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That kinda seems like a bug? Is there an open issue in HA issues? |
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The doorbell should now be implemented as an event entity. The event entity was not available when it was originally added to Home Assistant The integration is looking for a maintainer, and I’m just helping out to keep it warm until someone can be found, so we have to wait for them to take a look at that unless it's something you would like to add to HA |
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I do not believe there is an open issue at HA, would you recommend I create one? Thank you for all your efforts @bdraco, I've followed the events here and appreciate the work you all do. |
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Yes please. Hopefully someone knows what's wrong. I will have access to a UI doorbell next month when I'm visiting family so I can try to replicate it than if nobody has come up with a solution by than.
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@bdraco, I'm happy to send you G4 Doorbell to keep if you like. It's a non-Pro version but it should work. Let me know. |
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My doorbell works fine, it is in HA as This still works after HA version 2024.6.2. |
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That is an Occupancy sensor and not associated with the physical doorbell button on the device. |
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I just logged into my family members's HA install and noticed that these sensors are disabled by default. Once I enabled it, its showing the last ring as expected. I'm physically ~4000 miles away from where its located so I can't actually do any live testing though. 
Is there a chance the sensor is disabled in HA? |
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I am sorry, then I have misunderstood the issue... |
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Correct, I did the same thing. The "Last Doorbell Ring" entity is disabled by default. It's the closest entity type I can find that meets my needs. But I'm afraid the only available states are Unknown and Unavailable; nothing that is associated with button presses on the device itself. Is there something else in HA I have to enable? |
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On second thought, that sensor I mentioned is the one I use to detect the button being pressed... pretty sure that is what it is for... Is that not what you want? |
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Yes, that binary sensor is what I also use for the doorbell press. However, it's just marked as an Occupancy sensor by default.
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None of the other options really make sense. Seems HA should add a "button" type so it's either Pressed or Not-Pressed. |
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Is it not occupied as long as it's pressed? I cannot test that now as the family is already sleeping... |
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It's exactly what I want, but that specific sensor doesn't function that way for me. It seems to flip between Cleared and Detected based on camera detection. This I've tested. Pressing the doorbell does not toggle this state. I have the G4 Doorbell Pro PoE if this matters. |
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I'm afraid not. Pressing the physical doorbell button does not toggle this state for me. Perhaps you can test when your family wakes? Haha |
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Yes it does, I just tested it... |
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I do know that the specific sensor you are referring to changes states from Cleared to Occupied on camera movement in my case. So for my automation, the chime will be ringing through the house speakers when motion is detected. Very not wife approved. I'll test again when I get home in case something has changed in recent updates. |
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I cleaned up the HA integration quite a bit this week so it should be much easier to add an event platform for the doorbell if anyone is interested in taking a stab at it |
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You aren't kidding. That's a lot of changes you made haha. I'll certainly test and get back to you after the weekend. I struggled listening to any protect events at the start of all this. |
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home-assistant/core#119746 has some more cleanups as well. There is probably some more cleanups for has_entity_name that could be done to reduce the code a bit more |
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I did some more cleanup over the weekend. We still need to do entity translations but I think the entity base classes are lean enough that it won't cause any conflicts if someone does pickup adding an event entity |
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I lack the knowledge to do anything like that, but I do want to thank you for all this great work that you did. |
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Since this is turning into a discussion, I'm going to go ahead and convert it |
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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Currently HA users only have access to the "last_doorbell_ring" sensor, and the only available states are "Unavailable" and "Unknown".
My doorbell automation sends chimes through my house speakers. It's set to trigger on any state change. This works when the doorbell button is pressed, but the state sometimes changes randomly without apparent reason, causing doorbell chimes at odd hours like 3:30am. Not at all wife approved.
I'm wondering if another sensor can be added that supports "Pressed" and "Released" states.
Describe alternatives you've considered
I'm not aware of alternatives, but open to using a workaround if someone has one in mind.
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