Re: Re: Fancy door bells?

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How did you get it to do that?

> In our Georgian house, the wireless doorbell didn't work well at all.
> It hardly made it into the hall! OK, I know some are better than
> others, but we have three floors and an annex at the back. I know you
> don't want this solution, but I needed a PBX anyway so I just got it
> to ring a "doorbell" cadence on most of the phones. This has
been
> almost the most useful use of the PBX.
>
> Pete
>
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> On 27/02/2006 at 10:45 patrick_o_matic wrote:
>
> >--- 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