[geeks] Doorbells

[Joshua Boyd]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 08:09:12PM -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> Anyone have any ideas how to pick up the signal from a wireless 
> doorbell?  I'm sick and tired of having a doorbell we just don't HEAR. 
> If I can pick up the signal from the doorbell somehow, I can use it to 
> trigger playing something we WILL hear.
> 
> It seems it's almost impossible to buy a decent doorbell these days.  On 
> the outside, they're all brass and chrome and shiny, but on the inside 
> they're all cheap little synthesized shitboxes with about one chip, 
> playing maybe-4KHz-bandwidth samples at about 3W through a crappy little 
> 1.5" speaker.

One of projects on my list is to make a network enabled, MP3 playing
doorbell.  Although, I was thinking to make mine wired.

This is of little to no help to you though, unless you want to wait
until I get mine done.