[geeks] Doorbells

[Jonathan Katz]

On 3/19/08, Phil Stracchino <alaric at metrocast.net> wrote:
> Anyone have any ideas how to pick up the signal from a wireless
>  doorbell?  I'm sick and tired of having a doorbell we just don't HEAR.
>  If I can pick up the signal from the doorbell somehow, I can use it to
>  trigger playing something we WILL hear.
>
>  It seems it's almost impossible to buy a decent doorbell these days.  On
>  the outside, they're all brass and chrome and shiny, but on the inside
>  they're all cheap little synthesized shitboxes with about one chip,
>  playing maybe-4KHz-bandwidth samples at about 3W through a crappy little
>  1.5" speaker.

Phil, we have a wireless doorbell. I'd just look at hooking into the
existing receiver's chime mechanism and use that to trigger a relay
for another LOUD device.