DoorBird Connect ThinKnx System User Guide
- June 6, 2024
- DoorBird
Table of Contents
DoorBird Connect thinking
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
DoorBird IP Video Door Station D10x/D11x/D20x/D21x-Series or DoorBird IP
Upgrade D301A
ThinKnx Envision Touch Server or ThinKnx Micro/Micro Z-Wave/Compact Server
with client app
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
The following guide will take you through the steps of setting up a DoorBird
IP Video Door Station in connection with a thinking Server. The following
examples make use of a ThinKnx Envision 7 Touch Server, though the principal
setup will be the same for all ThinKnx Server models.
Note : Setting up a ThinKnx Server with a DoorBird IP Video Door Station
requires the proper licenses installed on the corresponding ThinKnx Server. To
review currently active licenses on the ThinKnx Server, proceed with the
following steps:
1. Access HTTP://
2. log in as a service user.
3. Go to Server → Status to find the enabled licenses associated with the
ThinKnx Server.
FIRMWARE INFORMATION
This manual was tested using the following firmware versions:
DoorBird IP Video Door Station: 000122 thinking Touch Server: 1.2.3
SETTING UP VOIP & DOORCOM
Important: Voip PBX & Doorcom requires a “Sip PBX” license installed on the
ThinKnx Service in question. Voip PBX & Doorcom can be configured in ThinKnx
UP Configurator without such license present, but no connection between
oorBird IP Video Door Station and ThinKnx Server will be possible.
SETTING UP IN THINKNX UP CONFIGURATOR
1. Configuring the ThinKnx Server for SIP:
1.1. In the “System” tab, right-click on the System object and click on “Add
object”. In the following menu select “Internal Services → Voip PBX”.
1.2. Click on the newly created Voip PBX object in the “System” tree to view
its settings in the property grid.
1.3. Select the “Accounts PBX” entry, and bring up its properties by clicking
on “…”.
1.4. In the following window, add at least one new PBX account to be used for
the DoorBird IP Video
Door Station. Give it an “Extension” number and password to enable it. Click
“Ok”.
1.5. Bring up the “Ring groups” editor in the same manner as the “Accounts PBX” editor. Here, add at least one ring group by clicking the “Add” button and add at least one of the accounts created in the previous step to the “Accounts PBX” collection. Take note of the “Ring Group Number” displayed in the right panel. This number will be required for the SIP settings of the DoorBird IP Video Door Station.
1.6. Bring up the “Intercom Device” editor, same as with “Accounts PBX” and “Ring groups”. Add an intercom device by clicking the “Add” button and make sure “Device type” reads “Generic IP Doorstation”. Take note of the “Username PBX”-entry: the DoorBird IP Video Door Station will use this number to connect to the ThinKnx Server. Click “Ok”.
Configuring the System Object
1.1. In the System Tab, click on the “System” object, and inside the property
grid below, in the “Users and Groups” entry, click on “Click to edit…”.
1.2. In the editor that pops up, make sure at least one group and user exists.
Change the following group settings to read as follows:
SIP Client: Enabled
Registration: Enabled
System PBX: Enabled
And in the “User PBX” entry select the account that was created during Voip
PBX setup.
Adding an Intercom Object
Interacting with a call from the DoorBird IP Video Door Station requires an
intercom interface object.
1.1. In the “Interface” tab, right-click on a Page object, click “Add object”
and select “Intercom”. ****1.2. Click on the intercom object, either in the
main window or in the “Interface” Tab to bring up its properties in the
property grid.
1.3. Set the “System PBX” entry to “Enabled”. This will change the following
entry to “Intercom device PBX”. Set this to the intercom object that was
created previously.
SETTING UP THE DOORBIRD IP VIDEO DOOR STATION (MOBILE APP)
For the DoorBird IP Video Door Station to be properly able to communicate with
the ThinKnx server, the DoorBird device’s SIP settings must be set up
accordingly.
1. Open the DoorBird App and log into the administration area under “Settings
→ Administration” using the administrator user and password credentials from
the “DIGITAL PASSPORT” document that was shipped with your DoorBird IP Video
Door Station.
2. Choose “SIP Settings” from the menu and activate the “SIP active” switch.
3. Enter the local IP address of the ThinKnx Server into the “SIP Proxy”
field. Set both “SIP User” and “SIP Password” to the intercom number that was
shown in the ThinKnx UP Configurator Intercom settings. This is usually the
number 901. 4. Go back to the main administration area and tap on “SIP Calls”,
then tap “Add”.
