fibaro binary sensor alternative

Wimstradamus

Hi guys,

i need the community's help for this one.
I use a rfid keypad hooked up to an Fibaro binary sensor, so i can turn on and off the alarm sensors connected to Homey.
But Homey currently does not support the Fibaro Binary sensor and i looks like its gonna take a while if it is gonna happen at all.

So im looking for a alternative way to hook up my rfid keypad to a type of sensor (min 2 inputs, on/of prefer 3 so i can also add tamper)
or a rfid keypad that i can connect directly to Homey.
Benext or zwave.me (are the same i guess) sell a zwave rfid keypad, only it is not yet supported by both brand Apps for Homey.

The reason i want this and not geolocation because geolocation sucks, it never works and i want people to get access without a smartphone, because the don't have one or i case the battery is dead.

Do you have any suggestions for me to look at ??

caseda

I've had an idea i was already playing around with in my head sometime..

is to convert a normal (fibaro) 230 relay module to work on 12v input (everything inside is 12v or lower)
and it's actually really easy to do this, i blew up half my first try (woops , seems like it can't handle a shortcircuit very well..)
but 1 of 2 relay's did work (yay) on my 12v input voltage.

it is very limited range on input voltage (10 - 15v) but the place i'm using it has a stable 12v so it didn't matter that much to me.
if you have little bit higher voltage it's pretty easy to add a small resistor in series of the input.

if you're interested i can show you how to do it.

it does require (de)soldering

Wimstradamus

thanks for the reply, correct me if i'm wrong but a relay switch does not have any sensor inputs right??

Yesterday i added the binary sensor a generic device, and homy added 1 device, that works and triggers the rfid input.
so now i could add another one for the tamper and a third for a button function (doorbell) 
it is a work around i don't really want because 1 binary should be enough but for now it is the cheapest option, i can almost by 2 binary sensors for the price of 1 relay switch that (in my opinion) does not do what i want (having inputs)

caseda

oh really, it does work as a basic device?
didn't know that, couldn't get it to work normally thanks for this info though

but true about the inputs, it does have inputs but they don't work on "no" voltage..

Wimstradamus

Edit:
Was on my mobile so could edit correctly.
But to clarify: as a basic device Homey adds 1 sensor switch, which reacts to input 1 of the Binary sensor.
 

caseda

yeah, i knew what you meant, but still it is odd that i didn't get any signals from the sensor after adding the basic driver, hoped the next homey update would fix that (there are coming some possible fixes towards this)

i am still trying to reverse engineer the inputs if its possible to have a small voltage on the inputs and trigger on that, but its SO compacted together with a lot of (hidden) trough board holes, glad i didn't have to design this.