This has little commercial value but scores a +1 on fun.
I have a traditional doorbell that runs off a 16VAC transformer and 40 year old doorbell push switch. Not terrible exciting, but extremely reliable.
Then I decided I needed an event on my HS3.
NEEDED. really.
So I decided the best way to get the event was to go old school and make a circuit to trip a z-wave door sensor.
At Best Buy I bought an Aeotec door sensor.
And then took it apart. The reed switch was easy to identify and attached two leads.
It even went back together with the leads running out through a screw hole. Then I took a quick trip to the electronics store and bought 4 diodes (50V 1A) and 1 24VDC relay.
Now I am a bit off here. I recall that when you make a rectifier (4 diodes) the convert the AC to DC you get more DC volts at your meter than AC because you essentially get the peaks not the RMS of the AC and using 1.4x as my guide I figured I would get 23 VDC, but nope, my rectifier spits out 16.5VDC.
So I hoped that my 24VDC relay would trip fast enough, usually they want 75% of the 24VDC. But fear not, worked like a charm.
Clipped it all together on a spring clip breadboard and viola!
When my doorbell rings I get my HS3 event.
Have a great day!
Daniel
Current Date/Time: 9/6/2016 8:06:22 AM
HomeSeer Version: HS3 Pro Edition 3.0.0.293
Linux version: Linux hometrollerSEL 3.16.0-031600-generic #201408031935 SMP Sun Aug 3 23:56:17 UTC 2014 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux System Uptime: 4 Days 1 Hour 23 Minutes 17 Seconds
Number of Devices: 108
Number of Events: 44
Available Threads: 199
Enabled Plug-Ins
3.0.2.0: AquaConnect
3.0.0.27: EasyTrigger
3.0.0.103: HSTouch Server
1.0.16239.295: MyQ
3.0.0.27: Vista Alarm
3.0.1.92: Z-Wave
I have a traditional doorbell that runs off a 16VAC transformer and 40 year old doorbell push switch. Not terrible exciting, but extremely reliable.
Then I decided I needed an event on my HS3.
NEEDED. really.
So I decided the best way to get the event was to go old school and make a circuit to trip a z-wave door sensor.
At Best Buy I bought an Aeotec door sensor.
And then took it apart. The reed switch was easy to identify and attached two leads.
It even went back together with the leads running out through a screw hole. Then I took a quick trip to the electronics store and bought 4 diodes (50V 1A) and 1 24VDC relay.
Now I am a bit off here. I recall that when you make a rectifier (4 diodes) the convert the AC to DC you get more DC volts at your meter than AC because you essentially get the peaks not the RMS of the AC and using 1.4x as my guide I figured I would get 23 VDC, but nope, my rectifier spits out 16.5VDC.
So I hoped that my 24VDC relay would trip fast enough, usually they want 75% of the 24VDC. But fear not, worked like a charm.
Clipped it all together on a spring clip breadboard and viola!
When my doorbell rings I get my HS3 event.
Have a great day!
Daniel
Current Date/Time: 9/6/2016 8:06:22 AM
HomeSeer Version: HS3 Pro Edition 3.0.0.293
Linux version: Linux hometrollerSEL 3.16.0-031600-generic #201408031935 SMP Sun Aug 3 23:56:17 UTC 2014 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux System Uptime: 4 Days 1 Hour 23 Minutes 17 Seconds
Number of Devices: 108
Number of Events: 44
Available Threads: 199
Enabled Plug-Ins
3.0.2.0: AquaConnect
3.0.0.27: EasyTrigger
3.0.0.103: HSTouch Server
1.0.16239.295: MyQ
3.0.0.27: Vista Alarm
3.0.1.92: Z-Wave
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