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Not happy with a standard doorbell and seeing as how mine was broken anyway, I decided to geek it out! So here it is…. it is simple really…… attach my existing doorbell buttons (I have two, one for the front door and one for the side door.) to the innards of an old USB keyboard. And using a little app magic (autohotkey)…. I have my front door connected to a computer (currently my intranet/print server in my basement) and every time the front door button is pressed it is pressing F10 on the keyboard and autohotkey is playing an WAV or MP3 file of my choosing. The side door does the same it just presses the F11 key and plays a different WAV or MP3…. The wiring is simple. I will try and post some better pics later.
Here is the code for autohotkey:
f10::SoundPlay, doorbell.wav, wait
f11::SoundPlay, doorbell2.wav, wait
The wav files are placed in the same directory as the autohotkey script. Otherwise you would have to declare the filenames with the paths…. example: c:\doorbell\whatever.wav .
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