wireless doorbells

Posted by GregS on October 14, 2009, 11:44 am

wrote:

>Tony wrote:

>> Dennis M wrote:

>>> I'm wondering if anyone has any experience with wireless doorbells. The
>>> last couple of days mine has been ringing a couple of times on its own
>>> (no,
>>> it isn't a pre-Halloween prank). I have some neighbors about 80 feet away
>>> who have an electronic garage door opener, but there's a wooded area
>>> between us and I don't think this could be causing it because it hasn't
>>> happened until now. The main unit inside uses 4 "C" batteries, then the
>>> actual doorbells (one on the front that has a two-tone ring; one on the
>>> back that has a single ring) use some kind of weird tiny batteries. It's
>>> the single ring doorbell that's been acting up, so maybe that's where the
>>> actual problem is.
>>> I'm wondering if wireless doorbells are like smoke detectors, in that
>>> they'll start ringing out of the blue when their batteries start to go
>>> low.
>>> The batteries have been in the main unit for about two years now, also
>>> about the same for the actual doorbells.

>>
>>
>> Change the code. Someone close by got a new one and like you left it at
>> the factory settings.

>That was about what I was going to recommend. I had a wireless for a
>few years, but gave up. I would change the code and it would work
>for a while, then I would start getting it ringing in the middle of
>the night again. I finally gave up and put in a new wired one.
>Bill

I had one at the old house, except I wired it to the mailbox.

It worked great. I did it mostly for my father.
My father passed, and I was remodling the house.
The was a couple times I did hear the chimes go
off, thinking abut the problem of interference.
One day I get the transmitter and look outside
and pressed the button. Sure enough a neighbor up the street
came out the front door. A good while later
I was at the neighbors house and talking led to the doorbell.
She told be for a year or two they heard the doorbell go off
almost every day and would look outside. Every time
the mailman would be comming up the street and they would wait
for their mail. I explained everything and it was funny.

greg

Posted by amdx on October 14, 2009, 2:19 pm

> I'm wondering if anyone has any experience with wireless doorbells. The
> last couple of days mine has been ringing a couple of times on its own
> (no,
> it isn't a pre-Halloween prank). I have some neighbors about 80 feet away
> who have an electronic garage door opener, but there's a wooded area
> between us and I don't think this could be causing it because it hasn't
> happened until now. The main unit inside uses 4 "C" batteries, then the
> actual doorbells (one on the front that has a two-tone ring; one on the
> back that has a single ring) use some kind of weird tiny batteries. It's
> the single ring doorbell that's been acting up, so maybe that's where the
> actual problem is.

First, does anybody else hear the ringing?
Mike :-)

Posted by Dennis M on October 15, 2009, 3:42 pm

>> I'm wondering if anyone has any experience with wireless doorbells. The
>> last couple of days mine has been ringing a couple of times on its own
>> (no,
>> it isn't a pre-Halloween prank). I have some neighbors about 80 feet away
>> who have an electronic garage door opener, but there's a wooded area
>> between us and I don't think this could be causing it because it hasn't
>> happened until now. The main unit inside uses 4 "C" batteries, then the
>> actual doorbells (one on the front that has a two-tone ring; one on the
>> back that has a single ring) use some kind of weird tiny batteries. It's
>> the single ring doorbell that's been acting up, so maybe that's where the
>> actual problem is.

> First, does anybody else hear the ringing?
> Mike :-)

Good question, I may need to crosspost to alt.psychology.psychoanalysis. ;)

Posted by amdx on October 16, 2009, 3:39 pm

>>> I'm wondering if anyone has any experience with wireless doorbells. The
>>> last couple of days mine has been ringing a couple of times on its own
>>> (no,
>>> it isn't a pre-Halloween prank). I have some neighbors about 80 feet
>>> away
>>> who have an electronic garage door opener, but there's a wooded area
>>> between us and I don't think this could be causing it because it hasn't
>>> happened until now. The main unit inside uses 4 "C" batteries, then the
>>> actual doorbells (one on the front that has a two-tone ring; one on the
>>> back that has a single ring) use some kind of weird tiny batteries. It's
>>> the single ring doorbell that's been acting up, so maybe that's where
>>> the
>>> actual problem is.

>> First, does anybody else hear the ringing?
>> Mike :-)

> Good question, I may need to crosspost to alt.psychology.psychoanalysis.
> ;)

I had to see if alt.psychology.psychoanalysis was real. It could be a lot
fun, to bad it's
not a busier newsgroup. Light on spam though!

Posted by Jeff Liebermann on October 14, 2009, 10:29 pm

On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:22:09 -0500, dennism3@dennism3.invalid (Dennis
M) wrote:
(...)

"Turning a Heath / Zenith Wireless Doorbell into a Remote Control
Relay"

<http://www.hackersbench.com/Projects/ding-dong/main.html>

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