Comments on: Getting the doorbell online

By: Tweeting Doorbell | The Jumps

Tweeting Doorbell | The Jumps — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 21:40:45 +0000

[...] wireless doorbell is a strikingly simple project, many people have done it before, and done better than i could – get a wireless doorbell from your local cheap wireless [...]

By: nick

nick — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:55:52 +0000

Hi Dane,

not all four pins were tied to input pins on the arduino; two were for power (ground/3.3v) and then trial and error revealed which of the other two was the more useful one to use to detect the signal. That meant only one input pin was ultimately needed for this.

Nick

By: DANE

DANE — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:57:57 +0000

Hoping to do the same with a wireless driveway alert. You say you hooked up all four pins to the Arduino? I don’t have one yet and was hoping not to tie up four input pins with one device…is this necessary?

Thanks

By: Hacking the doorbell – Roo Reynolds

Hacking the doorbell – Roo Reynolds — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 23:29:27 +0000

[...] straight into the wall. I once again find myself attempting to keep up with Nick. Having seen his doorbell project I knew exactly what I had to do: it was time to hook my doorbell up to an Arduino board and put it [...]

By: Insteon

Insteon — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:45:52 +0000

Nice use of a basic wireless doorbell to accomplish this! I had to work harder than I thought I would to get my basic 120v doorbell to pass off the signal to the EZIO for my computer to read it. I like the simplicity of this approach and using an Arduino earns you bonus points.

By: nick

nick — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:05:19 +0000

Rudi: it seems so obvious when you say it. Thanks for pointing that out!

By: Rudi

Rudi — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:08:00 +0000

“It also lets you pick one of three chimes to use …. As that setting is on the button itself, it must be sending it over the wireless signal.”

This is for using more than one button, i.e. at the front door and at the back door. Each button (location) thus can have its own melody.

By: Setting up my Current Cost Meter | Chris Dalby Untangles Networks

Setting up my Current Cost Meter | Chris Dalby Untangles Networks — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:45:54 +0000

[...] certainly is a great bit of fun at the moment. Seeing people getting their doorbell online also makes me want to go and buy a doorbell for a weekend project. Stay tuned for more blog posts [...]

By: Current Cost « The lost outpost

Current Cost « The lost outpost — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:55:10 +0000

[...] tangible to hack around with. It has also led me into a bunch of interesting discussions about home automation, tweetjects and low-power servers. Fascinating [...]

By: nick

nick — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:57:47 +0000

@roo – it’s a hidden switch inside the button battery compartment. As you can have multiple receivers there is something to be said for only having to pick the chime in one place – but it evidently does complicate the signal it has to send out.