to think that the least I can expect of a wireless door chime is for it to chime when someone presses the button

[OrlandoWoolf]

Rather than I'll ring. No, I won't. Maybe I will. No I won't.

Maybe it's the house. I have had 2 door chimes which seem to have an attitude problem. I think I should get a door knocker.

Ours is the same. We have two on the door now too because the first one was so hit and miss.

It it new? Or does the button battery in the transmitter need replacing?

If you work it out let me know. Ours has had battery replaced. Test on plug in bit works. Battery replaced on bell push which lights up when you push button. Its more moody than a moody thing. It is giving me RAGE...

It is brand new. It rang today when the police came round to ask about my car. It completely failed to ring for the postman. Or the parcel guy. Or the meter reader.

When I first got mine I had some user error in that some people weren't pressing the button hard enough and it was a bit stiff as it was new.

Ooo-err!

Can anyone tell me what type of battery theirs takes? I moved into my house and found no battery and so I don't know what to ask for in the shop... I am sick of buying the wrong ones and also sick of delivery men thinking I'm not in when I am!

We have loads of problems with ours. A couple of years ago, our neighbours across the road were receiving our doorbell ring - took us both a while to figure that out. Then our receiver unit started playing through it's full list of tunes for no reason - think Twinkle, Twinkle and Yankee Doodle and other annoying tunes.

Not sure what it's doing at the moment but I am enjoying the peace and quiet

My wireless door bell has about 12 tunes shows off but to change them they have to be the exact number on the tiny dial that is on both the plug in and door bell itself.

We thought ours had broken when tenants lived in our house. All I had to do is re align the dial so both numbers match we have Big Ben try realigning the dials?

If you have a uPVC front door, wireless chimes won't work reliably.

Is it a Belkin one? Had two in two different house and they were both crap...

Ours plays a different tune according to whether somebody has rung ours or the neighbours. It is currently broken (prob just the battery) and we've not bothered to fix it as it doesn't ring half the time anyway!

Save yourself the trauma and sellotape a "bell not working" sign onto it.

They are shit. Utter useless shit. We have one that is temperamental and arsey. It'll sometimes work when the inner door is open. Luckily our postie just knows on the window as we can here that everywhere

Ours rings when no one is at the door. It seems to be picking up one of the neighbour's bells, but we've poked our head out and never been able to spot who.

Luckily, their bell gives a different ring to our bell so we just ignore their tune now.

Mine you to go off when someone pressed my neighbours bell but not mine [hmmm] I took the batteries out. Everyone now knows to knock my door, even my postman. If they aren't privy to this then I probably don't want to see them anyway

Ours rings when no one is at the door.

My mother's never worked except when I pressed the key-fob for my car. Then it went thru its whole repertoire. It's a shame that the Hallelujah Chorus wasn't on its playlist as I do like to make an entrance.

I'll just stick with my lion's head knocker I think.

Maybe we should revert to bell-pulls like in houses of yore, but instead of the bells showing where/which servant was required they would indicate who was the puller? One for friends, one for post/parcels; one for hawkers. Of course you'd have to devise a bell-ring code as the double-glazing salesmen would always be ringing the friends' bell.

Plan this carefully & you could have appropriate manual doorbell; tho you'd need a fair amount of training before you'd get 'Ding Dong Merrily' by Dec 2014