Doorbell, MQTT and open hab

Setup, Configuration and Use Beginners
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Hello,

I have setup a doorbell using MQTT. I now want to get the openhab to alert me when someone presses a doorbell. Whats the best way of achieving this?

I’ve used a ESP8266 mini d1 and that sends a signal to MQTT when the doorbell is pressed. I can listen to the topic I’ve setup (“Home/Hallway/sensor/Door/Bell”) using MQTTFX. I’ve struggled to find something that will help me setup the open hab side of notifying me.

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For the MQTT part:

http://docs.openhab.org/addons/bindings/mqtt1/readme.html

For the notification:

http://docs.openhab.org/addons/actions.html

  • NotifyMyAndroid, Prowl, Pushover, et.
  • look at Audio Actions for audible alerts
  • look at openHAB Cloud Connector to get alerts from your phone app directly
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Thanks so much for replying :slight_smile: I already edited the services/mqtt.cfg file with details of MQTT server. The MQTT message that is sent from ESP 8266 is “Home/Door/sensor/Door/Bell” and the entry is “Someone has pressed the bell”.

From the document you sent, the link below looks like I should add, what should I change this to for the MQTT message I’m sending?

Switch doorbell “bell [%s]” {mqtt=“<[mybroker:myHome/doorbell:command:ON]”}

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Put your topic in instead of the example’s topic.

You probably want to use a MAP transform to convert the message being sent to ON.

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OK brill, ive changed the source message to match the destination format "Home/1stFloor/Hallway/FrontDoor/Bell/ " “ON” and added the line below to services/mqtt.cfg

Switch doorbell “bell [%s]” {mqtt=“Switch doorbell “bell [%s]” {mqtt=”<[openhabbroker:Home/1stFloor/Hallway/FrontDoor/Bell:command:ON]"}

Where do I enter the actions openHAB Cloud Connector so i can get alerts to it when the doorbell is pressed? I have previously setup the cloud configuration and I get notifications if say the internet goes down and it looses the connection to openhab.

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Create a rule and call the actions in the rule.

http://docs.openhab.org/tutorials/beginner/index.html

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Thanks, I’ve been following through the instructions buts its showing the router as offline in basic map ive created even though it shows as online in paper UI → control menu:

Here’s what ive setup

Default.Items:

Switch Router_Active “Router” { channel=“network:device:192_168_1_1:online” }

Default.sitemap

sitemap default label="My first sitemap"
{
    Switch item=Router_Active label="Router"
}

Basic site map

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paper ui → control

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maybe this will help setting up the mqtt part in openhab

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I’ve been trying to figure out why router is showing offline. The only thing I’ve noticed is that the symbol I have on the basic ui is a power symbol (even though I’ve set it to network) and the picture on tutorial is a network symbol. Any ideas why im not getting the network symbol?

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You have a Switch and you did not specify the icon. By default all Switches use the power symbol as its icon.

http://docs.openhab.org/configuration/items.html