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Domoticz Homebridge-Plugin
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Add support for doorbells #175

Closed NielsLeenheer closed 5 years ago

NielsLeenheer commented 5 years ago

Add the doorbell service for doorbells defined in Domoticz.

It is not possible to use the doorbell service on it's own as you need to combine it with a different service. The most logical service I could come up with was the stateless programmable switch service as the doorbell basically also is a switch.

When combined in this way the doorbell shows up in the Home app and allows you to turn on notifications. So whenever somebody pressed the doorbell you get a notification that says "{location} doorbell rang", where the location is name of the room where the doorbell is added.

Also, when in the same room there is also a camera present, it will basically act as a video doorbell. It shows a snapshot in the notification and allows you to look at the live video stream.

Combining it with a stateless programmable switch also offers an added bonus, but you can now configure the switch to activate a scene or turn on and off individual devices.

TLDR; doorbell with notifications, video from cam in the same room and programmable switch.

NielsLeenheer commented 5 years ago

BTW, I've not bothered with getting it working without MQTT, as it will not properly work anyway.