The other functionality of this code is to silence the doorbell. Since the LED flashes on and off twice and we only want to be alerted one time by each doorbell ring there’s a little bit of code here that limits the number of messages sent to 1 every 6 seconds. You can obviously change this to any message you want to fit in with your MQTT schema. If that pin goes to HIGH we’ll send an MQTT message to Doorbell with the message Ding. We use a NodeMCU as an MQTT client and monitor one of the GPIO pins for a high signal that corresponds to the LED. The small doorbell PCB is powered the 3v3 pin and the ground pin on the NodeMCU. We can power the whole thing using a USB micro cable plugged into a 5V wall brick. We’ll connect D4 to the base of our transistor to control whether the chime is active, and we’ll also hook up our reed switch to both D3 and Ground. We’re going to hook up the LED output to pin D0 because this pin on the ESP8266 has a built in pull-down resistor, which means we don’t need to add one ourselves. This plastic container will make a great housing for our project, but if you want to use a different enclosure it’s a good idea to label the buttons on the board so you don’t forget what they do… don’t ask me how I know that.
We’re also going to add an MQTT switch to silence the doorbell chime, and optionally a reed switch to detect the state of the front door. Our modified version is going to use the LED output to determine whether the doorbell has been pressed to send notifications.
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Out of the box the doorbell has 3 modes: LED only, LED plus sound, and sound only. They make a version of this with an AC wall plug that includes the transformer from 120V AC to 3v DC, but I didn’t want to mess with mains voltage for this project, so I just went with the battery powered one. I specifically selected the battery version of this doorbell because I knew it ran off 2 double AA batteries, or the equivalent of 3 volts, which happens to be a voltage my NodeMCU can supply. We’re going to combine this thing with an ESP8266 nodeMCU board to give it wifi capabilities.
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11 dollars and two days later I had this doorbell by the company 1 by 1, now I actually built this project over a year ago, so I asked 1 by 1 to send me a free one to take apart for this video, but they never responded up so I went ahead and just bought another one, you guys are worth it right? I figured there was no reason to reinvent the wheel here, so I headed over to amazon to get a super cheap wireless doorbell. And third, I’ve tried to craft my smart home to function primarily on my local network and avoid cloud services whenever possible so internet outages don’t render the system useless and this allows me to keep with that theme. Second, I already have a camera pointed at my front door, so adding another camera on the doorbell seemed like overkill. First, I do not have a wired doorbell on my house, so I would have had to use the battery operated version, which I’ve not heard great things about. The ring doorbell is pretty cool, but a few things about my smart home setup made me decide against buying it.
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