Door Chime, METAK Wireless Door Open Contact Sensor Alarm with 500 FT Range, 58 Chimes and 5 Volume Levels for Business/Store/Home/Office When Entering, 1 Transmitter + 1 Plug-in Receiver

This has been a great addition to my home. I purchased them because I was a full-time caregiver to a loved one with dementia. Now, I like the peace of mind, knowing when someone opens a door upstairs or downstairs. They were easy to install and are very functionable. One thing I would recommend before installation, is that you have extra double sided mounting tape available. Two of mine did not adhere well, so I simply replaced the tape. I live in a very humid area so I would imagine that was the issue.

Easy installation and working well

We’ve been using this door chime at work for the front lobby, and it’s been fantastic. The 500 ft range gives us plenty of flexibility to place the receiver wherever we need, and it reliably alerts us whenever the door opens. The 58 chime options let us pick a sound that’s noticeable without being annoying, and the volume control is great — we keep it loud enough to hear throughout the lobby. Setup was simple, the sensor and receiver came pre-paired, and installation took just a few seconds. The unit feels sturdy enough for daily use, and the battery in the sensor lasts a long time. It’s been a real help for monitoring visitors and deliveries without constantly watching the door. Highly recommend for any office, shop, or reception area where you need a reliable, easy-to-use alert system.

5 stars for price point and ease of use, 3 stars for instructions and hard(ish) to use mute feature. This unit is very simple and does indeed work to alert you when a door is opened. Unfortunately, the instructions are oversimplified and sorting out things like tone and volume are not intuitive. Below I listed what I learned in the process and hope it helps the next buyer. Setting it up took way longer than it needed to, and a lot of trial and error; but, the finished install works great and I would buy again. STARTING: When you get it, you just plug it in. The chime noise comes out of the unit at the plug, so consider where you want to hear the chime when choosing where to plug it in (and it has to be within 500 ft. of the door you're monitoring). TONE: There are only two buttons on the unit. (1) The tone button, which is marked with music note icon; and (2) the volume, which has a sound icon. Note which is which before you plug it in (they are hard to see, and if you’re plugging it in behind or under something like I was, even harder). To adjust the tone you quick press the tone button, once for each tone. What the instructions do not tell you is that to get to the next tone you have to press it again before the current tone ends, otherwise it just plays the same tone again and you may think it's not working. When you find a tone you like, you can just stop - there is nothing more you need to do to set to that tone. There are 58 tones to chose from, from simple chimes to melodies. If you want to go back to one you heard a few tones ago, can go in reverse order by holding the tone button down for a few seconds until you hear a beep. VOLUME: Similar to the tone, you short press – and need to do so before the tone ends. There are 5 levels. From mute, it goes up through the levels, then makes a two-beep sound, then goes back down. It's a bit of a hassle to run through them and get back to mute every time you want to adjust or mute. FYI - In my attached video the tone is very low and may be hard to hear. I have it set to a lower volume and was about 15 ft away from the plug in unit. It does go up loud enough to be really annoying if/when in a quiet space. BURGALAR ALERT: You *might* be able to use this as an intruder alarm. There are various tones and volumes, some are long and definitely loud enough to wake one up or hear through normal volume music/regular house noises *IF* the unit is plugged in near you. It does not, however, have a screaming loud alarm like, for example, window glass break sensors do. The maximum distance from transmitter to plug in unit is 500 ft., so you likely can't put the transmitter on one side of your home and the plug in unit (chime sounder) on the other side, unless your home is smaller. So if you live in a studio, it would absolutely work, but if you live in a 2-story home and would need to hear it sounding from downstairs, no way. MUTE: My one gripe about this unit is that's it's not easy to get to mute. Mine is plugged in behind a dresser and I have to reach back there, the press the button repeatedly until cycles to mute - and I'd likely go through that a few times because with the needed quick press it’s easy to miss stopping on mute. For my purpose I want to be able to turn it off and on daily. I would have paid for an upgrade for a remote that switched it off, or an app, or even just an on/off button or toggle on the unit. Unplugging it resets things, so that's not a good option. As a hack, I used command strips to put it up and I just pull off the small magnet to disengage. PAIRING: It comes paired, you just pull off the battery tab and it works. There are instructions for pairing, (to be used if you have multiple devices or I guess if it un-pairs for some reason), but on mine it wasn’t necessary. Just FYI - this is not a smart device, it pairs only from the unit to the transmitter, not to your phone. For the money that's fine, but with all the tones and features advertised one mistakenly might think it does. INSTALLING THE TRANSMITTER: I could not install as pictured because of my door trim. Easy enough to fix, I just put the large part of the transmitter on the door and the small magnet part on the edge of the trim (see picture). I also used velcro strips instead of the included adhesive, for easy removal of either side of the unit. FYI - the transmitter has to be very close to the magnet to work (1 cm), and you need to ensure the transmitter and magnet are facing each other the right way (there are marks on it to indicate, and you can play with it before you install - the instructions do cover this part).

Worked great. Tolerant of fairly decent distance between the sensors. My door frame didn't allow for horizontal mount so had to mount vertically in double doors. However, since the distance between the sensors can be more than I expected, it worked fine. Read instructions on how to avoid listening to entire sound options when choosing. Operation a bit cryptic but works. I used the default ding-dong out of the box. Ding-dongs twice when opening and zero when closing. Would buy again.

The door chime was easy to set up and works as expected. The sound is clear and loud enough to hear from another room, which is helpful when you have a baby. I like that there are multiple tone options. The design is simple and compact. So far, it’s been reliable with no connection issues.

Great product. Works exactly how I expected it too. Works great in our clinic.

Very pleased with these door alarms. I put them on each of our exterior doors (2 sliders and 2 regular doors) and one on my toddlers bedroom door. Install was very easy as they just stick via adhesive to the door and door frame. I love that the volumes can be adjust easily, and that they all come pre set so you do not have to sync any of the pieces together. In total it took me about 10 minutes to set all of it up. My only wish is that there were more options for sounds that were just a single chime or single tone. Most of the chimes are long and in a house with kids going in and out it can be a little annoying, but there is one chime ( its about 6 clicks in when going through the chimes) that sounds like a doorbell and that is the simplest one so that is the setting I used and it is just enough to get my attention without being annoying. Pretty much exactly what I was looking for, since I have 2 young kids and a pool in our yard I wanted the extra security of knowing if they were going outside, or leaving their bedroom in the middle of the night. I do wish there was a way to program one door to have a different sound then the rest. If it’s able to do it the directions were not clear on how to set this up.

Great product but came with USA plug with no adaptor not a huge deal but when delivering to Australia it would have been good to use out of box.

Is it possible to set the receiver to flash continuously until the transmitter and magnet are side by side ?

Lo recomiendo mucho, muy buen timbre, buen sonido, y cuenta con varios tonos.