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[mattjfrank (Matt)]

This thread has a couple different approaches to doorbell notifications that I would make good articles too.

A simple way to get alerts when your doorbell is rung

I just figured out a fairly simple way to get alerts when my doorbell is rung. I have a wired 24v doorbell. I believe many others work the same way as mine: Pushing the doorbell outside triggers a magnetic coil inside that fires a pin to hit the bell. I figured if it’s using magnetic power, then it might work with a z-wave door/window sensor. I took a z-wave door/window sensor and taped it right by the doorbell’s magnetic coil. It works flawlessly. The doorbell ringing affects that coil enough to make the z-wave sensor think that it switched from open to closed. I don’t quite have the know-how to create a smartapp for this, so I just called it a door sensor and set up an alert for when the door sensor opens. So when someone rings the doorbell I get this message, “Doorbell is open”…