ESPHome based doorbell (updated)

About two years ago I had one of my first (blogged) project: Making my doorbell smart This is working perfectly since I’ve made it and many others have made it the same way, like our famous Frenck did ☺️ The problem has been all the time that an extra power supply was needed to power the ESP. Well, not anymore…

I’ve been using some well known buck converters from AliExpress for a long time. They’re cheap, small and perfect for powering ESP’s. Then the idea emerged, why not combine it all together? Making use of the doorbell transformer and get rid of the extra power supply?

The idea was to make a hat that fit on the Wemos mini and integrate the buck converter, relay and connectors. Luckily those schematics are easy to find and I recreated the schematic and integrated that on the hat:

Proof of concept

When all components arrived, I noticed I made a little mistake: the capacitor on the input was only 16 volt, and my design is made for ~30 volt AC or DC in. With these components I made the pcb and tested it on max 15 volt in. It worked perfectly!

Now I know for sure it works, I’ll have to make some tiny adjustments to the layout (bigger capacitor and some silk text on the pcb). Once that is done, I might be thinking of selling it as a hat in my shop ☺️

ESPHome code

While my ESPHome yaml code is working fine, there was room for improvement. Looking at Frenck his code, I saw he did some nice extra’s in the code. So I borrowed some of his ideas and combined it with my needs:

esphome:
  name: doorbell
  platform: ESP8266
  board: d1_mini

wifi:
  ssid: !secret wifi_ssid
  password: !secret wifi_password


# Enable logging
logger:

# Enable Home Assistant API
api:

ota:

time:
  - platform: homeassistant
    id: homeassistant_time

text_sensor:
  - platform: version
    name: Doorbell ESPHome Version
  - platform: wifi_info
    ip_address:
      name: Doorbell IP
    ssid:
      name: Doorbell SSID
    bssid:
      name: Doorbell BSSID

sensor:
  - platform: uptime
    name: Doorbell Uptime
  - platform: wifi_signal
    name: Doorbell WiFi Signal
    update_interval: 60s

globals:
  - id: chime
    type: bool
    restore_value: true
    initial_value: 'true'

switch:
  - platform: gpio
    pin:
      number: D1
      inverted: false
    name: "Doorbell Relay"
    id: relay
    internal: true
    icon: mdi:alarm-bell
  - platform: restart
    name: "Doorbell Restart"
  - platform: template
    name: Doorbell Chime Active
    id: chime_active
    restore_state: false
    turn_on_action:
      - globals.set:
          id: chime
          value: 'true'
    turn_off_action:
      - globals.set:
          id: chime
          value: 'false'
    lambda: |-
      return id(chime);
    
binary_sensor:
  - platform: gpio
    pin:
      number: D5
      mode: INPUT_PULLUP
      inverted: true
    name: "Doorbell"
    filters:
      - delayed_on: 50ms
      - delayed_off: 50ms
    on_press:
      then:
        if:
          condition:
            - switch.is_on: chime_active
          then:
            - switch.turn_on: relay
    on_release:
      - switch.turn_off: relay
  - platform: status
    name: "Status Doorbell"