Re: Door Bells.

["John Andrews" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have mine wired into an ocelot port expander, but expensive!

Don't go for wireless, just take 5 volts from the PC through the door bell
contact and then to the parralel port - thus when someone presses the door
bell, the parralel port will go high.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ali Watkins" <ukha@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 5:51 PM
Subject: [ukha_d] Door Bells.


> Hi Chaps.
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> There are a few posts in the archives where people have wanted to
> interface their doorbell (wireless) into the PC, and I was thinking of
> doing the same.
> I think the best way to do it will be to use the parallel port (unless
> someone knows of some cheap com port trickery) and just hack the
> standard wireless doorbell receiver to feed into this. I already
pretty
> much have the code I need to interface this into an xAP broadcast and
> grab a shot from the front door webcam, but I can't find a suitable
> doorbell!
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> Just wondering if anyone has (or has seen) a wireless doorbell that
has
> some kind of external latch that pulses when its rung, instead of just
> the speaker.  Ideally this would be a small LED or a light or
something!
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> Does anyone else have their doorbell wired into the pc?
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> Thanks for your advice.
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> Alistair
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