A Custom Zigbee Doorbell

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  • zigbee2mqtt

    Zigbee 🐝 to MQTT bridge 🌉, get rid of your proprietary Zigbee bridges 🔨

  • Have you considered Zigbee2mqtt[0]? You'd be running an extra program, but the docs are really good, it's pretty lightweight, and MQTT is incredibly easy to talk to from python or basically anything else.

    [0] - https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/

  • doorbell2

  • I got a Sonoff RF gateway and flashed it with Tasmota. Now all the normal 433Mhz device work unchanged. My doorbell is unchanged, 3 year battery life and costs 10 bucks.

    The doorbell sound does ring on a custom device. A esp32 with an I2S class D amplifier that can play an an arbitrary mp3 from a web server with an mqtt command:

    https://github.com/mianos/doorbell2/tree/main/src

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  • esphome

    ESPHome is a system to control your ESP8266/ESP32 by simple yet powerful configuration files and control them remotely through Home Automation systems.

  • You might want to take a look at https://esphome.io/ for an easy integration of an ESP32/8266 into home Assistant.

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