5. In the subsequent screen, enter an arbitrary name in the “Name” field,
e.g. “thinking”. For the IP address, enter [email protected] where 9001 is the
“Ring Group” number previously determined by the ThinKnx UP Configurator and
x.x.x.x represents the local IP address of the ThinKnx Server in question.
For calls from the DoorBird IP Video Door Station to be forwarded to the
ThinKnx Server, a schedule for the doorbell needs to be properly set up.
Depending on the model of the DoorBird Door Station, choose one of the
following options:
A) For all devices with a single door chime (e.g. D10x, D20x, D2101V, etc.)
find the settings in question under “Schedule for doorbell”. From this screen,
tap the bell symbol in the upper left corner, choose “SIP call” and fill out
the schedule per your requirements.
B) For all devices with multiple door chimes (e.g. D2102V, D2103V, etc.) find
the settings in question in the administration area under “Key Configuration”
from the settings menu. Select the appropriate button and tap “Schedule for
actions”. From this screen, tap the bell symbol in the upper left corner,
choose “SIP call” and fill out the schedule per your requirements.
C) For all devices outfitted with a keypad (e.g. D21DKV) find the settings in
question in the administration area under “Keypad” in the settings menu.
Select the appropriate key
combination and go to “Schedule for actions”. From this screen, tap the bell
symbol in the upper left corner, choose “SIP call” and fill out the schedule
per your requirements.
Hint: by tapping the button in the upper right corner it is possible to fill
or empty the entire schedule.
6. Return to the main administration area and save the settings. Wait for
about five minutes for the new settings to take place.
CONTROLLING LIGHT AND DOOR RELAY VIA GETTING REQUEST
Controlling the built-in light and door relay of the DoorBird IP Video Door
Station via ThinKnx Server requires the use of the “Ethernet Gateway” object
in the ThinKnx UP Configurator.
The following steps need to be taken within ThinKnx UP Configurator:
- In the “System” tab, right-click on the “System” object, click on “Add object” and from the following list of objects select the “Ethernet Gateway” object from the “Reports & Gateways” section.
- In the “Interface” tab, right-click on a page, go to “Add object” and from the list of objects select “Generic command”.
- Click on the newly created generic button and from the property grid, select “Command” and bring up its settings by clicking “…”.
- From the “Reports & Gateways” tree, twice select the “Ethernet Gateway” by clicking the “+” symbol beside it.
- From the list of options select “Make an HTTP GET call to a specified URL with username and password”.
- For the URL, enter the following: https://x.x.x.x/bha-api/open-door.cgi where x.x.x.x needs to be replaced by the IP address of the DoorBird IP Video Door Station.
- For Username and Password enter the App User and App Password belonging to the DoorBird IP Video Door Station
- Hit “Ok” to close the editor. Repeat steps 2. to 8. for the light button, replacing the URL In step 6. by the following URL: HTTP s ://x.x.x.x/bha-api/light-on.cgi Again replacing x.x.x.x with the IP address of the DoorBird device.
- Optionally select appropriate images for the buttons by clicking their respective “Custom images” entries in the properties grid.
SETTING UP VIDEO INSIDE THINKNX UP CONFIGURATOR
Note: The following does not apply to DoorBird IP Upgrade D301A.
To be able to see images coming from the camera of the DoorBird IP Video Door
Station, a camera object needs to be added within ThinKnx UP Configurator.
1. Add a camera object by right-clicking either in the main interface area or
on a page object in the “Interface” tab and select “Camera” from the “Add
object” menu.
2. Select the newly created camera object to bring up its properties in the
property grid.
3. Set the properties of the camera object to the following settings: Type:
Generic Camera
Use RTSP: Disabled
Image path: BHA-API/image.CGI
Use local connection: Enabled
Local address:
Local port: 80
Username:
Password:
4. Optional: to test the settings, click on the triangle button at the top
bar of the video object. If everything is set up correctly and the computer
you are running ThinKnx UP Configurator on is connected to the same network
as the DoorBird IP Video Door Station, a live video image will appear in the
video object.
For questions and problems regarding the ThinKnx Server please contact the
manufacturer online: http://www.thinknx.com/v3/en/contacts.html
For questions and problems regarding our devices (DoorBird IP Video Door
Station) please use the contact form to get In touch with our technical
support: https://www.doorbird.com/contact
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