Wireless Doorbell
 

Hello,

We have a wireless door bell and live in a coldersack of about 10 houses, of which 4 have wireless doorbells and they all interfear with ours so we get 4 different chimes going off when some one is at the neighbours door. Does any one know how I can get round it??? or is there a wireless doorbell that can't get interfearance???

Thanks

Re: Wireless Doorbell
 

Normally if you take the battery cover off of each unit you will find a jumper, dip switch or similar which allows you to change the frequency. The old wired Doorbells are still the best options however :) (although I have seen a few wireless ones where you can train the receiver to only listen to that transmitter unit but they're quite pricey)

Re: Wireless Doorbell
 

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I got a Friedland one for about £15 and that has dip switches to change the radio frequency.

By the way I have never heard of a cul-de-sac called a coldersack :-)

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Maybe they really all do live in a cold bag?

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<off-topic> Quick french lesson for you... cul = ass, sac = bag, so living in a cul-de-sac is like living in the ass of a bag - apparently </off-topic>

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Pardon my ignorance. This is the first I've heard of wireless doorbells. The concept sounds a little weird to me. Are there any advantages to them, or are they just a nuisance, as described above?

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Wireless!!! saves running wires around the house;)

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we seem to be the only ones who have such a thing, wheras the wireless mouse was a big problem with 'who' controlled it, the doorbell works fine ;)

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So does it run on batteries then?

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You can get ones with batteried door units and a ringer unit that plugs directly into a mains outlet (some even have a mains pass-thru) or a ringer unit that also runs on batteries and can be moved around if needed.

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they are horrible, bad sounds, not loud, and you have to change the door bell battery frequently, if you have a lot of visitors.....

ik

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Doesn't sound very 'green' either... My doorbell works fine. The wires run within the walls, so no mess there. The bell can be clearly heard throughout the house. No need to change/check batteries. Team winning change never. Rearrange as required. :shrug:

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No need to change the batteries in my "knock on the door you lazy git" door bell! :D

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AntiSilence how you will charge them?

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My mate has a wireless doorbell where you can record your own ring tone as such. Everytime he presses his doorbell, as he's pulling into his drive it shouts "I'm home, get the tea on"

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I spent ages swapping frequencies on our doorbell to prevent ours ringing when another house bellpush was activated.... then noticed that the same style bellpush was fitted to ELEVEN other local houses!

So I traded in one model and bought another brand... no problem since.

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Wow he's got long arms!

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The doorbell's wireless, carries it in his car. I thought we'd have been able to deduce that as we are talking about wireless doorbells ;)

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Bet he thinks it's right funny but his missus hates it

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I thought we were talking about the speaker part being wireless, but the button being fixed to the door frame... I didn't even realise you could get ones whereby the button itself was the wireless component.

I can understand the need for the wireless speaker... if you live in a big house, or a house with 3 or 4 storeys, etc... then this is useful. A wireless button, however, just seems to be the ultimate in laziness. :cool: I think I need to get one of these.

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Our house only has a knocker, and we wouldn't be allowed to drill holes through the door jam to run wires to a normal doorbell.
So a stick on wireless doorbell is perfect.
Ours came with a plug in bell and a battery operated bell, so we can have one downstairs and one upstairs, which was handy when I was working nights as I'd normally sleep through delivery men calling otherwise!

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I had the same problem when I bought one of these! It was driving me crazy for about a week until I realised the problem. If you look at the leaflet that came with it you will probably find its on a factory setting of "0000". You need to select your own four digit code and this will sort the problem.