Hey guys,
Just joined these forums and have what I hope to be an easy question. Basically I want to tie into my doorbell switch to trigger an on/off event. I have a USB joystick I dismantled and have code working to monitor the joystick to see if one of the buttons is pushed, from what I can tell it's grounding the button to create the circuit on the joystick. I also have a pair of leads coming from the doorbell switch separate from what goes to/from the 16v ac transformer (standard for wired doorbells). Trouble is, I'm pretty sure because I'm connecting to the same switch as the doorbell transformer I've got 16v AC running all the time through one of my switch leads and momentarily through the other side when the switch is pressed, and that doesn't help me trying to trip this joystick switch. I was thinking a relay of some kind would work ok but hoped there would be a simpler/more elegant solution (though I can't seem to think of one). Any idea how to remove the 16v ac from the line but still keep the functionality of the switch intact?
Tom