Customer Reviews

Honeywell RCWL330A1000/N P4-Premium Portable Wireless Door Chime and Push Button

5 star:		(104)
4 star:		(26)
3 star:		(8)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

I've only had this door chime for about a month. But, so far, it has worked flawlessly. I live on the second floor of a three family house and the range on this unit is great. The previous chime I had seemed to work only occasionaly.
The only odd thing that I noticed when reading the installation instructions was that they recommend not mounting the push button next to any metal objects. Since most houses have screen doors, this might be an issue. However, my house is aluminum sided with a screen door and the chime still works fine.

Some of the other reviewers referenced the provided directions as a waste. I would say you need a basic understanding of electronics to interpret but they are pretty straight forward. I purchased the doorbell unit, the upgraded black with gold plated door button and several door/window sensors. In all I purchased enough parts for 2 door bells and 4 door/window notifications. The product description provided by Honeywell does not tell you for every window or door that you wish to be notified is opened, you must purchase one converter AND one set of wired door contacts. This adds up fast, very fast. In any case, to the set up and performance of the unit. For now I have just set up the 2 doorbells and 1 door open notifier and the set up was fairly easy. From opening the packaging to setting up the door chimes, to mounting the (what I call) door notifier took me about an hour and a half and I played around with the unit allot before installing. Mainly checking out the door chimes but also reprogramming the provided push button and the additional black and gold one I purchased. What I thought was inventive and progressive with the unit is the door open notifier has its own notification aside from the provided door chimes and it sounds like a door open notifier. I think a couple of the door chimes are a bit hokey. I think they were running out of ideas. The unit comes with a volume knob which was an excellent idea on there part as this thing is loud with the volume cranked. The light that is installed in the unit is functional, bright and eye catching and in my opinion is a very useful feature for the hearing impaired. It flashes like a strobe light when the door bell is rung. Of the 6 programmable notifiers, each one has its own display with picture or the option of placing numbers in place of the pictures so when a doorbell is rung or door is opened you know visually what door bell is being rung and so forth. Once again another nice feature for the hearing impaired. I will say if you mount the unit on a wall where a doorbell is usually mounted (high up) the picture feature will not be very useful. With that being said the unit is not ugly and is about the size of a book AND stands on it own quite well. So not mounting it on a wall and just setting it somewhere is acceptable in my opinion. If you do decide to mount it on a wall, hardware is provided and is very simple. If you can hang a picture even somewhat straight, you can hang this unit. In conclusion Honeywell is synonymous with security (at least in my neck of the woods) and the doorbell buttons have the Honeywell name placed right on them which can't hurt in possibly conveying to a potential intruder your home is fully wired with a Honeywell Security system. In conclusion to my conclusion as I almost forgot the most important point. How is the signal? I believe it to be very good. Now I have not tested nor do I plan to test it to the 450ft working range so I cannot speak to this. What I will say is my furthest door is 40 plus feet away from the doorbell itself and the buttons signal must travel through 2 insulated 2x6 walls plus 2 more interior walls and it works perfectly. No delay to speak of. No repeat button pushing AND the buttons have a signal light on them so the user knows they have pushed the button. I highly recommend this unit. Thanks for the read and I hope this helps in your decision.

I tried at least three other brands/models before this. What wastes of money. Too quiet, too much interference, so many problems. On the other hand, this Honeywell model is loud, works all over my house across multiple floors and looks nicer than my old ones as well. Highly recommended to anyone who is sick of poorly-performing wireless doorbells.

Bought to replace an older wireless unit that did not have a "silence" function like this Honeywell (doorbell was near to sleeping infant's room)

First impressions were very good out of the...clam shell packaging (which I HATES btw...VERY dangerous stuff). Construction quality is probably a little above average, aesthetics are certainly way above average (imo), with a nice, clean, modern design.

Thoughtfully, they added mp3's of the chimes on the Amazon page so you can listen to see if any appeal to you. I can't imagine being stuck with a doorbell sound that drives you crazy.

Also of note is the sound quality of each chime. Very high bit rate mp3's probably. Very little to no distortion (depending on the chime and the volume), so I have to say I was impressed here. I knocked one star off because of only 6 options though. With MP3 compression and technology these days, no reason not to have 10 or more, or better still, the ability to add your own. Just a small nitpick though.

fyi for those considering expanding the system: I bought the expander and three door/window contacts thinking I could use one expander for all three...but nooo. Unless I am very mistaken, you have to buy an extender for EACH set of door/window chimes you want to install! That can be quite spendy if you are trying to cover all your doors and windows! Also, the instructions for the extender are HORRENDOUS but won't mark that off on this score of course.


PROS: Ability to SILENCE and have unit flash instead of ring. Volume control. 6 chimes, most are good, and very good to excellent sound quality. Design/construction is excellent. Exandibility to include a motion sensor and door/window chimes. Brilliant! Assignable chimes per location! Great! Value for what you get in this unit is really amazing imo. (I paid $39 I think)

CONS: Wished for even more chime options or ability to add my own. Expandibility is not that simple and may require electrical work.

