TOT wireless doorbells

I went round to a neighbours yesterday to help with his PC. He has one
of those remote wireless (I assume) doorbells. As it happend he was
not in, but *his* next door neighbour poked her head out of her front
door. Turns out they have one as well.

She told me that her bell often sounds when his button is pushed but
"not my tune and not his either" she added "sometimes mine sounds with
my tune but there is nobody there".

Anyone?
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Dave Saville

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Dave Saville wrote:
I went round to a neighbours yesterday to help with his PC. He has one
of those remote wireless (I assume) doorbells. As it happend he was
not in, but *his* next door neighbour poked her head out of her front
door. Turns out they have one as well.

She told me that her bell often sounds when his button is pushed but
"not my tune and not his either" she added "sometimes mine sounds with
my tune but there is nobody there".

Anyone?

Such bells often have different codes and associated tones so you can
distinguish between callers to the front door and the tradesman's entrance
(for example)... I think a bit of dip switch tweaking is called for (or
however it's set up on that model).

I've often considered building a high power device which emits a rapid
series of all known bell codes so I can conduct drive-by "bellings" in an
updated version of the old childhood game...

Pyriform wrote:
I've often considered building a high power device which emits a rapid
series of all known bell codes so I can conduct drive-by "bellings" in an
updated version of the old childhood game...


same here ;-)

And, as a kid I never got the chance to use a universal remote outside
Dixons shop windows to set all the TV volume levels to 11

Some peeps here will have done, I bet ;-)

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Be a little bit careful as lots of elderly people have radio remote on off
socket switches these days. I can imagine the chaos if all sorts of
appliances started to come on and off for no reason.

As for doorbells, the cheaper ones seem to have no way to change the codes
and I guess there are only a few different ones so its a bit of a lottery
what actually happens if several are about near one another!

Brian

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Dave Saville wrote:
I went round to a neighbours yesterday to help with his PC. He has one
of those remote wireless (I assume) doorbells. As it happend he was
not in, but *his* next door neighbour poked her head out of her front
door. Turns out they have one as well.

She told me that her bell often sounds when his button is pushed but
"not my tune and not his either" she added "sometimes mine sounds with
my tune but there is nobody there".

Anyone?

Such bells often have different codes and associated tones so you can
distinguish between callers to the front door and the tradesman's entrance
(for example)... I think a bit of dip switch tweaking is called for (or
however it's set up on that model).

I've often considered building a high power device which emits a rapid
series of all known bell codes so I can conduct drive-by "bellings" in an
updated version of the old childhood game...

In article , lid says...
Pyriform wrote:
I've often considered building a high power device which emits a rapid
series of all known bell codes so I can conduct drive-by "bellings" in an
updated version of the old childhood game...


same here ;-)

And, as a kid I never got the chance to use a universal remote outside
Dixons shop windows to set all the TV volume levels to 11

Some peeps here will have done, I bet ;-)

Not Dixons but I did outside a branch of the old TV rental company Granada
:-)

In message [email protected],
Dave Saville Proclaimed from the tallest tower:

I went round to a neighbours yesterday to help with his PC. He has one
of those remote wireless (I assume) doorbells. As it happend he was
not in, but *his* next door neighbour poked her head out of her front
door. Turns out they have one as well.

She told me that her bell often sounds when his button is pushed but
"not my tune and not his either" she added "sometimes mine sounds with
my tune but there is nobody there".

Anyone?

We have one of those. A couple of times over the last 6 months or so, our
doorbell has rung(but not its normal 'tune') at something like 4am. A bleary
glance out of the window has shown no-one outside our door, no sign in fact
of anyone in the street at all... Spooky!! :-)

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Chris.
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On Fri, 30 May 2008 09:22:59 GMT, "Brian Gaff"
wrote:

Be a little bit careful as lots of elderly people have radio remote on off
socket switches these days. I can imagine the chaos if all sorts of
appliances started to come on and off for no reason.

The handsets are coded so that's unlikely.

The problem I have with these devices is that they appear
to use some sort of capacitive backup in the socket to
remember the handset code. These handle a power-cut for a
few minutes but following a long power cut all the sockets
need to be re-taught their handset code.

Nick.

Nick Austin wrote:
On Fri, 30 May 2008 09:22:59 GMT, "Brian Gaff"
wrote:

Be a little bit careful as lots of elderly people have radio remote
on off socket switches these days. I can imagine the chaos if all
sorts of appliances started to come on and off for no reason.

The handsets are coded so that's unlikely.

The problem I have with these devices is that they appear
to use some sort of capacitive backup in the socket to
remember the handset code. These handle a power-cut for a
few minutes but following a long power cut all the sockets
need to be re-taught their handset code.

The older ones I used had switches to set the codes, and the new ones I've
started using (from B&Q's "HomeEasy" range) have a registration procedure
between transmitters and receivers, the results of which are presumably
stored in flash memory. I haven't found them forgetting what to do even
after extended periods without power.

ChrisM wrote:
In message [email protected],
Dave Saville Proclaimed from the tallest
tower:
I went round to a neighbours yesterday to help with his PC. He has
one of those remote wireless (I assume) doorbells. As it happend he
was not in, but *his* next door neighbour poked her head out of her
front door. Turns out they have one as well.

She told me that her bell often sounds when his button is pushed but
"not my tune and not his either" she added "sometimes mine sounds
with my tune but there is nobody there".

Anyone?

We have one of those. A couple of times over the last 6 months or so,
our doorbell has rung(but not its normal 'tune') at something like
4am. A bleary glance out of the window has shown no-one outside our
door, no sign in fact of anyone in the street at all... Spooky!! :-)

Probably one of my late night test runs...

On 30 May, 08:58, "Pyriform" wrote:
Dave Saville wrote:
I went round to a neighbours yesterday to help with his PC. He has one
of those remote wireless (I assume) doorbells. As it happend he was
not in, but *his* next door neighbour poked her head out of her front
door. Turns out they have one as well.

She told me that her bell often sounds when his button is pushed but
"not my tune and not his either" she added "sometimes mine sounds with
my tune but there is nobody there".

Anyone?

Such bells often have different codes and associated tones so you can
distinguish between callers to the front door and the tradesman's entrance
(for example)... I think a bit of dip switch tweaking is called for (or
however it's set up on that model).

I've often considered building a high power device which emits a rapid
series of all known bell codes so I can conduct drive-by "bellings" in an
updated version of the old childhood game...

It would be interesting to see how many Garage doors start flapping up
and down too.