Hi Folks. I was looking for something to alert me down the garden if the doorbell rings indoors and discovered the BT Digital Audio Baby Monitor 400 on Amazon. It has a mains plug in unit which you can leave plugged in anywhere near your doorbell to pick up the sound when it rings, and a portable receiver unit running on batteries that you can carry down the garden with you that has a good range. The only trouble is getting to the front door before the postman has gone, as they don't hang around for long these days! Perhaps one or two training sessions with Usain Bolt might help here?
I’ve got a doorbell I could take in the garden, I bought it when my dad was ill and he could just press the button and I’d hear. Very small, very cheap fits in the pocket. isnt a baby alarm in your pocket a bit cumbersome.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
I have a ring doorbell, one of those video one..so if you have your phone with you in the garden, you phone will go if the doorbell rings…I also think you can get extra chimes and as long as they have power and are in Wi-Fi range they will work
Using a baby monitor is a good idea. In the end I went for a wireless door bell with chimes that can plug in anywhere (similar to the one pictured). I have one chime plugged in to a socket upstairs and one downstairs in the kitchen, near the backdoor. So with the door open, I can hear the bell better. Or, I have an outside plug, so could put stick the chime in there. It works for me as I have a small garden within wireless range of the front door bell. You can easily vary the chime tune, the volume and switch it on or off or unplug it. I got it for a tenner on a local swap group (one bell and two chimes).
The system is so very much easier than the old clunky wirelss system I inherited; it might have been a first gen wireless arrangement. I didn't want to get rid of the old system and tried hard to make it work better for me (I don't like getting rid of things that are still functional). But this is an example for me of when up-to-date tech that really works makes life can make life so much easier and it's worth making a jump and not hanging on to old stuff just because it isn't dead.
Other's might want to use a 'Ring' / video system where they can pick up their front door visitors on their phone. But I'm not a fan of surveilling my neighbours and don't like all shenanigans around what happens to the data and the footage etc. All too opaque and dodgy for me.
We installed something for my mother, who is very hard of hearing, which works just like a baby monitor but with a simpler interface. Unfortunately we installed one which makes a different sound depending on whether it is the doorbell or the telephone that rings but she never seemed to work this out. Now whenever the doorbell rings she rushes to answer the phone!
Also I was very amused when she complained after she'd had it about a week that now she was getting far more nuisance phone calls. (We installed it because she wasn't hearing the phone when we tried to call her).
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isnt a baby alarm in your pocket a bit cumbersome.
Good idea if you have those though,
Also I was very amused when she complained after she'd had it about a week that now she was getting far more nuisance phone calls. (We installed it because she wasn't hearing the phone when we tried to call her).