21012022, 23:08 Doorbell Phone ‘The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20200921112732/http: Home Weblog Photography —_—Projects /www.bryanzimmer.ne/Main/D... Bakelite tps web. archive.orgiweb/20200821112732%htpsww bryanzimmernebMain/Doarbell Phone.himl DE 200, wr21012022, 23:08 Doorbell Phone uld hi ly on a wall or other ver the new button ve to look c tuld have to be mounted in a retro way, and the phon ical surface. non-per janet Restore the phone You could really use any phone for this project, so don't worry if you can't get or don’t want the same model as mine. If you do get an antique bakelite phone, he @ are some basic steps for restoration. Clean your phone with a rag dampened in one of those y orange based cleaners. If the b environmentally frie elite is heavily worn, cracked, or sun bleached, you're out of luck. It’s pretty much impossible to restore bakelite in that condition. Trust me. If your bak: g, you might be Polishing it with antique snobs will ha way with ck shoe polish. As a last resort some people paint it black (I see a red door), but y at the mere mention of this. | say ifit's your last and you're mint condition’, go for it. Here's a good site on bakelite restoration not trying to resell the ph: The painted numbers on my dial were chipping badly model paint to touch them up a little. The black paint on the dial was wom just enough to look good but not ratty so I it was. The chrome (or nickel) on the dial was tami cleaned it with some generic metal polish that was white and smelled like ammonia. Don't rub too hard or you the plating, exposing the yellow metal underneath. so | used a toothpick and some white Testors ds might take o In the the DE 200 there's a giant capaci Capacitors go bad over the years and need to be replaced, and mine was to ring weakly. You can try to find an equiva for the phone, or go the route I did and just nnect the two incoming wires from the wall directly to the coils on the ringer by either soldering them or using alligator oli cord with a newer and longer one, nothing special, just dis IF (lab d “condenser’) inside. ve a schemati ps. | replaced the wall the old one, in the wires where the old ones ws strip the end of the new one, and s One of the plungers (the metal posts that pop up from under the handset when you pick it up) was missing so | found a metal collar and rivet at my local hard ment. You can see them re store and improvised a fairly close replac ft net in the picture bel sitting As long as the ringer works you can ignore any other electrical problems w need to use the dial or handset. It's possible that in a future version of this project we would want to use them because board (more on that later) has the capability, but for now we're ping it simp ih the phone, we don't the phone interface Mount the phone a renter like m If you're using a walll phone and yor dlord probably won't appreciate you drilling holes in her walls so you can mount the phone like a normal human being. Instead, try mounting it on the side of some shelves, cabinet, or other vertical surface r tps web. archive.orgiweb/20200821112732%htpsww bryanzimmernebMain/Doarbell Phone.himl an2vn112022, 23:08 Dosrbel Phone you own, You could get some strong velcro with a glue backing from your local hardware store and mount the phone to the cabinet. The only problem is that if you get tired of the phone you'll probably have trouble removing the velcro from the cabinet thanks to the glue | got lucky and found that my cabinet was held together with bolts going from the top down into the sides. | loosened one so that it stuck up about 1/4 inch from the surface and threaded a zip tie around it and through the mounting holes in the phone. Sure, it's not the prettiest or most elegant way of doing it, but it works and you don't really notice it unless you're right up next to it. In this picture you'll see how the phone is mounted, plus the rivet and collar | mentioned earlier. If you're able to fit all the receiver electronics | mention later inside the phone it will need to be mounted near a power outlet. If you put the electronics in an external box, the box will need to be near a power outlet while the phone can then be anywhere within reach of a phone cord connecting the two. If you have an ugly box you'll want a location out of the way so you can hide it in a cabinet or behind something Buy the doorbell Head over to your favorite local hardware store and buy the cheapest battery powered wireless doorbell they have. It seems they're all made by the same company and run about $12-§15. Make sure both the transmitter and = receiver (the bigger box without the button) are battery powered. If you can't find the one in the picture, Home Depot has them online here. ) Make sure both the transmitter and receiver are set to the same ID/security code with the little black jumpers inside both. The manual in the package can help. Right out of the box this isn’t a problem because they're both set properly by the factory, but you may want to change the code if your neighbor has a similar doorbell or yours seems to ring randomly. Build the new transmitter If you're not planning on modifying the transmitter you can skip this section. If you want to build a swell new transmitter like | did, read on. fer and remove the circuit board, Desolder the rs if you're feeling brutish Open the transmi pushbutton, or cut it off with wire cutt Head over to your favorite local electronic component store (assuming your area still has one) and pick out a pushbutton and light lens you like, The pushbutton should be a momentary single pole single throw (SPST), meaning it turns on a single citcuit/pole (SP) and only switches on and off (ST). By default it should be off and when you push the button it should turn on. The label on the package might show "Off (On)" which is what you want. If you don't have a store near you check out Jameco or Mouser. | like Jameco and Mouser because their search pages are easier to use than Digikey, and Jameco is located in the Bay Area. | like supporting local business and getting my stuff faster. The lens can be any sort of plastic or hips iweb orchive.ocgweb/20200821112732mhtp swe bryanzimmer:netMairyDoorbell Phone him sr21012022, 23:08 Doorbell Phone this LED. this site Hammered tps web. archive.orgiweb/20200821112732%htpsww