Trivial problem - wireless bell push - 1byOne

Clean all finger grease from the CR2032 before inserting it into the holder.

Rub a lead pencil over the holder’s contacts.

Do the above, then drill a hole through the door frame and fit a cheapo wired battery doorbell. Save you years of faffing. ;-)

Tim

These items include the concept of "pairing", implying Bluetooth.

I would want to understand the operating principle of the item in question, and how many "moving parts" it has, which can break.

It could be, that the Bell Push is sending a signal at

Paul

Almost certainly a poor contact. We have a similar setup with a Honeywell (Friedland), but in this case we have two receivers - one mains powered and one battery powered. They either both work or both fail. We've had ours about 7 years, and the bell push is consistently unreliable! It's the one here:

Still, it's a lot better than the el-cheapo one we originally had, in which the receiver ate AA batteries, and was a lot less sensitive than the Honeywell receivers.

I got so fed up with our unreliable wireless doorbells that I bit the bullet and did a hard wired one. (the house is large and has thick-ish walls).

Bell pushes are a fascinating topic. Almost as much fun as Internet Radio :-)

There is talk here, that importing these may be made illegal (as car thieves are using them, and isn't that the best reason???). This is one way to work at 2.4GHz.

There's no guarantee that for a given modulation scheme, an SDR can work with it. Some modulation schemes, need a better device than a hackrf one. The feature the hackrf one has, is the ability to work from 0-6GHz or so for the RF carrier. Which is better for some of the computer related stuff. Things like GNURadio make an SDR run. Some RF things in our daily lives, the bandwidth is wide enough, you need an SDR that costs about 10^4.

The RTLSDR, they can be cheap enough at times, to be worthwhile as a toy. And especially if the thing you're working on, is at a lower frequency.

Paul

I'd heard tales of FlipperZero devices being impounded at customs, have they seen sense yet?

The bell push lights up briefly when it acknowledges a button push. So I know that it is the bell push which isn't working.

Probably some sort of deep clean is called for.

I do have some contact cleaner which might help (or not).

Cheers

Dave R

FWIW I have had good success with the Qinetic range of doorbells and other wireless controllers (sold via TLC). They are powered by the mechanical force used to press the button! As a result the unit is batteryless and can be sealed. The 'bell' is a small unit that plugs in the mains and is paired with the pushbutton.

They also do mains switching devices which I have used for outdoor lights. Recommended.