Booth1 Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 Door bell question how does one go about hooking up the door bell to a control4 system is there a certain door bell do I have to rub cat 5 Need helpThanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin L Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 if its an existing door bell you would want to run the button of the door bell to the contact input on a controller or contact relay extender and then hook the transformer and door bell unit to a relay on a controller or contact relay extender. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mharshany Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 If you go the Card Access route, they have a doorbell / phone line kit which is easy to install. Just splice into the low voltage doorbell power as is well layed out in the instructions, add the Elk device and run it to a wireless switch and it is up and running.Similar install for phone events.Installed myself in relatively short order. Had dealer install drivers/connections. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanE Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 Just as an FYI...The reason you'd want to go with CardAccess' solution instead of just splicing in your doorbell wires into a contact input on a controller is because splicing in the wires directly to the controller won't work if you have any lighted doorbells in the system.The ELK module CardAccess sells as part of their phone / door sensing kit takes care of that issue.RyanE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin L Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 Just as an FYI...The reason you'd want to go with CardAccess' solution instead of just splicing in your doorbell wires into a contact input on a controller is because splicing in the wires directly to the controller won't work if you have any lighted doorbells in the system.The ELK module CardAccess sells as part of their phone / door sensing kit takes care of that issue.RyanEyou could always swap out the bulb with a 12 volt LED :D:D:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanE Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 you could always swap out the bulb with a 12 volt LED :D:D:DDoes that solve the issue?I would think that there would still be current flowing even with a 12V LED.RyanE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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