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Term: | Door-Intercom | Wiki | Freetz | IPPF | whmf | AVM | Web |
Short for: | Door Intercommunication Device | ||||||
Location: | Lexicon >> Telephony-Terms | ||||||
Weblinks: | Wikipedia.int - Wikipedia.de | ||||||
Description: | Intercom for asking who was ringing and for opening the door |
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Details
An Door-Intercom is an Intercom for asking who was ringing at the door and for opening the door in remote.
Minimalistic
A minimalistic system consists of:
- The outdoor station with a microphone, a speaker and a button to ring
- The Electric-Strike mounted at the door for opening it
- An indoor telephone alike device with a button to open the door
- A Doorbell which may be a part of the indoor telephone
- A power supply unit, typically with 2 separate outputs for communication and Doorbell + Electric-Strike
Communication typically works like a Telephone and requires 2 wires. 2 further wires (sometimes 3) are requred
for the Doorbell and the Electric-Strike.
PBX-Connected
Advanced systems act like a Telephone and could be connected to an existing PBX system. The ringing button triggers the
dialling of a phone number, the Doorbell is replaced by the ringing target Telephones. The Electric-Strike is activated by
a Relay which is triggered by dialling some DTMF tone on the target Telephone.
Insecure systems (most of them) place the Relay inside the outdoor station. A housebreaker can easily open it, defeat the
Relay, and open the door with the Electric-Strike. Secure systems keep all wires to the Electric-Strike indoor, but require a
separate device for the Relay.
There are adapter devices which could connect an existing Minimalistic Door-Intercom to an existing PBX system, like the
Auerswald TSA-a/b, which uses an existing power supply unit and has inputs for 2 ringing buttons. It contains 2 Relays, one is
used for the Electric-Strike, the other could either switch the existing Doorbell as a secondary bell, or drive an external Relay
to switch on light.
Today a large scale of standalone PBX connected Door-Intercoms exist, either connected analog, by DECT or ISDN, or using
VoIP over Ethernet or WLAN. IP based solutions are also availlable with integrated IP-Camera.
Many of these systems introduce new security risks, some systems even add privacy leaks by Dialling-Home to the Vendor.
FRITZ!OS
Door-Intercom
Recent FRITZ!OS can explicitely add a Door-Intercom as a Telephony device:
Telephony >> Telephony-Devices >> Configure New Device >> Door intercom system
There you can choose between:
FON1 / FON2 - Door intercom system with a/b interface
LAN / Wi-Fi - IP outdoor intercom system
ISDN and DECT solutions are not explicitely configurable as a Door-Intercom (fw 7.29):
Telephony >> Telephony-Devices >> Configure New Device >> ISDN telephone system
Telephony >> Telephony-Devices >> Configure New Device >> Telephone >> Cordless (DECT) telephone
At least a Telegärtner DECT station is automatically detected as a Door-Intercom.
The disadvantage of not being configurable as a Door-Intercom are:
- No list of Doorbells, target Telephone routing and Ringtones
- No configurable character sequence for door opener
- No dedicated URL for the Live-Image
See also these related AVM pages:
- Setting up an IP door intercom system in the FRITZ!Box - knowledge document
- Setting up an analog door intercom system in the FRITZ!Box - knowledge document
- Setting up a DECT door intercom system in the FRITZ!Box - knowledge document
- Setting up an ISDN door intercom system in the FRITZ!Box - knowledge document
IP-Camera
If a Telephony device is configured as a Door-Intercom it can configure a Live Image URL in its properties:
Telephony >> Telephony-Devices >> My Door intercom system >> Edit >> Live Image
To configure a generic IP-Camera for the FRITZ!Fon go to:
Telephony >> Telephony-Devices >> Live Image (tab) >> Add New Live Image
This could also be configured in the FRITZ!Fon menu, but it's a hassle to type an URL using the numerical keys.
See also these related AVM pages:
- FRITZ!Box and live images: keep an eye on your home from anywhere - guide
- Setting up live images from an IP camera for FRITZ!Fon - knowledge document
- Türsprechanlage mit Kamera an FRITZ!Box anschließen - FRITZ! Talk 25 Video (german)
Internals
Live Images URLs are configured in the configd ui-module which is maintained by libconfigd.so:
root@fritz2:/var/mod/root# ctlmgr_ctl u configd configd:settings/ or configd:status/ <snip> LiveImage0/ UID=0 Name=axis1 URL=http://axis1/axis-cgi/jpg/image.cgi?resolution=320x240&compression=1 Refresh=0 Type=0 <snip>
The handling of Live images is performed by dect_manager:
root@fritz:$ strings /usr/bin/dect_manager | grep _live_image_ | [sort]] dmgt_avm_adjust_live_image_account dmgt_avm_cb_live_image_refresh_timer dmgt_avm_display_live_image_auto_orientation dmgt_avm_get_live_image_edit dmgt_avm_get_live_image_move dmgt_avm_get_live_image_option dmgt_avm_get_live_image_options_size dmgt_avm_get_live_image_right_button_index dmgt_avm_handle_center_left_for_live_image_show dmgt_avm_handle_center_right_for_live_image_show dmgt_avm_map_to_menu_live_image_option dmgt_avm_set_cur_live_image_uids dmgt_avm_start_live_image_refresh_timer dmgt_avm_stop_live_image_refresh_timer dmgt_avm_toggle_live_image_auto_orientation dmgt_manage_get_live_image_config dmgt_manage_get_live_image_url dmgt_manage_write_live_image_config
The handling of Door-Intercom images is also performed by dect_manager:
dmgt_avm_cleanup_doorline_image_conversion dmgt_avm_convert_doorline_image dmgt_avm_doorline_image_conversion_closed dmgt_avm_doorline_image_conversion_read dmgt_avm_exec_doorline_image_conversion dmgt_avm_handle_doorline_image_resolved dmgt_avm_next_doorline_image_conversion dmgt_avm_remove_doorline_image_file dmgt_avm_stop_doorline_image_dimm dmgt_avm_wget_doorline_image dmgt_manage_alloc_doorline_image_conversion dmgt_manage_find_active_doorline_image_conversion dmgt_manage_find_doorline_image_conversion /usr/bin/dect_doorline_image_conversion.sh file://%s /var/tmp/dmgr_images/doorline/%s none %u %u
Conversion of the images is performed by dect_doorline_image_conversion.sh.