Re[2]: Finger print recognition doorbell - does it exist?

["Pete Shew" <ukha_d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Pete Shew wrote:
>
>> >Indeed. Wouldn't it be far easier and more useful to link a
doorbell to
>> >a video camera and have an image pop up on your TV.
>>
>> That assumes that you are in a room with a TV and it is turned on.
>
>
>This is UKHA - surely you have a screen of some sort in every orrifice
>of your home, and getting one to turn on at the appropriate moment is
>meer child's play, no? :-)

Err, I am hardly worthy to lick the feet of the HAers here. The extent of
my automation is the PBX (hooked to the doorbell as you can't hear the
actual  bell more than a couple of rooms away from the door). I'm working
on the heating at the moment. The buggers who refurbished this place didn't
even lay any coax or phone wires behind the dry lining, and all the
electrics are in the dry lining or under 18mm chipboard :-(

>> I have a similar problem. The only unwanted doorbell pushes I get
are
>> little tykes on their way past. I'm thinking of a presence
detector
>> and a delay. If they're still there a second later, the bell can
ring.
>
>
>Be prepared for multiple pushes, and the caller knocking loudly on the
>door anyway...
>
>Jim

One second delay? It usually takes me a lot longer than that to get to the
door anyway.

Pete