On 14/03/2019 18:09, R D S wrote:
On 14/03/2019 17:58, Robin wrote:
On 14/03/2019 17:24, R D S wrote:
On 11/03/2019 21:17, Dave W wrote:

However, wireless doorbells have a downside - the sound is always the
same no matter how long or short the button press is, so you can't
tell how desperate the caller is.

If our doorbell rings and I haven't ordered a takeaway I don't get up.

Intercom system? Or you just don't care if the police are evacuating
the area because of unexploded bomb, chemical spill, marauding gang of
angle-grinder wielding Amazons or whatever?


Well i'd see the blue lights then. Or presumably they'd ring/bang
persistently.


They don't, having been evacuated due to a bomb.
They ring and are next door before you can get to the door.