Category: (Home Improvement)
3 new, starting at $81.97
This iChime Doorbell replaces your current chime and gives you the choice of sounds to announce your visitors. Choose from the pre-programmed selections, record your own tune with the built-in microphone, record using iPod, CD Player, PC, or MP3 with line-in jack. Includes chimes, holiday, halloween, favorites, fun sounds, and special occasion. Announce your visitors in style, to custom music or sounds that you create yourself, or choose from six built-in catergories of songs, sound effects, and even voice phrases. This electronic door chime is designed to replace the normal wired mechanical door bell in your home. It supports a front door button (both lighted and non-lighted) as well as a back door button (optional). It can be setup to play any particular song or sound, or for more variety, it can sequence through any one of six different groups: Classic Chimes, Holiday, Halloween, Old Favorites, Fun Sounds, and Special Occasions. But the real versatility of this doorbell comes with its unique programmable feature. Using the built in microphone or the audio input jack, you can easily record or download up to 6 different songs or sounds - whatever you want! Total recording time is 60 seconds using state of the art flash memory. No more annoying ding dongs. Program songs for family events such as birthdays or anniversaries. Have it play your school fight song. Switch it to Holiday songs for your guests at your Christmas party. Have it scream or howl for Halloween. Record your favorite TV theme or movie catch phrase. The possibilities are endless. This product is limited only by your own imagination. iChime is truly the "Play Anything" doorbell! Doorbell has six terminal connections, as follow: Front door, Transformer, Back door, Pushbutton, Auxiliary speaker 1, Auxiliary speaker 2.
UnreliableReviewed by Gilbert Yee, 2010-02-18
There are some very nice features to this doorbell no doubt. Mine stopped working in less than 1 year. Very poor quality.
Musical DoorbellReviewed by Alex4Kids, 2010-02-13
We needed a new doorbell so we thought this one would be fun. So far we put the Halloween tunes on in October--the kids loved it so much that when they came trick or treating they'd ask to push the doorbell again. We have also used the Christmas chimes. It's a nice change from the regular ding, dong! Have yet to try and download any additional tunes to it....
Great concept, poor executionReviewed by crrlygrrl, 2009-09-22
The iChime is exactly what I had been looking for and purchased it immediately. Overall it is a decent and definitely fun product. My main complaint and the reason why I'm only giving it 3 stars, is the sound quality. You will definitely need one or two extra auxiliary speakers as it is not nearly loud enough to hear that someone is ringing the doorbell. Also the speaker is crap so when you turn the volume all the way up it sounds like it's going to blow. Recording in your own music requires a little bit of trial and error. You will need a male to male audio cable, don't even bother attempting to hold the unit up to a speaker and record that way. It also requires 4 AA batteries which seems like overkill. They claim the batteries last forever but mine already died while I was recording in my own doorbells. As long as you are willing to hook up extra speakers, I'm going to say it's still worth a purchase because of the fun factor.
Easy to installReviewed by RK, 2009-04-10
The installation was very easy. Be warned that the unit is not all that loud especially in a larger home with basement. Recording your own music to the unit plays back terrible. I tried to run music directly wired and as a recording unit. Both sound is unacceptable as a doorbell. BUT...it is fun to hear the different pre-recorded sounds. Also a lot of fun to change the sounds for holidays and special occasions. I guess the little kid in me wins out and I would buy it again just because it is fun.
Very fun doorbellReviewed by Steve Fleischer, 2009-01-30
We really enjoyed this doorbell over the holidays. The mp3 upload option is fun. My kids loaded a favorite song from an iPod. I would recommend this product.