# Make my dumb "gong" smart **URL:** \ **Category:** Tutorials\ **Created:** [July 13, 2020, 8:03pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/make-my-dumb-gong-smart/32358 "2020-07-13T20:03:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![wesley\_w](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/wesley_w/32/10127_2.png) [@wesley\_w](https://community.homey.app/u/wesley_w)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2020, 8:03pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/make-my-dumb-gong-smart/32358/1 "2020-07-13T20:03:57Z")
I have a Nest Hello and quite happy with the basic features within the Nest App. Due to the “works with nest” misery now some month ago, i was unhappy that my Homey did not had contact anymore with all of my Nest stuf (Hello, Thermostat, 2x Camera, 4x Fire / Smoke detector). At the moment i still have a dumb “gong” bell that will sound if someone rings the Nest Hello doorbell. It is quite a standard bell with two sound plates and a coil that bangs a piston to these sound plates. I simply added a Xiaomi Aqara Vibration sensor to one of the sound plates. Now when the someone rings the door Homey will also know and I can start flows to automate stuff. At the moment not very fancy just testing if it never miss a ring. Later i will connect the Face++ App to my " future" Nuki (still waiting for a good deal somewhere) here a some pics not fany but it works. ![20200713_214246](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/a/f/af5af82c7bfa4b209e767c2d969c47c38396785b.jpeg) ![20200713_214302](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/8/0/805cae19b2344645dee9d51abdcfb986a974e0f0.jpeg) [https://homey.app/f/3F\_N9d](https://homey.app/f/3F_N9d) ---
**Author:** ![Otter](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/otter/32/11467_2.png) [@Otter](https://community.homey.app/u/Otter)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 6:34am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/make-my-dumb-gong-smart/32358/2 "2020-07-17T06:34:12Z")
You also could have bought a KaKu acdb-7000b. ---
**Author:** ![wesley\_w](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/wesley_w/32/10127_2.png) [@wesley\_w](https://community.homey.app/u/wesley_w)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2020, 7:52pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/make-my-dumb-gong-smart/32358/3 "2020-07-19T19:52:28Z")
Ohhh … Yep… Would miss the satisfaction to try it the hard way. ---
**Author:** ![Otter](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/otter/32/11467_2.png) [@Otter](https://community.homey.app/u/Otter)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2020, 8:28pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/make-my-dumb-gong-smart/32358/4 "2020-07-19T20:28:52Z")
And ripped up a perfectly good gong 😉 ---
**Author:** ![wesley\_w](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/wesley_w/32/10127_2.png) [@wesley\_w](https://community.homey.app/u/wesley_w)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2020, 9:41am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/make-my-dumb-gong-smart/32358/5 "2020-07-20T09:41:46Z")
And no need for another app ( klikaanklikuit) in my allready memory stuffed Homey ---
**Author:** ![Retrospected](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/retrospected/32/9487_2.png) [@Retrospected](https://community.homey.app/u/Retrospected)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2020, 10:35am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/make-my-dumb-gong-smart/32358/6 "2020-09-09T10:35:48Z")
Nice, very creative… i created mine using a Shelly1 and linking the doorbell as a switch. Shelly will notice when the switch has been pressed and will send an API call to Homey to fire the event. I used the following blog as a reference: > **[Guide | Door Bell smart - Shelly1 per un campanello remoto! | Vincenzocaputo.com](https://www.vincenzocaputo.com/guide/door-bell-smart-shelly1-per-un-campanello-remoto-380)** > > In questa guida mostriamo come domotizzare un semplice campanello grazie all'ausilio di uno Shelly 1 ottenendo una notifica sul nostro smartphone quando qualcuno suona alla porta. Additional (useless?) feature is that i can now remotely ring my doorbell using the Shelly device in Homey