transmitter-black-1180826

    You can also get a chime that plugs into a socket for when you are at home, but I didn't need one, so happy you could buy separately.



  • #8
    Johnboy1951
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122973491#Comment_122973491

    Have you come across anything like that doorbell which uses MQTT or would otherwise connect directly with HA? Local only - no internet.
    I might not be using correct terminology … just beginning to look at this stuff.



  • #9
    niallb
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    Hi there JB and Happy Christmas to you!

    I use the Sonoff RF Bridge to notify the received doorbell to an MQTT broker to use with Home Assistant. It's running Tasmota and it works with the default mosquitto broker installed with home assistant.

    I use RF 433MHz controllers and buttons for all sorts of things in HA. All my family prefer buttons to talking to a cloud AI.



  • #10
    Johnboy1951
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122992388#Comment_122992388

    … and a peaceful and prosperous New Year to you too mate! 😉
    Yes I have been reading up on the use of the bridge, I was just wondering if there is a switch/button device that sends MQTT protocol signals natively or if you had come across such a device. I have in mind an application within the home rather than something exterior. I too have Tasmota on a few devices, but recently I have added MQTT to them, having set up HA on an old PC for testing. I am impressed with HA - or at least the little I have understood so far.

    Anyway if you think of something do let me know. 😃

    I suppose it might be possible to use an ESP8266 dev board and some other bits and pieces with a battery to make such a device …….. maybe ….

    EDIT:

    BTW, did you also flash the RF chip on the bridge as well as putting Tasmota on it?



  • #11
    niallb
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    😊

    Anything with tasmota on it and a switch/button/gpio input can talk to MQTT pretty easily. I chose the 433MHz RF stuff because it has much lower power consumption.

    I did not flash the RF chip on the bridge so I'm limited in the formats I can pick up, but it's rock stable. The portisch firmware didn't look like it was going to be maintained long-term and most of what I had was picked up ok by the default.

    Take a look at esphome while you're in there!



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  • #12
    Johnboy1951
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,081 ✭✭✭✭Johnboy1951


    Wow! I am being exposed to things I never knew existed, such as this RF switch

    https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006310453218.html



    I definitely need to explore a lot more before doing anything! 😁 😀



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