I have just spend nearly an hour trying to track down the source of an
occasional double beep every couple of minutes, from somewhere in the
house. Mobile phones - no, handline phones - no, weather station
warning - no, laptop -no, Pi - no, a clock somewhere -no, getting
warmer upstairs and found it. Linked mains fire alarm system back up
battery warning, on its way out.

On 23/07/2018 13:40, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
I have just spend nearly an hour trying to track down the source of an
occasional double beep every couple of minutes, from somewhere in the
house. Mobile phones - no, handline phones - no, weather station warning
- no, laptop -no, Pi - no, a clock somewhere -no, getting warmer
upstairs and found it. Linked mains fire alarm system back up battery
warning, on its way out.

Pah! Wait until you take get the ladder, remove the mains, interlinked
heat alarm off the kitchen ceiling, and *then* find it's the CO alarm
that someone stuck at the back of the shelf of cookery books that's beeping.

I blame BT for starting it with those bloody Trimphones.

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On Monday, 23 July 2018 13:40:04 UTC+1, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
I have just spend nearly an hour trying to track down the source of an
occasional double beep every couple of minutes, from somewhere in the
house. Mobile phones - no, handline phones - no, weather station
warning - no, laptop -no, Pi - no, a clock somewhere -no, getting
warmer upstairs and found it. Linked mains fire alarm system back up
battery warning, on its way out.

I've heard some parrots and other birds can immitaite a fire alarm now that would be bloody annoying.

That would be my first guess. Even my el cheapo one does this.
Brian

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I have just spend nearly an hour trying to track down the source of an
occasional double beep every couple of minutes, from somewhere in the
house. Mobile phones - no, handline phones - no, weather station warning -
no, laptop -no, Pi - no, a clock somewhere -no, getting warmer upstairs and
found it. Linked mains fire alarm system back up battery warning, on its
way out.

Did you know them bloody trimphones had a radioactive gas in a glass tube
behind the dial?
It is apparently now illegal to do such things. I've never heard of anyone
being injured by a trimfone.


Soon unfortunately, some internet connected devices like home automation
devices, wahing machines fridges all bleep different bleeps if they loose
the wifi signal.
My current dumb waher bleeps for errors as well but luckily most of them
are door not closed, filter clogged in any case so there is little choice to
check!
Brian

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On 23/07/2018 13:40, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
I have just spend nearly an hour trying to track down the source of an
occasional double beep every couple of minutes, from somewhere in the
house. Mobile phones - no, handline phones - no, weather station
warning - no, laptop -no, Pi - no, a clock somewhere -no, getting warmer
upstairs and found it. Linked mains fire alarm system back up battery
warning, on its way out.

Pah! Wait until you take get the ladder, remove the mains, interlinked
heat alarm off the kitchen ceiling, and *then* find it's the CO alarm that
someone stuck at the back of the shelf of cookery books that's beeping.

I blame BT for starting it with those bloody Trimphones.

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On Monday, 23 July 2018 15:34:32 UTC+1, whisky-dave wrote:
On Monday, 23 July 2018 13:40:04 UTC+1, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
I have just spend nearly an hour trying to track down the source of an
occasional double beep every couple of minutes, from somewhere in the
house. Mobile phones - no, handline phones - no, weather station
warning - no, laptop -no, Pi - no, a clock somewhere -no, getting
warmer upstairs and found it. Linked mains fire alarm system back up
battery warning, on its way out.

I've heard some parrots and other birds can immitaite a fire alarm now that would be bloody annoying.

It is.

On 23/07/2018 15:34, whisky-dave wrote:
On Monday, 23 July 2018 13:40:04 UTC+1, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
I have just spend nearly an hour trying to track down the source of an
occasional double beep every couple of minutes, from somewhere in the
house. Mobile phones - no, handline phones - no, weather station
warning - no, laptop -no, Pi - no, a clock somewhere -no, getting
warmer upstairs and found it. Linked mains fire alarm system back up
battery warning, on its way out.

I've heard some parrots and other birds can immitaite a fire alarm now that would be bloody annoying.


Could be worse, they could imitate the wife.

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On 23/07/2018 16:58, Brian Gaff wrote:
I have just spend nearly an hour trying to track down the source of an
occasional double beep every couple of minutes, from somewhere in the
house. Mobile phones - no, handline phones - no, weather station warning -
no, laptop -no, Pi - no, a clock somewhere -no, getting warmer upstairs and
found it. Linked mains fire alarm system back up battery warning, on its
way out.

