Anyone who connected a regular "old" doorbell to OH?

[rossko57]

Apartment style door intercoms have more in common with telephones.
These threads have ideas

Trying to send a notification only once

I have hacked my doorbell/intercom to send a notification when it is rung. However, the hack is triggered by talking on the intercom as well, so I would like to send one notification and then wait 3 minutes. In my items file I have: Contact Door_Bell "Door Bell [%s]" <shield> (Outdoor, Security_Sensors) {mqtt="<[mosquitto:/house/esp/bell_state:state:MAP(bell.map)]"} Switch Door_Bell_Notification (Systems, Security_Sensors) The rule I have written is: var Timer tDoorB…

Detect sound

Hi all, A friend of mine who lives in an apartment complex reprogrammed the door phone so that it automatically open the front door down stairs when someone rings his doorbell. I think this is a brilliant Idea, however my door phone can’t be reprogrammed. So currently I am controlling it through openhab/Amazon Echo (soldered out the open button to relay hooked up to rpi with OH). But it would be nice to just press my name and then the door opens(like when coming home with ur hands full, and not…