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Re:Neighbour manages to pollute the 2.4 ghz spectrum with hi... by adflux on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @07:55AM (#26873375)
Funnily, yesterday I was at someone who has a house outfitted like this. But the battery of his doorbell ran out so I had to knock, LOL.
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Re:Neighbour manages to pollute the 2.4 ghz spectrum with hi... by dheera on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @12:17PM (#26876696)
Shitty design. Doorbells should never need batteries. Even a tiny, tiny solar power panel and a method of power storage would be able to keep it going indefinitely.
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Re:Neighbour manages to pollute the 2.4 ghz spectrum with hi... by pbhjpbhj on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @04:13PM (#26894839)
Our door bell harvests the kinetic energy from being pressed and uses that to generate the trigger signal for the base-station. Sadly it fails if the push isn't firm enough, it appears not to have any sort of battery.
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Re:Neighbour manages to pollute the 2.4 ghz spectrum with hi... by fogihujy on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @08:11AM (#26873512)
That works both ways. We have an actual bell as a doorbell. People knock because they don't realise they can ring the actual bell. -.-
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