Doorbell kaku with rfxcomm

Post by **Kroonen** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 12:55 pm

Hi,

Is this doorbell work with rfxcom?? ou receive the signal, so that i can take a picture with a spy cam.

http://www.klikaanklikuit.nl/product_detail.asp?id=41

greetz Richard

Post by **b_weijenberg** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 12:56 pm

Post by **Digit** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 1:43 pm

Yep;

i have it working for a couple of months now, without any problems.

Robert.

Post by **Bwired** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 1:44 pm

Thats right I have 2 of these KAKU doorbells in my home. When somebody rings my doorbell the traditional Bell is ringing as well a Kaku doorbell in my office an in the kitchen. It is triggered with the RFXcom transmitter. This transmitter can also open my Harrison electrical curtains.
check out this topic about doorbells etc http://www.domoticaforum.eu/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=131

KAKU (klik aan klik uit) doorbell

Post by **Kroonen** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 2:37 pm

have you the existing beldrukker, paralell the new one on the beldrukker placed?

Richard

Post by **Bwired** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 2:57 pm

I have my existing doorbell pusher, I find the KAKU very ugly. I have a X10 module for triggering, but can be done with Visonic and many other devices, depend on you HA system.

Post by **Jeroen Bartels** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 10:31 am

I just bought a KAKU CDB-6500BC wireless doorbel. I would like to use the doorbel transmitter to trigger events in homeseer2 but I don't know what (and) if an X10 code is transmitted. Besides that I also don't know how to have an event ring the doorbell. (again, what code)(I use the 87005 receiver/transmitter with LAN)
Who can help me out?

Post by **TANE** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 11:14 am

Kaku Doorbel has a fix device address 8..you can self select the Housecode.
First you have configure RFXcom that you can receive Kaku signals.

Making a event is so easy as all the other events in Homeseer.
I'm triggering 3 different things when the bell rings.
-IP video capture
-Send SMS
-Toggle some lights.

Dutch:
Gamma heeft wat Kaku aanbiedingen met 25% korting oa. extra unit voor de Kaku Bel.
Het gaat om dezelfde type...met een andere verpakking. Let op de nummers.

Post by **b_weijenberg** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 11:50 am

The easiest way to check is to use RFreceiver.
Stop homeseer and start http://www.rfxcom.com/documents/RFreceiver.zip

ARC receiving mode must be enabled in RFreceiver and also in the RFXCOM plug-in!

Post by **Jeroen Bartels** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 12:59 am

Thanks guys for the tip. It works. Now I have to see what events will take place when somebody rings the bell.

@Chak: I did buy the doorbell at Gamma but no discount there. I also cannot see it in the magazine or the internet. Could it be a local promotion? if yes, what Gamma has this promotion?
If it's at every Gamma I will buy the extra doorbell and the unit to control my sunscreen.

Jeroen

P.S. www.Klikaanklikuit.nl also has some products on sale.

Post by **TANE** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 9:10 am

Gamma Utrecht is giving some discounts on older Kaku hardware. most of the products are also in sale on kaku website.
The older Kaku hardware is not using the auto Channel.

Only interesting two products are the extra doorbell receiver and the trafo.
Both are are the same as the current one.

Post by **AshaiRey** » Sat May 09, 2009 8:09 pm

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Kaku Doorbel has a fix device address 8..you can self select the Housecode.
First you have configure RFXcom that you can receive Kaku signals.
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Sadly, I don't get it to work.
The doorswitch is adjusted to O (no number here available) and the door gong units are at O1. If i press the button the gongs ring so that's working. However i want to trigger an event to when the switch is pressed. RFXreciever.exe triggers and tells me to use 8 but that won't trigger a event for me. Any advise here please?

Post by **Edwin** » Fri May 15, 2009 6:20 am

make an event with trigger: x10 command b8 on. You must make a device: chime module b8 at first

Post by **Sooty** » Fri May 15, 2009 4:01 pm

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by AshaiRey
 <blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Kaku Doorbel has a fix device address 8..you can self select the Housecode.
First you have configure RFXcom that you can receive Kaku signals.
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

Sadly, I don't get it to work.
The doorswitch is adjusted to O (no number here available) and the door gong units are at O1. If i press the button the gongs ring so that's working. However i want to trigger an event to when the switch is pressed. RFXreciever.exe triggers and tells me to use 8 but that won't trigger a event for me. Any advise here please?

<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

If you are using the unit with RFXCOM and Homeseer, then you need to enable the ARC protocol on your receiver from the RFXCOM config page and then make sure that in the X10 configuration you have house code "0" set to status only.

Add a new device with house code "0" and device code "8". You can then trigger an event based on activity of device O8.

One thing you need to be aware of (although I don't know if this is the same for the Dutch model) is that when the button is pressed, it sends a series of ON-OFF-ON-OFF signals. You will need to make sure that your event does not trigger multiple times from one press.

Paul..