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🔌General Home Automation => Automating Your House => Topic started by: itcave on January 30, 2009, 01:21:33 PM
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I've heard a lot of people say the doorbell system is great, but the buttons don't stand up to the weather...
Possible solution:
I was thinking about buying a few traditional wired doorbell buttons from my local home repair store. -Installing those on the outside of my house
-running the wires inside
-then opening the 3 button x10 switch and soldering the wires in to it.
This way I could use the normal weather proof buttons outside, and still have a "mainly" wireless doorbell system.
Any thoughts?
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I was thinking about buying a few traditional wired doorbell buttons from my local home repair store. -Installing those on the outside of my house
-running the wires inside -then opening the 3 button x10 switch and soldering the wires in to it.
This way I could use the normal weather proof buttons outside, and still have a "mainly" wireless doorbell system.
Any thoughts?
I think I'd try the PalmPad remote... it has more "juice" to push through the wires.
The previous owner of my older home switched the doorbell to a wireless set that was on it's last leg when I moved in. I replaced them with a couple new GE wireless sets giving me a couple chimes (and an extra button even after all three doors got a button). Because the new setup allows up to seven different sounds... each door has its own sound.
I am now thinking of hacking one of the chime units.... and adding a Powerflash module (PF284). A simple mod of this sort would have limitations... like it would NOT know which doorbell button was pushed. But maybe mixed with some motion sensors and AHP macros... such a system could be made smart enough to record (or automatically display (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkAwQ4KXkHA)) a camera view of the correct door.