[geeks] Doorbells

[Phil Stracchino]

Jonathan Katz wrote:
> 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.

I'd do that if the existing doorbell was hardwired.  It isn't; it's a 
self-contained POS that plugs into an electric outlet, as described above.



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