Newhouse HardwareCHM2 Door Chime, White

Her is my story: When I bought my house, the previous owners had already installed a Ring doorbell. We transferred "ownership" and it worked great. In the meantime, we installed a SimpliSafe security system that we had brought from my previous home. last month, I decided to bite the bullet and switch to the SimpliSafe doorbell so all of my cameras can be in one app and save the Ring annual fee. But the tech-craziness then began. The SimpliSafe worked beautifully, but would NOT ring my doorbell's chime even though Ring did. I tried everything. Multiple phone calls with SimpliSafe support (worthless), changed the transformer to a more powerful 16V 30VA. Nope. So, I bought this Chime out of desperation. BAM, it works! So, if you want to use a SimpliSafe doorbell, this doorbell will work with it. One note: You still have to use the "chime connector" that SimpliSafe includes. If you don't, while this doorbell will "Ding", it makes a noticeable humming sound, which can't be good.

This door chime was relatively easy to install. The design is clean and minimal which is what we were looking for. The chime sound is clear and it seems to function reliably every time. Great, straightforward solution for a basic door chime.

Great replacement for an old chime or new install. Wish it was louder, but that's just me.

Nice mechanical chime. I replaced an antique door bell that had final given up. Wired it in series with the transformer and then connected a nest doorbell puck across the chime and transformer terminals on the chime and it worked perfectly. I’ll get to the touch up painting as soon as someone looks up and says something :)

Our old doorbell chime had been sounding so sad, but since it still worked I just had it on my list of tasks to have our handyman do when the list was long enough to call him out for.I finally got tired of hearing that sad dong (it lost it's "ding" a long time ago) and ordered this. I called our handyman and he was away on vacation.I decided to give it a shot myself.It took me longer to unbox the chime, bring the ladder into the house and grab my screwdriver and wire stripper (I didn't even need that) than it did to swap out the old chime with this new one.It seriously just took the time to undo the 2 wires from the old chime, mount the new chime to the wall, then attach the wires to the new chime. I'm not sure if it matters, but when I took the old chime down, I took note of which wire went to the "trans" connector and which wire went to the chime connector. It was as simple as then just connecting those marked wires to the new chime.The faceplate cover just snaps on and has a clean, low profile and unobtrusive shape to it.My quick and easy swap-out was helped by the fact that the footprint of the old chime was nearly the same as the footprint of this new chime, so no patching or painting touchups were needed.The chime is clear, has a very pleasant tone, is loud enough to hear, yet not glaring or harsh.Nutshell . . . I am so happy with the new chime, and very proud of myself for doing this myself too.

Replacing my old chime with this one was easy. The chime is old-fashioned in its design but the tune sounds pretty good. I reused my existing push button but had to remove the diode as it would otherwise constantly 'pushing'. I am not sure if the diode has gone bad or not. But removing it solved the problem.I just wish there was a way to control the volume. It's a bit loud for my taste. The cover design is also very poor. It's flimsy, and takes lots of cajoling to replace it after the installation of the base is done. Actually I was done with cajoling and had to force it really hard to attach it in the end. And why in the world do you need FOUR screws to fasten this little device to the wall?

I currently have a digital doorbell chime, and within the past couple months, it stopped working when people would physically ring the doorbell. However, it would randomly ring at odd times of the night. It only rang after it got dark out, so I’m wondering if maybe there is some change in the humidity affecting the digital ringer. Anyways…I thought it was a problem with my doorbell security system (the button/camera), maybe alerting me that the battery was low, but when I unscrewed the doorbell, it was hard wired. I called the security company to come fix it. They arrived with a brand new button, installed it, and couldn’t get it to work with the digital ringer. The installer then told me that sometimes digital chimes don’t like to work with camera doorbells, and recommended this very same chime to me. Like he physically looked it up on my phone and handed it back to me. Dude was cool. He let me keep the new camera doorbell as well, even though the problem is with the chime.He then explained that sometimes when you ‘reboot’ digital chimes, they take a few hours to start working correctly again. I didn’t think that was actually true at all, but it was. The next day, I got a person who pressed the doorbell, and the digital chime worked flawlessly. It has been working since.Not sure why I wrote that whole story out with no actual review of the product (aside from the specific recommendation from the tech) but I did.I haven’t returned this mechanical chime because I’m pretty sure the digital one will go out again, in which case I’ll install this one. It seems well-packaged, very sturdy, good quality, and I’m not particular about the volume level, so I’m sure this will work just fine.

Nice bell and nice sound. Worked as described!Simple wiring and easy install.