iChime CHIME-1 Doorbell

by iChime

Product Description

This iChime Doorbell replaces your current chime and gives you the choice of sounds to announce your visitors. Choose from the pre-programmed selections, record your own tune with the built-in microphone, record using iPod, CD Player, PC, or MP3 with line-in jack.

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 8 x 2.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00150LTFO
• Item model number: CHIME-1
• Batteries: 4 AA batteries required.
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,559 in Home Improvement (See Top 100 in Home Improvement)
  • #35 in Home Improvement > Electrical > Door Chimes & Bells

Customer Reviews

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Easy to install, April 9, 2009

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RK (Iowa, USA) - See all my reviews

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The installation was very easy. Be warned that the unit is not all that loud especially in a larger home with basement. Recording your own music to the unit plays back terrible. I tried to run music directly wired and as a recording unit. Both sound is unacceptable as a doorbell. BUT...it is fun to hear the different pre-recorded sounds. Also a lot of fun to change the sounds for holidays and special occasions. I guess the little kid in me wins out and I would buy it again just because it is fun.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Way cool!, October 13, 2010

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T. Nadeau - See all my reviews
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Expensive but way kool! I read about sound quality issues when recording your own sounds. I found that turning down the volume on the "Source" a little bit and turning the volume on the iChime all the way up worked great. If you blast a sound byte into the iChime at full volume of course it's going to be distorted when the iChime tries to do the same. You just have to turn the input sound volume down about 30% of full. Trial and error method worked like a charm and I found the "sweet spot" quickly. Now I hear the "Jetson's Doorbell" when someone is at the door! Now, if Amazon only sold the Jetson's push-a-button-get-a-sandwich machines! Who Hoo!

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This a great fun., February 29, 2008

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John J. Millerick - See all my reviews
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What a great product. On Halloween, when our doorbell is used most often, the kids go nuts! Scary sounds are great fun for little ones.

I do a standing Monday Night Football party and I recorded Hank Williams "...are you ready for some football!"

Everything from real door chimes, (wife's favorites), goofball phrases like "...there's someone at the door!" and cool tunes. I set it to cycle through selections so you never know what is next.

They're right, ringing my doorbell is no longer the same! Next season I will definitely record the Cal Bears Fight song just to tick off my Stanford friends!

This is a well done product, installation was a snap, I replaced my faded "ding dong" bell, same two wire interface as my 35 year old bell, my lighted doorbell button still worked! Does need batteries though but the manual says they will last forever.