Overall, highly recommended and if I could, would give this 4.5 stars instead of just 4

Just received, easy to use and set up! There is another version, same price, that Amazon is selling - this seems to be the more deluxe of the two for exactly the same price. I purchased the extra doorbell set, which I can choose to program with the same or a different chime. I will be purchasing the Honeywell Motion Detector and the Honeywell Wireless Door Contacts after the holidays to expand my little wireless alert network. I like that it has the option of expanding. Both of these devices can be programmed with this Wireless Doorbell Chime receiver. This unit also comes with the option of using a blue strobe light with or without the chime. And each device that is added can have its own chime if you desire. I've only had it a day, but so far it exceeds my expectations! Takes an additional 4 "C" batteries which are not included. The battery for the push bell is included. I'm happy with my purchase!

I did a lot of research before purchasing one of these and this is the best. It's flexible format and extra long remote range clinched it, but it also has a great design. It works flawlessly. I now have a door bell on my front and backdoor, both with different sounding chimes.

Honeywell RCWL330A1000/N P4-Premium Portable Wireless Door Chime and Push Button
I bought this based upon the excellent reviews here on Amazon. It was a smart buy and the review were right on. This item packs a lot of punch for the price. The fit, finish, and sound quality are excellent. It is easy to program it and seemed pretty instinctive.

I received this with the standard white doorbell push and used that for the shop. We also bought the brass finish doorbell pushbutton Honeywell RPWL302A1005/A Decor Wireless Surface Mount Push Button to match the trim on the house door glass.

Having been so satisfied with the set-up, we then bought the Converter/Extender/Pushbutton Honeywell RPWL3045A1003/A Wireless Premium Portable Converter/Extender/Push Button. This add-on device worked perfectly to tie in an existing driveway alarm. We hardwired this device to the 'normally open' contacts on our driveway alarm unit. Now when the driveway alarm gets a signal, it closes its output N/O contacts, which triggers the Honeywell extender device. The Honeywell extender then transmits the signal to the main Door Chime unit. So now we have three distinct tones set up on the main Door Chime: one tone for the house pushbutton, one for the shop pushbutton, and one for the driveway alarm system.

The stated range of 450' is probably line-of-sight only, though this hasn't been verified. When introducing walls into the distance, it goes down dramatically. We had it temporarily set up during house construction: It had trouble getting through about 50' of building, a couple walls, then across another 70' open-air, and then 3' around a building corner to a push button. Holding the pushbutton just 4' closer so that it had more line of sight to the building with the transmitter made the difference.

Testing it with everything in it's final location worked fine (through one wall and across 70' open air).

One small detail on the pushbuttons: The mounting screws provided have fat screw heads that do not fit properly in the case. I dug around and found screws with narrower heads.

I mounted the door bell push button about 300 feet away near the electric entrance down by the road. The chime unit is in the living room. I took particular care to mount the push button away from other metal/electrical components such as outdoor lighting, an electric fence charger control box, and an automatic gate opener. I tried mounting the push button close to these sources as well as in the vicinity of a heavy duty 3" thick vertical lamp-post pipe, and found it worked best and most reliably if I kept it (and its transmission signal) as far away from those sources as was practically possible. So far, my efforts at trial and error have paid off. The door bell works consistently and reliably as advertised at 325'. For extra-protection I mounted the push button itself is mounted inside a cross-section of 3" thin-wall plastic pipe to protect it from direct exposure to rain and the rays of the sun before attaching it to an outside fence rail. I powered the chime unit by an old 6-volt dc transformer I had lying around, thus eliminating the need for D batteries. The battery for the push button is a simple computer type battery, more widely available these days than the "23A" commonly used in similar but cheaper and less effective units.

This is about the 4th or 5th wireless door bell system I've purchased and so far the most expensive. Brings the mind the old adage about you get what you pay for. The others either never had the range they advertised or worked inconsistently or only for a short while. My experience tells me one reliable way you can evaluate electric door bells is by the battery that powers the push button. If its a common 23A (a small cylindrical 12 volt battery about half the size of the everyday triple-A (AAA) battery, it should be good for a distance of 100' and no more. It you need your push button to be further distant from the chime, go with something like this Honeywell or something with an advertised distance of 500' or 1000'.

we live on the fourth floor and i tried a couple other wireless doorbells from the hardware store and they failed miserably. our building isn't wired for a doorbell and this thing works flawlessly. best investment if you need a long range wireless doorbell. don't waste your time with the others!

I have had this product for almost three months. It works well. I have a front gate that I screwed the push button on. Unfortunately, I learned that you can't put the button on anytype of surface. I had to place some washers between the button unit and the metal gate surface to make the signal stronger between the button and chime units. I tried to place it on the stucco wall of my house, but that didn't work because again the button won't send the signal when it is mounted flush again the stucco or metal gate. I guess the signal from the button to the chime unit can be compromised by the surface (and thickness of the surface?) of where you're putting the push button. So after mounting the button on the metal frame of my gate with some spacers between the unit and mounted surface, I moved the chime unit near my front door, and the wireless unit worked perfectly. The chimes are loud and audible from my back yard even when I have my sliding doors and windows shut. The distance between my gate and front door is no more than 50 feet.