Reolink Doorbell - receiving Visitor events in Hubitat

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I know this is on the older side, but I got a couple of these yesterday, and bounce the visitor signal through Blue Iris and use Maker API to allow blue iris to send the visitor alert to Hubitat for actioning.

I also used one of these relays to actually trigger my physical chimes.
MHCOZY 2 Channel 5V 12V ZigBee Smart Relay

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Help Me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you are my only hope!

Got one of these doorbells, got Blue Iris configured, got the rvent triggering enabled... now I'm stuck... Stared at this for ages and the light bulb is not coming on above my head!

Is there a walkthrough of this anywhere, so that I can trigger an event in HE when someone presses the doorbell? It's doing my head in now... Thanks!

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  1. Make a new device on your HE that is a virtual contact sensor.
  2. Add the Maker API app and give access to that Virtual contact sensor.
  3. Get the URL from Maker API for remote events to the virtual contact sensor.
  4. Use that URL as the event activity for the triggered event
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Also, Full disclosure, I have since switched to doing a similar thing, but using Home Assistant with the Reolink integration instead of Blue Iris.

I find it to be a little more reliable, at least in my mind, with no scientific testing whatsoever.

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Well, that worked a treat. Many thanks! I know have an instantaneous Ding Dong from the Aoetc 6 chime whenever someone presses either of the Reolink Doorbells!

Next stage is to do this on two meshed hubs, each with an Aeotec Chime 6 but in two remote locations...

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