Worst search & find I had was when son was staying over xmas, he is in
RAF and they they use white noise for their children to block out
aircraft noise taking off.
So I could hearwater running searched the house top to bottom (minus
childs room) checked the loft nothing. After 2 days I asked son if he
could help. He ****ed himself laughing when he explained it was a white
noise of water running to get his son to sleep.

"Brian Gaff" wrote in message
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Did you know them bloody trimphones had a radioactive gas in a glass tube
behind the dial?
It is apparently now illegal to do such things. I've never heard of anyone
being injured by a trimfone.

But if they had been, you wouldn’t normally get to hear about it
because it would have increased the cancer risk, not produced a
sudden death that could be explained by the phone breaking etc.

Soon unfortunately, some internet connected devices like home automation
devices, wahing machines fridges all bleep different bleeps if they loose
the wifi signal.

None of mine do. The only real source of unexpected
beeps is web sites that beep when the chat pops up
to see if you want to chat with their sales droid etc.

My current dumb waher

?

bleeps for errors as well but luckily most of them are door not closed,
filter clogged in any case so there is little choice to check!

I did have a hell of a problem with a very quiet very
occasional beep in my dad's flat after he moved into
a retirement village. It was obviously a smoke alarm
that had got packed into a box when he was moving
and had never been unpacked in the new place.

Beeped very infrequently so it could still beep with a
flat battery and the packing made it very hard to work
out which of his boxes of stuff it had been packed in.

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On 23/07/2018 13:40, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
I have just spend nearly an hour trying to track down the source of an
occasional double beep every couple of minutes, from somewhere in the
house. Mobile phones - no, handline phones - no, weather station
warning - no, laptop -no, Pi - no, a clock somewhere -no, getting warmer
upstairs and found it. Linked mains fire alarm system back up battery
warning, on its way out.

Pah! Wait until you take get the ladder, remove the mains, interlinked
heat alarm off the kitchen ceiling, and *then* find it's the CO alarm
that someone stuck at the back of the shelf of cookery books that's
beeping.

I blame BT for starting it with those bloody Trimphones.

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On 23/07/2018 16:58, Brian Gaff wrote:
I have just spend nearly an hour trying to track down the source of an
occasional double beep every couple of minutes, from somewhere in the
house. Mobile phones - no, handline phones - no, weather station
warning -
no, laptop -no, Pi - no, a clock somewhere -no, getting warmer upstairs
and
found it. Linked mains fire alarm system back up battery warning, on its
way out.

Worst search & find I had was when son was staying over xmas, he is in RAF
and they they use white noise for their children to block out aircraft
noise taking off.
So I could hearwater running searched the house top to bottom (minus
childs room) checked the loft nothing. After 2 days I asked son if he
could help. He ****ed himself laughing when he explained it was a white
noise of water running to get his son to sleep.

Surprised it didnt have the side effect of making him **** the bed.

On Tue, 24 Jul 2018 04:59:42 +1000, cantankerous senile geezer Rot Speed
blabbered, again:


None of mine do. The only real source of unexpected
beeps is web sites that beep

Your head does, ALL the time, senile oaf! Or where does your daftness come
from, senile oaf?

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On Tue, 24 Jul 2018 05:10:41 +1000, cantankerous senile geezer Rot Speed
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Surprised it didn¢t have the side effect of making him **** the bed.

You would know something about THAT, you incontinent senile geezer!

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On Mon, 23 Jul 2018 13:40:00 +0100, Harry Bloomfield wrote:

I have just spend nearly an hour trying to track down the source of an
occasional double beep every couple of minutes, from somewhere in the
house. Mobile phones - no, handline phones - no, weather station warning
- no, laptop -no, Pi - no, a clock somewhere -no, getting warmer
upstairs and found it. Linked mains fire alarm system back up battery
warning, on its way out.

We have quite a few Bosch appliances, and they all have the same beeper
module.

Freezer, oven, kettle, washing machine, tumble dryer...

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On 23/07/2018 17:02, Brian Gaff wrote:
Did you know them bloody trimphones had a radioactive gas in a glass tube
behind the dial?
It is apparently now illegal to do such things. I've never heard of anyone
being injured by a trimfone.

The gas was probably tritium (radioactive isotope of hydrogen) and you
can still get glass tubes filled with it, for example:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Trigalight-...2380689&sr=8-1

On 23/07/2018 13:40, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
I have just spend nearly an hour trying to track down the source of an
occasional double beep every couple of minutes, from somewhere in the
house. Mobile phones - no, handline phones - no, weather station warning
- no, laptop -no, Pi - no, a clock somewhere -no, getting warmer
upstairs and found it. Linked mains fire alarm system back up battery
warning, on its way out.

