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Wireless door chimes?
Voyager2002
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Any suggestions please, for a set of door chimes that work reliably and are not set off by passing cars?
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We bought one from B&M, Eveready I think, approx £10 to control access to retail premises on a busy main road. No problems at all. Previously had more expensive brand names and find they fail fairly quickly due to corrosion in battery compartment so no benefit of paying extra. Ours has quite a few different tunes and volume settings, reasonable range
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I gave up on them. I've had a few over the years but all suffered the same problem of not ringing our bell when our bellpush was used, but ringing it when visitors arrived at other homes. I reverted to a wired bell and have no more problems - unless the battery dies.
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We had one for six years, no problems; replaced it two months ago with a double-bell set (so we could have a bell upstairs whilst I'm WFH) and no problems with that either. Nothing special, just a cheap set from eBay.:heartpuls Mrs Marleyboy :heartpuls
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Cheers for the replies. I am in a place where a wired bell is not really feasible, and have problems similar to those described by TELLIT01 (except that it rings because of passing cars rather than visitors to other properties).
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This one has been in my house for about six months and worked well so far: https://www.toolstation.com/byron-wireless-doorbell-set/p936221
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We have one of these. It's fine, but if the electric goes off the plug-in unit resets and has to be set up again (which is unplug it, plug it in then push the doorbell so not too onerous).
https://www.wilko.com/en-uk/wilko-classic-portableplugin-door-chime/p/0488905
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We have a kinetic doorbell , it has a receiver that plugs in a socket, but the bell push doesn’t use a battery, instead uses kinetic energy, works ok so far, had it quite a bit, ( 3 years?) ...0
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We installed an old fashioned butler bell; you pull a knob to sound the bell. It's pretty simple and works. Failing that I'd put a proper wired bell in - wireless is a pain in the !!!!!!.
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https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07LBPPY7K/ref=ppx_od_dt_b_asin_title_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
We have this one, and even though has many, many ringtones, it has a regular doorbell chime which is the one we use. Had it since June 2019 and still fine.
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Can anyone come up with a reason why a wireless doorbell would go off when cars drive past? Because this is the problem the OP is facing and I'm stumped as to why that would be.0
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