{"id":875,"date":"2020-10-19T20:39:33","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T18:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeedom.sigalou-domotique.fr\/?p=875"},"modified":"2025-05-09T10:49:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T08:49:37","slug":"domotiser-sa-boite-aux-lettres-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sigalou-domotique.fr\/en\/domotiser-sa-boite-aux-lettres-2-0","title":{"rendered":"Domotizing your mailbox 2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The end of \"Domotizing your mailbox\" 1.0<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Like some of you, I had a domotised mailbox that dates back a few years. I had been using the excellent DS12A that had been running at 433Mhz, reliably for years, powered by two easy-to-find AAA batteries. This device allowed, in addition to a magnet (contact), also to recover a dry contact from the opening of the letter slot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This device is now disassembled. To meet a small nostalgic need of more than 8 years of good and loyal services, here are in tribute, the photos of the disassembly. I delete the tutorial from version 1.0 of my blog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n \"Dismantling\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\n \"Dismantling\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\n \"Dismantling\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Principle of 2.0<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Finally, the detection of the opening of the slot is proving increasingly unnecessary, with the factor using in 90% cases at home the opening of the door. There are fewer and fewer letters, sometimes small parcels, often Chinese \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I decided to only detect the front door (factor side) and the back door (house side).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Materials<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

I used what works best at home, two Xiaomi door\/window opening detectors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n \"Xiaomi\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\n \"Xiaomi\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Configuring Sensors in the Xiaomi Plugin<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
\n \"Xiaomi\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Nothing is simpler, we add the two sensors in the Xiaomi plugin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n \"Configuration\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I only use the \u2018open\u2019 info command. When \u2018Open\u2019 is 0, the mailbox is closed, when it is 1, the door is opened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n \"Order\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Use of a Mail Widget<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

I created a small homemade Widget v4. Note that I use a little trick to put my images to myself and not the ones provided by default.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n \"Widget\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Here are the two images used:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n \"Image\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Use of a Virtual Mail<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

In the Virtual plugin, I added a simple virtual one with a mail info command corresponding to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • 0 = No mail<\/li>\n
  • 1 = Mail<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
    \n \"Virtual\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    Use of scenarios<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

    We can do everything in the same scenario, but to simplify, I make one per sensor:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \n \"Mail\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    Triggering scenarios<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    They are triggered when a door is opened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \n \"Trigger\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
    \n \"Trigger\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    Scenario actions<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    When the postman opens the door on his side, it sends a message to all Alexa devices and switches the Virtual \"Mail\" to 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \n \"Action\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    Then, when you open the door on the house side to pick up the mail, it returns the virtual \"the Courier\" to 0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \n \"Action\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    Design info display in the kitchen<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

    To this end, the \"Mail\" command is added to the Design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \n \"Kitchen\n<\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domotique","category-jeedom-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sigalou-domotique.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sigalou-domotique.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sigalou-domotique.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sigalou-domotique.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sigalou-domotique.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sigalou-domotique.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sigalou-domotique.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sigalou-domotique.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sigalou-domotique.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}