Battery life of wireless doorbell

[Dave Plowman (News)]

... or for it, not everyone has either a tiny house or wants
a bell system that loud, which tends to be that much louder
in areas adjacent to it.

If you can't hear a bell throughout the house, why bother with one? Just
have a knocker on the door - no batteries to go flat and no running costs.

If you have plaster walls or
teenagers/others with loud stereos you may also find there's
no one bell system that can be heard everywhere without
waking the dead in the next zip code.

In short the ideal bell system is not as loud as possible,
it's only loud enough to be heard reliably. One could wire
up secondary chimes but considering the addt'l time and/or
expense it may not not suit all needs either.

It's such a one time installation worth getting right, IMHO.

You don't "have" to take anything with you, that's like
claiming it's a negative thing that a notebook is portable.

Not a good simile. You find a notebook when you want to refer to it. A
doorbell is needed at random. And it's such a random thing the idea of
carrying it with you strikes me as silly. If you did need such a feature
one which interfaced with your mobile would make more sense. Easy enough
to do with an alarm SDI if you wanted to.

 

[kony]

If you can't hear a bell throughout the house, why bother with one? Just
have a knocker on the door - no batteries to go flat and no running costs.

It's quite simple really, you don't want the doorbell so
loud nearby, but also want to be able to hear it elsewhere,
for a different door.

It's such a one time installation worth getting right, IMHO.

How would you propose to not "get it right"?
You seem arbitrarily set against a cordless doorbell merely
because you can't envision a use for your subjective
purposes. That doesn't begin to make it a bad choice for a
different, subject's purposes.

Not a good simile. You find a notebook when you want to refer to it. A
doorbell is needed at random. And it's such a random thing the idea of
carrying it with you strikes me as silly. If you did need such a feature
one which interfaced with your mobile would make more sense. Easy enough
to do with an alarm SDI if you wanted to.

How it is random? Do you really not expect people coming
over ahead of time, they always show up by surprise?
Perhaps at your front door, but remember this is a separate
remote button and may be at a different door- one where
people showing up may not be doing so at random.

It goes back to what I already wrote, you just don't
envision a use for _your_ door, and you might be quite right
about it... but that doesn't make what someone else chooses
to do any less useful to them.