Doorbell event in Blocky always fired

[Skef]

Hi all,

I am trying to bind some events to my doorbell. For example, to switch on the light in the hall 3 seconds after the doorbell is pressed. I have a KAKU doorbell, which works great. But, the status is always "On". So when I activate this event, my light always get switched on when I switch it off manually.

How can I make sure the light doesn't switch on automatically again?
I only want this event to happen when my doorbell is actually pressed, and not always when the status of the doorbell is "On".
I also tried to set my doorbell to "Off" in this same condition, but that doesn't work.
In my camera config I also set that a snapshot is sent when the doorbell is pressed, and this works like a charm.

[jvdz]

So what is the status of the Doorbell and how does it change when it is pressed and released?
You can see the status changes in the device log.

Jos

[Skef]

Hi Jos,

The status is always "On", and when the doorbell is pressed a new "On" signal is sent. I need this event only to trigger when a new "On" signal is sent.
As far as I can see there is no possibility to have the doorbell set to "Off", or I must be missing something? I use the standard KAKU implementation for doorbells, since it's a KAKU doorbell.

[chatjozef]

make a dummy switch and call it "Doorbell_status" or something like that.

On the doorbell put this link in the by on action: http://IPADRESS:8080/json.htm?type=comm ... itchcmd=On
Change IDX 99 to the IDX of the Doorbell_status switch.

use the doorbell_status switch in your blocky and its working fine.
I have the same solution.

[jvdz]

I know how to do this in LUA as you can make that fire only when a device changes, but am unsure how that works with Blockly.

Jos

[Skef]

make a dummy switch and call it "Doorbell_status" or something like that.

On the doorbell put this link in the by on action: http://IPADRESS:8080/json.htm?type=comm ... itchcmd=On
Change IDX 99 to the IDX of the Doorbell_status switch.

use the doorbell_status switch in your blocky and its working fine.

And then you set the dummy switch to off with the blockly script?

[chatjozef]

Excuse me, I forgot to say, that the off delay of the doorbell_status is set for 1 second

[Hugoo2018]

Hi Skef

You mentioned in your post : "In my camera config I also set that a snapshot is sent when the doorbell is pressed, and this works like a charm."

To which device are you sending the snapshot and how did you do this?

Thnx Hugo