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    Multi unit building intercom advice please!

    I'm now living in a multi building which has a Fermax Intercom phone in my flat.

    However the buzzer sound is sooo soft and so quiet even after I've turned it up as much as I can inside the unit that I've already had one missed delivery and just never hear it. Not helped by the way my flat is laid out meaning that I have 2 walls between me and the handset and the flat actually deadens noise very well.

    I've asked the management agents who can get a further speaker unit fitted but it would still be near the same place as the exisiting one and they think it won't help that much. I've asked them to do it anyway...

    So... any ideas?

    The handset I have is this one: http://www.intercomsrus.com/handset%...ta%20Sheet.pdf

    Note : I cannot put a personal seperate item on the outside of the building and the building is secure so I can't put on delivery instructions for people to come in and have a door bell on the outside of my door instead. I have to "build" on the system that is already here.
    Last edited by EricKei; 01-22-2015, 04:29 AM. Reason: merged consecutive posts
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    Techgeek suggestion - and I have no idea if you're tech-geeky enough to do this.

    Build a device which has a short-range unidirectional microphone pointed at the speaker. Whenever it hears the speaker, it alerts you.
    Means of alerting you include sending a bluetooth signal to any bluetooth receivers you own, or blaring Pachelbel's Canon out of a speaker it has, or sending a signal to strategically-placed speakers in your flat that then play Flight of the Bumblebees....

    I get creative when I've not had enough sleep.

    I also thought of blaring a red alert siren and flashing red lights, but maybe that's overkill.
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    • #3
      A baby monitor system that's turned up really high may work, but it'll pick up and amplify any other sounds near the speaker area, as well.
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      • #4
        Seshat - they do make "door knocker" detectors which can send a visual alert to a blinker for the hard of hearing. Not sure if it would pick up a PE buzzer* or not but is one definate idea.

        EricKei - definately an idea I like and there isn't a *lot* of sound it could pick up in the area. only the door being knocked or the buzzer sound... most of the ones I have found the baby side of the unit runs off mains only for some reason so I'd have to run a power feed to it. Not impossible and would definately boost how much I could hear it.

        *A semi-electrian friend looked at the pictures in the PDF of the handset and says he thinks the buzzer is a PE type which is (from my basic understanding) not a sound as much as vibration caused by the current being passed through the circuit by pressing the outdoor call button. Since there isn't an external power supply I think that is right.
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        • #5
          You could contact the manufacturer and see what they would suggest. The unit could be defective and in need of replacement.
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          • #6
            Brand new unit was only put in a few weeks ago - prior one didn't work at all and it was the first thing that I asked the management company about when I got the keys. The management company have an intercom engineer outsourced/on staff who is the one who has given them the information about the extra speaker etc.

            If anything is defective its the wiring between me and the front panel.... which would mean a lot of work to pull out and replace and would (possibly) mean the whole block has to be redone.
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            • #7
              Update on this:

              Ordered and been using a baby monitor since I set up this thread and whilst it does pick up the buzzer when set right on top of it it also picked up any hallway activity and any bathroom noise.... oops. Its a great way to deal with the issue short term however and if anyone finds this thread later go for it!

              I did get to hear several arguments from the flat downstairs with their arriving and departing guests which was mildly amusing however . I won't miss them when they leave soon....

              The new speaker unit has today been fitted and is so much better. Its got a huge PE unit in it which makes it as loud as the more usual buzzers. I don't think I'll have any problems at all hearing it whereever I am. Also much helped by where he placed it right above the lounge door so its right in the "echo" area of the hallway and mid point between all of the room doors rather than in a "dead" area. I may regret this if someone finds it at night but so far that doesn't seen to be a problem for this area so far...

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