bryanzimmernebMain/Doarbell Phone.himl an2vn112022, 23:08 Dosrbel Phone | spent hours looking for an easy and cheap way to ring a phone from a microcontroller like the Arduino. It's not as easy as you would think because you need to generate about 70 volts DC at 20 hertz to get the typical US ring style. Seeing as how the Arduino operates at 5 volts, some fancy analog electronic circuits would be in order, stuff way over my head, One circuit | found was one from 1998, and | didn’t know enough about electronics to figure out how to modify it for my needs. The other one | found was the Port-O-Rotary from one of my favorite electronics stores, Sparkfun. That one was so close, but also would have required lots of learning and tweaking, something | might have done if I had more time on my hands. Apparently not many people know how to ring a phone if you're not the phone company, because those were pretty much the only two sites | found. | was even to the point of considering putting a small DC motor inside the phone that would hit the bells at the right speed. One day, the clouds parted, a beam of sunlight shone upon my weary eyes, and | found salvation. A random post on some obscure electronics forum said searching for “ringing SLIC" (subscriber line interface card) might help, and boy did it ever. | found Silvertel, and they had exactly what | was looking for, a small, Sv powered, inexpensive board that would ring a phone. It will do more than that, but that's for another project. | went with their AG1170-85 instead of their other models because it supplies more power to the phone, | didn’t need an adjustable line impedance since I'm in the US, and | wanted as small a board as possible. The datasheet is here. | went with Silvertel because they were easy to find, their product did everything I needed it to and then some, they don't require you to buy large quantities, their support was responsive and knowledgeable, and the board only cost me $7! That was barely more expensive than the DIY solutions, and many times cheaper than the other commercial solutions. Note: I'm not a Silvertel employee, I don't own any of their stock, and they haven't given me any kickbacks (yet). | just like their product. Connect the AG1170, support circuit, and Arduino Connect all the Arduino parts according to the schematic. Make sure you set the Arduino power jumper below the USB connector to External so it gets its power from the 9 volt power adapter. You can use a breadboard for the support circuit if you're not into soldering. If you want something smaller, more permanent, and reliable pick up some prototyping board (some people call it perf board) and solder this baby up. Program the Arduino Open the Arduino sketch and upload it to your board. The sketch is here. The Arduino environment is here if you don’t already have it. tps web. archive.orgiweb/20200821112732%htpsww bryanzimmernebMain/Doarbell Phone.himl21012022, 23:08 Doorbell Phone Mount everything ‘As I mentioned a while back, if you're able to fit all the receiver electronics inside the phone it will heed to be mounted near a power outlet. If you put the electronics in an external box the box will need to be near a power outlet, while the phone can then be anywhere within reach of a phone cord connecting the two. If you have an ugly box you'll want a location out of the way so you can hide it in a cabinet or behind somethin Test Connect the Arduino to the wall power adapter. Push the button on the AG1170 support circuit to simulate the doorbell being rung from the transmitter. If the phone rings twice, push the button on the transmitter. If the phone rings two more times, you're in business. If the transmitter didn't ring the phone but the button on the AG1170 support circuit did, your problem is in the transmitter. If your phone is like mine and has bells in it you'll probably need to adjust them to get the right sound. The AG1170 doesn't have quite as much ringing power as the phone company, so you'll want to loosen the screws holding the bells, down so they ring more easily. Keep ringing the phone while tightening and loosening the screws to get your desired tone and volume. How does it work? So what is all this voodoo that rings a phone when you press a button? Pushing the button on the transmitter connects the circuit to the battery, lighting the LED and sending a signal to the receiver. The receiver gets the signal and rings what used to be its speaker. That speaker goes to an input (wir Pin) on the Arduino, The Arduino s Ise from the transmitter and gets the AG1170 ready to ring the phone by tuning on ringModePin. The Arduino turns one of the connections to the AG1170 (forwardReversePin) on and off 20 times a second (20 hz), which is the normal US phone ring style. The AG1170 amplifies this signal to 70 volts, which is what the phone needs to power its ringer coil. The Arduino rings the phone twice, then waits for someone to push the button again. ion now The Future The AG1170 has other features | haven't used yet, like detecting numbers dialed with a rotary phone and passing voice and DTMF tones to an external circuit. In other words you can interact more with the phone. Maybe when someone rings the doorbell you want to dial 1 to activate a relay to open the door, o dial 2 to open a trap door, or dial 3 to release the hounds. Maybe you want to put a microphone and speaker in your transmitter outside, and when you pick up the phone you can talk to the person before you open the door. | might eventually add those features, but | need to get a few other projects out of the way first. tps web. archive.orgiweb/20200821112732%htpsww bryanzimmernebMain/Doarbell Phone.himl err21012022, 23:08 Doorbell Phone Follow Up Owen Morgan writes: “| have good luck restoring Bakelite using the methods on the following website: http:/web ukonline,co,uk/freshwater/bakelitt htm Paste wax has been a winner for me, itis fairly gentle and doesn't contain any harsh chemicals.” Thanks to everyone who wrote in with their compliments! Do you like this project or have suggestions on how to make it better? Do you want me to build one for you? Do you need tutoring on Arduinos, programming, and basic electronics? Email me: btz at bryan zimmer dot net. tps web. archive.orgiweb/20200821112732%htpsww bryanzimmernebMain/Doarbell Phone.himl um