I have an idea for a new project, and wanted to get some ideas about how to accomplish it.
Our home has a 16VAC wired doorbell system installed. The bell is in a cheap white nutone plastic housing in the living room.
I want to upgrade this with a vintage longbell tubular chime, and primarily so we can hear in the whole home, I want to install it on the wall above the stairs to the second floor.
The doorbell I got is an older 24VAC unit, which is fine. On the other side of the wall of interest is a bathroom, and I can fairly easily drill a hole to supply it with that power.
The tricky part is the wiring of the pushbuttons. Even though the distance is short (~20ft?) it is not easy to re-route the pushbutton wiring up to the stairwell.
So now I am thinking of setting up some wireless connection between the two doorbells. The living room doorbell will be non-functional, except to transmit a trigger signal to the other doorbell.
I would need at least two different signals (front and rear door buttons), but I am thinking more would be better because I may outfit the new bell with selectable chimes, where a longer press would yield a different tone sequence.
I would love any pointers to suggestions about solutions that would be
- relatively simple analog, with some minimal encoding (AM?)
- solutions that leverage cheap already available consumer electronics
Thanks!
Our home has a 16VAC wired doorbell system installed. The bell is in a cheap white nutone plastic housing in the living room.
I want to upgrade this with a vintage longbell tubular chime, and primarily so we can hear in the whole home, I want to install it on the wall above the stairs to the second floor.
The doorbell I got is an older 24VAC unit, which is fine. On the other side of the wall of interest is a bathroom, and I can fairly easily drill a hole to supply it with that power.
The tricky part is the wiring of the pushbuttons. Even though the distance is short (~20ft?) it is not easy to re-route the pushbutton wiring up to the stairwell.
So now I am thinking of setting up some wireless connection between the two doorbells. The living room doorbell will be non-functional, except to transmit a trigger signal to the other doorbell.
I would need at least two different signals (front and rear door buttons), but I am thinking more would be better because I may outfit the new bell with selectable chimes, where a longer press would yield a different tone sequence.
I would love any pointers to suggestions about solutions that would be
- relatively simple analog, with some minimal encoding (AM?)
- solutions that leverage cheap already available consumer electronics
Thanks!