We need loud and distinctive tones! I have a front door, side door and back door. They are all hardwired to the upstairs and the basement. Right now we have chimes that are wired for two doors for one tone and the other for another tone. None are...
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I only hv it hooked up to 1 door, but the instruction show what is needed to hook it up to multiple doors. The unit needs to be placed somewhere that is accessible in order to change the tones, not like traditional ones that r put out of site. It has sound level setting & it can be very loud. We hv it on the lowest setting. G/L
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No. Agree it's not annoying. It sounds like a standard two-tone chime--ding, dong. I have a rather large home and do not always hear it from the upstairs master bedroom--furthest room from chime.
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I wanted to do the same thing. I received two units and took them apart hoping to find dip switches or a pot to set the frequencies. I was unsuccessful - it appears they are factory set. I ended up putting both buttons on the door with "please ring both" written on them. So far so good. There may be a way to set them but it is beyond my skills. As I recall there was a code on the packaging which may indicate the frequency. You may be able to get two units with the same code. Good luck.
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I have mine in the basement. I can hear it from the top of the basement stairs but do not hear it in the living room above the basement. There shouldn't be any problem with adjacent apartments.
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Well this truly is a very important point/question/answer. I live in a town house and I need speakers that wont be heard by neighbors, this is the true audiophile's lifestyle problem. What you have said about the sound being heard more in the listening room than in the entire house would actually be a good marketing argument for Martin Logan to promote this speakers. Ill test this out. Thanks guys.
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Yes. I have two of them hanging on a front door, and I hear it loud as anything when upstairs.... so one within a one floor unit should definitely be loud enough.
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The motion sensors chime when activated. You can also set the door sensors/window sensors to do the same. I personally didn't because it would be too much chiming, lol. I have had my system for 2 years now and love it. I would highly recommend getting another chime/alarm ringer linked to it for your upstairs if you have a 2 story/3 story home.
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Hi Rick--you have to provide your own transformer (and/or batteries), and buttons. I purchased Heath Zenith 121AC Wired Door Chime Transformer and two NuTone PB7LSN Wired One-Lighted Door Chime Push Button, Satin Nickel Finish. I also separately purchased some doorbell wire, I think 18AWG (18 gauge). I think you can get a higher gauge number (thinner) but I was making long runs to the back and front doors of my commercial building, so wanted to have more copper for the long runs of wire. I specifically wanted a hard-wired doorbell because wireless has not been very reliable for me, and I needed complete reliability.
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Yes... I have one chime in my house and one in the detached garage for when my husband is out there working on his truck.
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I have a 1000 sq ft house and I can clearly hear it throughout the house, even when interior doors are shut. I can not hear it outside the house though, I'll probably need to add another speaker for outside. Its a cool doorbell though, its great to see guests reactions when they press the button and the doorbell "moo's" :)
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we bought new speaker wire because we didn't get any with our system. I would buy more because I think we used 100 feet of speaker wire in the basement, for this system. What you have may not be enough.
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There is a chime, it takes a good bit of shaking for it to happen though. Seems to be impossible to find them without a chime. It's actually a rather "tin" sound and not what i think of when i think of a chime.
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Yes, this is intended for wired doorbells ... simply take the cover off the chime on the wall in your house, and follow the extremely simple and clear instructions to attach the couple of wires to this/your existing chime ... just use the two wires labeled "Front Door" if you only have a front door bell, and use the third wire labeled "Back Door" also if you also have a rear doorbell. I like the two I previously ordered so much I just ordered a third one for my garage workshop! Great range. Great product.
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it is 'electronic' chime. must be wired in and if you want more than one in your house, they must be identical in order to work. that is why I returned mine. It was nice looking, but would not synch with my other doorbell. It also had more tunes than one I ended up with, which was disappointing.
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Yes, you can use 3 different chimes. Mine has been working 2 years without a battery change. The chime is very soft so if hearing is an issue, get a real doorbell.
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"Polyphonic tunes" that are approximately 5 seconds long and sound like: (1) many-toned/instrumented (almost organ-y) 'grand entrance'; (2) happy clangy normal doorbell chime (to me); (3) complex dark pianistic tune. I think they are quite nice. I picked (2) as our normal tune and I was thinking of using (1) for winter holidays and (3) for Halloween. They don't sound like snippets of radio tunes, just really fancy doorbell chimes. =)
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I sometimes hear false chimes -- ours is set to door chime mode -- but am not sure what triggers them. I believe this looks for warm bodies that move, not just movement of anything.