Re: Fancy door bells?

["patrick_o_matic" <patrick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Steve Nye" <nye.forums@...>
wrote:
>
> I got two wireless door bells from Wickes set them to the same
channel and
> one door push operates both bell chimes, so I have one upstairs and
one
> downstairs. The second bell push is on the backdoor set to a
different tune
> and it to operates the same set of chimes.
>
> Steve
>
> On 26/02/06, Mike Griffiths <mike@...> wrote:
> >
> > B&Q sell some wireless door bells with extenders
> >

I think a lot depends on how big the house is and what is made of. I
have a friendland (sp?) wireless doorbell, with 4 sounders. Advertised
range is 200m, but this is insufficient to reach to the top (third)
floor in my victorian house reliably, even with the wireless bell push
relocated inside the hall (and connected to a conventional doorbell
button on the front door). In the end, it turned out to be less hassle
to parallel up the doorbell push with asterisk so the phones ring for
a couple of rings with a distinctive ring and caller-id of "front
door". Now if only I could find a sip phone which accepted push http,
I could pop up a picture of the doorcam at the same time too...

Patrick