We had an intermittent beep. If we were in the living room, it sounded
like it was in the kitchen and vice-versa. It took us days to track down
to the chip-reading cat flap in the back door!

SteveW

On 23/07/2018 15:34, whisky-dave wrote:
On Monday, 23 July 2018 13:40:04 UTC+1, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
I have just spend nearly an hour trying to track down the source of an
occasional double beep every couple of minutes, from somewhere in the
house. Mobile phones - no, handline phones - no, weather station
warning - no, laptop -no, Pi - no, a clock somewhere -no, getting
warmer upstairs and found it. Linked mains fire alarm system back up
battery warning, on its way out.

I've heard some parrots and other birds can immitaite a fire alarm now that would be bloody annoying.

There's a wild bird around here that does a pretty good impression of a
trimphone.

SteveW

Yes there does seem to be a problem with the amazon devices skill for sleep
sounds. The main issue is that the sample rate or compression in the sounds
is too poor and you get a continual swizzling sound rather than a his with
anyting like babbling brrooks or white noise.
It was a good idea, I'm sure but pooly implimented.
Brian

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On 23/07/2018 16:58, Brian Gaff wrote:
I have just spend nearly an hour trying to track down the source of an
occasional double beep every couple of minutes, from somewhere in the
house. Mobile phones - no, handline phones - no, weather station
warning -
no, laptop -no, Pi - no, a clock somewhere -no, getting warmer upstairs
and
found it. Linked mains fire alarm system back up battery warning, on its
way out.

Worst search & find I had was when son was staying over xmas, he is in RAF
and they they use white noise for their children to block out aircraft
noise taking off.
So I could hearwater running searched the house top to bottom (minus
childs room) checked the loft nothing. After 2 days I asked son if he
could help. He ****ed himself laughing when he explained it was a white
noise of water running to get his son to sleep.

Panasonic do much the same. In this day of tech, I'd imagine some variation
in sound would be very easy and cheap to do.
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On Mon, 23 Jul 2018 13:40:00 +0100, Harry Bloomfield wrote:

I have just spend nearly an hour trying to track down the source of an
occasional double beep every couple of minutes, from somewhere in the
house. Mobile phones - no, handline phones - no, weather station warning
- no, laptop -no, Pi - no, a clock somewhere -no, getting warmer
upstairs and found it. Linked mains fire alarm system back up battery
warning, on its way out.

We have quite a few Bosch appliances, and they all have the same beeper
module.

Freezer, oven, kettle, washing machine, tumble dryer...

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Yes, I noticed when recently changing the battery in one of those remote
mains switch radio things that it bleeped when I put a new battery in it,
however if it was meant to bleep when the battery went down, it failed
miserably as when I changed it you had to be within 6 inches of the switch
for it to work. and no it did not beep when you pressed its button either.
Mystified really by some of the tech.
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On 23/07/2018 13:40, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
I have just spend nearly an hour trying to track down the source of an
occasional double beep every couple of minutes, from somewhere in the
house. Mobile phones - no, handline phones - no, weather station
warning - no, laptop -no, Pi - no, a clock somewhere -no, getting warmer
upstairs and found it. Linked mains fire alarm system back up battery
warning, on its way out.

We had an intermittent beep. If we were in the living room, it sounded
like it was in the kitchen and vice-versa. It took us days to track down
to the chip-reading cat flap in the back door!

SteveW

On 23/07/2018 23:05, Steve Walker wrote:
I've heard some parrots and other birds can immitaite a fire alarm now
that would be bloody annoying.

There's a wild bird around here that does a pretty good impression of a
trimphone.

My neighbours son (4 years old) done a good impression of postman pat
and phoned the fekcin fire brigade.
The funny part was his dad was a policeman and his best mate was a
fireman who happened to be on duty who phoned his mate on the way to the
`false alarm`to let him know his house was on fire (which it wasnt)

On 23/07/2018 22:23, Gareth wrote:
On 23/07/2018 17:02, Brian Gaff wrote:
Did you know them bloody trimphones had a radioactive gas in a
glass tube behind the dial? It is apparently now illegal to do such
things. I've never heard of anyone being injured by a trimfone.

The gas was probably tritium (radioactive isotope of hydrogen) and
you can still get glass tubes filled with it, for example:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Trigalight-...2380689&sr=8-1



Now you have scared harry letting him know you can get highly
radioactive stuff (short halflife) on the internet.

