Hi all, I have a not-so-smart doorbell connected to the homey pro. That connection works fine, also with Sonos. Now I would like the Homey to ‘ring the bell’ on a Homepod. Does anyone know a way to do that? Thanks, Niels

This → :mag: can sometimes be very helpful… :wink: [image] [HOW TO] HomePod announcements from Homey Tutorials This is an update to my earlier post [TUTORIAL] Whole house audio and text to speech announcements to HomePod Mini and other AirPlay speakers where I used a Mac …

Thanks, i did :mag: quite a bit! Unfortenately, I do not understand the explanation in the link which you send. I have some more reading to do and I am hoping for an easier solution :crazy_face:

For just ringing a doorbell on a HomePod, this might be easier: using either the built in HomeKit experiment or the HomeKitty app on Homey , publish your not smart doorbell device to HomeKit and add it in the apple home app search Apple Music or the internet for a doorbell chime sound (there are l…

Thx. Unfortunately, homekitty does not support the doorbel (klikaanklikuit), so this trick does not work. Edit: you gave me an idea, i used a virtual device (doorbel - virtual device - homekitty - ios automation). I need to play a bit with it, as there was some delay.

A bit klunky but you could just add a virtual device in homekitty to use for the HomeKit part and then add flows on Homey to control that device when you operate the doorbell device

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DirkG April 8, 2023, 1:27pm 2

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