Doorbell sensor

I'd be afraid to press that door bell.. Looks more like self destruct!


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@durosity Do you have a link to a relay? No real idea what I'm doing here and will probably get a friendly sparky to wire it all in for me.
Also, any idea if the binary sensor can be set to silence the doorbell ringer sometimes? We have a few times when the little one is asleep and the postman thinks ringing it 4 times in a row is clever !!

It'd be something like this https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/121994581677

Using this you couldn't disable the wired doorbell. I suppose you could by having the doorbell hooked directly to the universal sensor (or any binary input) and have the bell connected to an independent relay, then just have a trigger to close/open the relay which of course you could disable of the kid is in bed.

So following on from this, and following a guide from Vesternet I have a Honeywell wireless doorbell, that is wired into a Fibaro door/window contact.

This works perfectly, IF you hold down the doorbell for a few seconds so Indigo registers that it's been pushed.
Ie, pushing it once would give you:
Doorbell is OPEN
Doorbell is CLOSED

If you just give it a quick tap, like most people do - all I get from Indigo is a line that re-registers it's existing state.
Ie. pushing it 3 times would get you.
Doorbell is CLOSED
Doorbell is CLOSED
Doorbell is CLOSED

I don't have a relay, which is the only missing thing from the Vesternet article, and my sparky could think why the relay would be needed. I'm now starting to guess that it holds the contact open for long enough to register to Indigo? Or am I really missing something obvious here?

Does the Last Updated field change? If so you could just base a trigger on that instead.

Ah, yes it does!

However Indigo only shows me On/Off State or Battery level as triggers. Is there any way to expose the last update field so I can use it?

Hmm strange, I thought last updated always showed but I've just been into my triggers and sure enough some devices last updated doesn't show up... Matt/Jay... I know you're terribly busy playing table tennis while thinking about starting work on Indigo 7, but if you have a chance could you add the option to always show the last updated field as a trigger option to that minutely small wish list of yours?

Hmm strange, I thought last updated always showed but I've just been into my triggers and sure enough some devices last updated doesn't show up... Matt/Jay... I know you're terribly busy playing table tennis while thinking about starting work on Indigo 7, but if you have a chance could you add the option to always show the last updated field as a trigger option to that minutely small wish list of yours?

*runs for cover*

Hehe.. honestly I have this horrible feeling that Jay will one day do his European tour that he was thinking of.. and he's gonna come to my house and lay me out. Or at least try to.. I'll just be sitting in bed watching my security feeds and see him, then use Indigo to turn on the sprinklers to shoo him away. Foiled by his own software!

soooooo, no way of fixing this in the interim?

Nothing I can think of within my capabilities. I was thinking perhaps watching for a zwave event but I'm only just starting to look at that functionality myself so it's all a bit of a mystery for me right now.

You could create a variable which contains the Time/Date stamp on a "Has Any Change" Trigger, which would come close.

Oooh clever idea!

I've configured it - will give it a test on my way home today

Fingers Crossed!

No go it doesn't update as the value doesn't change from open to closed