RE: Door Bells.

["Malcolm Surgenor" <malcolm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ali

I've mine wired to an X10 Powerflash unit and then HomeSeer captures when
it's pushed and does a number of things but mainly just logs it has
happened.  It's useful when you come back into to go quickly to the right
time on the CCTV recordings...

Details are here

http://ubb.homeseer.com/eve/ubb.x?a=tpc&s=697298074&f=446296174&m=724107104&;
r=466104204#466104204

I think link that should work - i.e. you shouldn't have to log in to see
it.

Malcolm
-----Original Message-----
From: Ali Watkins [mailto:ukha@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 08 June 2004 17:52
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Door Bells.


Hi Chaps.

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!

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!

Does anyone else have their doorbell wired into the pc?

Thanks for your advice.


Alistair


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