Good news. This DB still is on top, in my opinion, until a newer Gen. comes out.
New RCA HSDB2A 3MP Doorbell IP Camera
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Good point. Main reason we were considering series wiring, in the past, was due to having only one power kit. gjortz was able to have Nelly's send him another one so he has one for each Chime, that was kewl of Nelly's to do that. LaView told me they had no Accessories for our DB.
Series wiring was never tested, to my understanding, so it is scraped.
New member here. I've been Using the LaView One Halo since Dec now. I love it. Software on the App isn't great but not to worried. is there a way to monitor if the button is pressed? I have ONVIF running fine with Homebrige and homekit but it would be nice to set notifications of when the button is pressed though home bridge and homekit so I can have actions triggered when the button is pressed. The really only problem I have with it is that I want to have WiFi chimes working with it and when I talked to LaView they said it wasn't an option on this model. Just trying to find another way to monitor when the doorbell button was pressed. Ideally though homebridge/homekit but would be happy if I could pair a few wifi chimes with it for each floor of my house.
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Is your Homebridge set up with a Zigbee radio and plugin? If so, maybe look into Sage Doorbell sensor.
Nope no Zigbee on my home bridge. I'm just wondering if there is a JSON or HTTP command I can monitor even on the camera like I do with the snapshot image. Ideally have the camera send me a message when ever the button is pressed like the NEST and RING do to their wifi chimes. I'd be fine with a UDP broadcast even when the button is pressed I could listen for
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Not that i know of however unless I remembered incorrectly but I believe I recalled several post of folks here trying to find a way to detect button pressed and had no luck.
From the top of my head, probably your best bet is to find a wifi dry contact sensor and connect it to your doorbell like you would with a chime then use it to send the command to Homebridge to operate the wifi chimes and other notifications of your choosing.
I don't know if there exist a WiFi dry contact sensor but I know there are Zwave and Zigbee dry contact sensor. Maybe there is a kit version of WiFi dry contact sensor somewhere on the net.
I came across this and since the source code is opensorce I could rewrite the Arduino code to work the way I want but was trying not to add additional hardware and a battery. WiFi Doorbell Sensor
Yeah detecting Button Press is exactly what I"m trying to monitor. You would think this would be an easy thing in this day and age and this doorbell has just about everything else I want from it too. It really is a great product.
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Yup and companies don't want to make their product wide open or accessible. They may have plan for it in future to sell accessories only locked to their brands to keep $$$$$$$$ in their own pockets.
I use all of the radios in my home automation - Wifi, Zwave Plus and Zigbee which give me the wide selections of devices to choose from or built from for my home automation needs.
it operates under Hubitat Hub along with RasPi running Homebridge and Red Node. The AppleTV is used for my Homekit Hub..
The doorbell is detected using the Sage Sensor which is linked to the Hubitat hub with a rule set up to send notification to other devices etc.
I am not limited or restricted to any cloud locked devices or hardware. iI my internet goes down, everything still operates on my local network.
My monthly fee? - BIG FAT ZERO!
brad_g
Getting the hang of it
Totally. But strangely enough, there is no built-in way to get the doorbell button press. However, pete_c came up with a solution which you can read about here. Also, if you go to the search function and type in
reed switch you will find several people who have worked out solutions. Hope this helps.I had already read that, but I have a 3D printer in the workshop, so it would be stupid to buy one if you can print it yourself.
Then I will design something - "thanks" Corona is now enough time for that
Tagging these two posts because they asked about 3d printing a bracket, but there is a 30 degree one on thingiverse using the same design as the original... I know it doesn't quite answer either, but since it wasn't mentioned I figured I'd add it to the knowledge base lol. It isn't quite the angle I need, but it's way better than the plates that came with it.
RCA Video Doorbell 30° Base by DanNowlan
This is an angled base for an RCA video doorbell. The base is angled 30° to the SIDE for use where the doorbell is mounted on the wall adjacent to the door rather than on the same wall as the door.The original mounts use machine threaded screws to attach the unit to the base. For ease of...
www.thingiverse.com
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alexdelprete
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Probably I was not clear when I wrote about my experience with the upgrade of my Ezviz Db1 to Hikvision's latest fw: It works with Alexa, Google Home and ONVIF works perfectly with my Synology.
I wrote some posts providing pictures of Alexa and Google Home (on my nvidia tv pro 2019) showing the camera stream.
Sorry if I disappeared gentlemen, it's a busy and difficult period. But David is back, so everybody is in good hands.
Will be back soon...
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Probably I was not clear when I wrote about my experience with the upgrade of my Ezviz Db1 to Hikvision's latest fw: It works with Alexa, Google Home and ONVIF works perfectly with my Synology.
I wrote some posts providing pictures of Alexa and Google Home (on my nvidia tv pro 2019) showing the camera stream.
Sorry if I disappeared gentlemen, it's a busy and difficult period. But David is back, so everybody is in good hands.
Will be back soon...
But at the cost of having the doorbell ring sound outside correct?
alexdelprete
Getting comfortable
Exactly. The only way to disable that is to have the Ezviz fw and use the Ezviz mobile app. It is a OEM customization of the firmware, only Ezviz did it.
In my case I wanted it on, so Hikivision's fw is perfect.
If Ezviz adds ONVIF support, it would be the best fw, right now I recommend Hikvision's.
Welcome back...Probably I was not clear when I wrote about my experience with the upgrade of my Ezviz Db1 to Hikvision's latest fw: It works with Alexa, Google Home and ONVIF works perfectly with my Synology.
I wrote some posts providing pictures of Alexa and Google Home (on my nvidia tv pro 2019) showing the camera stream.
Sorry if I disappeared gentlemen, it's a busy and difficult period. But David is back, so everybody is in good hands.
Will be back soon...
I have the Ezviz and wnet up to the Hikvision firmware and i still have the outside bell option in the Ezviz app, i think @alexdelprete has experienced this.
Good idea, yeah it is best to reserve through DHCP an IP via your MAC address of your DB. I do the same with most all of my WiFi devices...
But could you disable the outside doorbell sound with the ezviz app? Did you test this?
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Tagging these two posts because they asked about 3d printing a bracket, but there is a 30 degree one on thingiverse using the same design as the original... I know it doesn't quite answer either, but since it wasn't mentioned I figured I'd add it to the knowledge base lol. It isn't quite the angle I need, but it's way better than the plates that came with it.
RCA Video Doorbell 30° Base by DanNowlan
This is an angled base for an RCA video doorbell. The base is angled 30° to the SIDE for use where the doorbell is mounted on the wall adjacent to the door rather than on the same wall as the door.The original mounts use machine threaded screws to attach the unit to the base. For ease of...
Thanks for the link to the 3D bracket! Just ordered one from an online 3D printing service
Finally getting rid of the wall on the recordings