can this unit be hooked up to a cellphone instead of a land line?
477519
Yes. We have this set up for our travel trailer and have used it for 5 years now. You need to get an intermediate between the telephone dialer and the cell phone. Look for landline to cell phone devices. We used the Cobra PhoneLynx BT-215 Bluetooth Cell to Home Phone Adapter Connection System (which is also available on Amazon). You connect the dialer to the phonelynz and it calls out via a blue tooth connection. Only thing you need to do is add a long pause (4 full seconds) before dialling in the programming of the dialer to give the phone lynx time to connect to the cell phone. We used an old blue tooth compatible cell phone leftover from the old days and in a new sim card purchased from Rogers (Canadian company) and a prepared service card that has 100 minutes and one year of service for $100 dollars. If you are not in Canada you can shop around for the best deal. This means if the alarm is activated the trailer will call as many numbers as you program, to alert you it has gone off. It has worked faithfully for us. Since we leave pets in our travel trailer, we also bought a temperature monitor (also available from Skylynx) which would alert us if our air-conditioning failed and it got too hot for the pets in our travel trailer while we were away. It's kind of a fuss to set up initially and the programming is a pain but once it's in it works really well. I would suggest if you can avoid blue tooth connection do so, as we find the blue connection drops every so often for no apparent reason and you need to reset the telephone. The bluetooth system is older and I suspect there is a better way to connect a land line to a cell phone. (We also use solar power to avoid going through a 9 volt battery a day when we are not connected to a shore power source but that is another story.)
259847
It works without a land line if you want to use it only for cell linking through bluetooth.
466727
Yes. You only need to hooked up the base unit to the phone line. It works well.
1595483
There is an adapter that can be switched to either iPhone or Micro USB. That said, I would not waste my time with this phone. It had way to much static and noise on the line to had the volume of calls I needed.
1067388
You have to have a land line. They said they are working on the unit to be able to call cell phone. The system works well other than that
1744388
The base system is used with a landline, but the company web site says you may buy a Bluetooth adapter to work will a cell phone
970600
I believe you can get a cell adaptor so you can use cellphone. Without that, I think its land line only.
1367484
Not unless you plan on connecting a landline phone to make outgoing calls using that port. But when you hook it up to a phone line, you already can call in to it (you would have to set the number of rings before it answers on initial setup) also, the phone line from the wall connects to the "out line". If connecting a telephone or answering machine using the same outlet, you connect that to the "phone" port. (That messed me up when I was setting mine up, but that was the only problem I had)
315212
You need a phone line, but it does not have to be a "land line". I am using AT&T;'s wireless home system and it works fine. Should also work with VOIP
691713
Hi Ned, I don't think so unless you had an adapter of some sort. The end is a 3.5 mm plug that goes into your phone. It is made to keep the radiation from your head and a land line doesn't have any so you wouldn't need it.
999331
You need to be able to plug the base unit into a power outlet and a phone jack (land line). Once you've done that the unit can call cell phones or land lines in case of emergency. We have ours set to call 1 land line and 3 cell phones with no problems so far.
1259554
Hi Really ike my phone. It is not a cell phone, needs a land line. My hearing is pretty bad and this phone really helps. PB
279111
If you want it to dial it you need a land line.but you can install it without the land line
673049
it has a port on side where you connect phone line like on a traditional phone.so you probably have to have a landline
3045
yes, but you have to have a base station for it. it's just like a blue tooth phone it has to connect with base station.
1696702
You will need a "landline." Since you have only internet and Ethernet running to the area you could use a Ooma or MagicJack Plus device to generate a "landline" at the unit.
388591
Yes it works like a land line. It will also ring on my cell and I can use my cell,home cordless or google website to make calls.