On Tuesday, 24 July 2018 14:58:21 UTC+1, dennis@home wrote:
On 23/07/2018 22:23, Gareth wrote:
On 23/07/2018 17:02, Brian Gaff wrote:
Did you know them bloody trimphones had a radioactive gas in a
glass tube behind the dial? It is apparently now illegal to do such
things. I've never heard of anyone being injured by a trimfone.

The gas was probably tritium (radioactive isotope of hydrogen) and
you can still get glass tubes filled with it, for example:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Trigalight-...2380689&sr=8-1



Now you have scared harry letting him know you can get highly
radioactive stuff (short halflife) on the internet.

Like socks you mean as I'm sure my socks must have a half life because I buy them in pairs and one disapears !. :-)

On 24/07/2018 15:28, whisky-dave wrote:
On Tuesday, 24 July 2018 14:58:21 UTC+1, dennis@home wrote:
On 23/07/2018 22:23, Gareth wrote:
On 23/07/2018 17:02, Brian Gaff wrote:
Did you know them bloody trimphones had a radioactive gas in a
glass tube behind the dial? It is apparently now illegal to do such
things. I've never heard of anyone being injured by a trimfone.

The gas was probably tritium (radioactive isotope of hydrogen) and
you can still get glass tubes filled with it, for example:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Trigalight-...2380689&sr=8-1



Now you have scared harry letting him know you can get highly
radioactive stuff (short halflife) on the internet.

Like socks you mean as I'm sure my socks must have a half life because I buy them in pairs and one disapears !. :-)



Well some socks will be radioactive, wool based ones probably are.

On 23/07/2018 13:40, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
I have just spend nearly an hour trying to track down the source of an
occasional double beep every couple of minutes, from somewhere in the
house. Mobile phones - no, handline phones - no, weather station warning
- no, laptop -no, Pi - no, a clock somewhere -no, getting warmer
upstairs and found it. Linked mains fire alarm system back up battery
warning, on its way out.

It gets worse when the gadget has been put away for safe keeping in a
drawer or box "just in case it will come in useful one day in the
future" - and the beeps only occur once every 5 minutes during the night.

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"dennis@home" Wrote in message:
On 23/07/2018 22:23, Gareth wrote:
On 23/07/2018 17:02, Brian Gaff wrote:
Did you know them bloody trimphones had a radioactive gas in a
glass tube behind the dial? It is apparently now illegal to do such
things. I've never heard of anyone being injured by a trimfone.

The gas was probably tritium (radioactive isotope of hydrogen) and
you can still get glass tubes filled with it, for example:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Trigalight-...2380689&sr=8-1



Now you have scared harry letting him know you can get highly
radioactive stuff (short halflife) on the internet.


Shurely with a short half-life the trimphone dial would have lost
its means of illumination rather pointlessly quickly?

Almost as quickly, in fact, as Harry forgets what he's been taught
about half-lives...
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On 26/07/2018 09:27, Jim K wrote:
"dennis@home" Wrote in message:
On 23/07/2018 22:23, Gareth wrote:
On 23/07/2018 17:02, Brian Gaff wrote:
Did you know them bloody trimphones had a radioactive gas in a
glass tube behind the dial? It is apparently now illegal to do such
things. I've never heard of anyone being injured by a trimfone.

The gas was probably tritium (radioactive isotope of hydrogen) and
you can still get glass tubes filled with it, for example:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Trigalight-...2380689&sr=8-1



Now you have scared harry letting him know you can get highly
radioactive stuff (short halflife) on the internet.


Shurely with a short half-life the trimphone dial would have lost
its means of illumination rather pointlessly quickly?

Almost as quickly, in fact, as Harry forgets what he's been taught
about half-lives...


Well harry thinks things with a half life in tens of thousands of years
are highly radioactive so its enough to scare him.

I think a trimephone (light) has a half life of just over 12 years.

In article ,
Steve Walker wrote:
There's a wild bird around here that does a pretty good impression of a
trimphone.

Must be a pretty old bird. ;-)

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On 26/07/2018 17:09, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Steve Walker wrote:
There's a wild bird around here that does a pretty good impression of a
trimphone.

Must be a pretty old bird. ;-)

Lots of old birds here, we are surrounded by bungalows!

As to the flying trimphone, until now I have assumed that it was a
purely natural call, but who knows?

SteveW

Steve Walker wrote:

As to the flying trimphone, until now I have assumed that it was a
purely natural call, but who knows?

Perhaps Martyn Rowlands made the trimphone imitate his favourite bird call?