Well, you need to somehow get the iPhone to recognize the doorbell press. Generally this would require some kind of wireless networking either Bluetooth or WiFi but if the current doorbell is older than 10 years there is little chance that it has this technology so you would need to either replace the doorbell or find something that listens specifically for the doorbell and then communicates to your monitor iPhone device. Since you are indicating that there is quite a bit of ambient noise in the environment I would expect that the ability for a device to isolate a doorbell chime would be almost as difficult as it is for you.
So I don’t think there is a easy way to jury rig your spare phone into the gateway between your doorbell and other phones in the house. So: other possibilities: 1. Upgrade the door bell. If you want it to communicate with a iPhone there are a few things out there, but I have no idea what accessibility is available on any of them. 2. Look at your Rogers Home security plan. I would expect they are required to provide reasonable accommodations so could cost less than finding a feature not through a service provider, and since they see this as a way of locking you into there Cable, Phone, and/or Internet services the cost are lower than with traditional home security systems. I believe their systems will communicate with your iPhone and will also have different alerts for different events. Also, I was not implying that you were deaf / blind but that deaf / blind solutions might be a direction to look at. I’m sorry if I offended you. HTH, Jonathan -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: macvisionaries+modera...@googlegroups.com and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
