Wireless doorbells? Any "better" brands or frequencies?

How many car remotes open another car?

Whether this is indeed bollox is an interesting point, but we do actually have a cheapo wireless weather station, so it is possible that cheapo WS with cheapo bell might be the issue.

Bell was ebay, so that will be written off to experience.

Problem is, SWMBO likes a "proper" bell ringing, which most of the expensive other makes don't do, preferring some 90's style synthesised tune or other such dong-ing.

Anyway, for whatever reason, no matter which frequency I try, it still rings randomly, so sommut is wrong.

Will try an alternative brand more expensive unit taking advantage of distance selling regs and see what happens.

Matt

I dunno

But all car remotes have to be as different as possible, so there has to be some kind of secret code to stop it happening

I doubt that doorbells are "paired", I would guess that any bell push will operate any chime, so there can't be the same level of checking that the signal really has come from your bell push

BICBW

tim

The bell pushes I've played with have had 4 bit codes, whereas car keyfobs have many more bits and a way to regularly alter the code without user input.

You would think so. Nevertheless, in this household, a Nissan key fob operated a plug-in socket remotely. Fortunately the socket remote has several channels.

Chris

Correct - even although they operate on the same frequency.

Which just means they are badly made.

Even the cheapo Argos chimes are paired with the bell push. Been there, tested that :-)

That probably means the plug in socket electronics are crap. Unless, of course, the socket remote also opened the car.

Sounds about right.

I was initially puzzled about Xmas lights turning off unexpectedly just as my partner arrived home, then realised that it was happening as her car was locked.

No, I couldn't unlock the car accidentally ;-)

Chris

SX15i cheapo from ebay. Both displayed the same problem - OK to set up, wo rk fine, and then start randomly ringing themselves within an hour of being set up.

iods of zero activity, etc etc.

uses' bells (I have tried every one of the 16 different frequencies on offe r), I can only presume there is "something" in my house (or a neighbours) t hat is triggering the ring - perhaps the heating system, or just a switch o r something else generating the right sort of rf signal to cause a problem.

tions for wiring from the front door to a sensible location for a bell, and we've just decorated so I don't want bell wire all over the place.

be so subject to this sort of interference?

Hi there, it's the frequency, I just moved and mine was ringing when no one pressed it and guess what, so was my next door neighbours! Lol! Because th ey both work off the same frequency so press one and they all go off.

Another old post, but surely they must have improved this issue by now?

Brian

I have a Friedland Evo 433MHz - no trouble in 5 years, original batteries too!

No nearby radio amateurs on 70cm, then?

If not presented with both the right frequency and the correct code, they should not ring. You get what you pay for.

I recently got:

Friedland 200m D914 Libra Plus Wirefree Portable Chime and Push

for my somewhat hearing-challenged mother. Much better than I expected and you can get a dongle so an incoming phone call also makes it sound (with a different effect).

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Except that equipment like that can be overloaded and driven to places you don't want it to go like TETRA Airwave transmitters nearby..

So maybe one of these:

SILVERCREST Wireless Doorbell £6.99*Each

Lidl. Tomorrow.

Most people around here struggle with their household tech - I doubt it ;->

Just setting up to have the bell push just ring all the phones in the house...