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  A Flexible Video Telephone Entry System

 

A video entry system for your home? Are you looking into video doorphone appliances as shown in illustration? Nice but might be very impractical! Unless you run a complete system with as many indoor video stations as you might have phones, which will severely strain your budget, you will quickly wish you knew a lot better as soon as you start using it.

With one or two indoor video stations, there will be times when you are away from these locations and wish to be able to talk to an arriving guest and release the door eventually. It will sure happen more often than you wish. Firstly, you might not even hear the intercom signal from the remote indoor station. Second, if you do, you'll find yourself rushing to the station so you may attend to the guest in a timely fashion. This will also happen more often than you wish with only one or two indoor video stations installed.  If you  have a patio, backyard, how about picking the calls from guests standing at your door while you are there? Also when you are on the phone somewhere else in the home, that's one of the times that you will certainly not hear a possible guest call from your video intercom station. Whatever you do, you can never put your guests in front of two call buttons! They won't know which one to hit. Therefore for your door monitoring system to be practical, you need to be able to readily hear door alerting tones from anywhere in your home, whether you are on the phone or not, and pick a handset for a reply anywhere you might be. See how.