Anybody had trouble doorbell ringing and nobody there?

our bell is a real bell activated by a wire, pulling on a large metal dropper- so no, it never rings by 'mistake'

As kids though- it was the sort of stuff we would get up to ;)

SpringyChicken

Ooh, this post brings back memories. lol

I bought a doorbell for my mother. Before taking it to her, I tested it out in my kitchen and tried all the (numerous) different chimes. Whilst doing this, from the kitchen window I spotted my next door neighbour opening her front door numerous times, looking around and then closing the door. I didn't give it much thought until reading the instructions, it advised to alter the frequency to avoid interference from other people's doorbells.

It sounds like one of your neighbours has a new doorbell.

Oh, SpringyChicken, your comment did make me chuckle ??

This happens to me occasionally, and it is quite concerning. However, I resist the urge to open the door on the assumption if anybody really wanted to see me they would call out as well.

We've got a Ring doorbell so we can see on our phone who is there, and decide whether or not to answer the door! Occasionally it gets set off by a pesky cat which sneaks up the side to do its business in our back garden.
However, I did used to suffer from the car alarm going off at random times, and eventually traced the culprit to a small spider which had been scuttling across the sensor gizmo inside the car.

Ours does this if interruption in electricity as plugged in to socket. Did you have any clocks flashing ie on cooker.

Try changing the batteries at both ends. An erroneous ring can indicate low battery power (like when a smoke alarm begins to bleep continuously). A door bell will ring as the temperature falls and drains the battery more

I’s say the battery door bell is the culprit. We had one, briefly,and it rang out at all hours ( driving the dog mad ) but had a ‘proper’ one wired in when the house was required.

Wireless doorbells sometimes do that. We had it for a while when someone else's bell was rung further down the road. Turns out they were on the same frequency. Also a low battery can do this, I understand.

I have occasionally been woken in the night because I hear the doorbell ring. I dash downstairs and no one is there. I came to the conclusion that it was part of a dream.

I’ll replace the battery too as it’s probably been in a while. Not interruptions to the electricity supply. Being in the country we have those quite often - usually after I have reprogrammed something such as the CH and have to do it all over again!

This happened to us and we realised that we and our neighbour over the rod had our wireless door bells on the same frequency. I changed ours (just look inside the box) and it ceased to be an issue.

Your doorbell is on the same frequency as a neighbour. Change the frequency in the bell push and the bell.

Our doorbell used to ring and nobody there! We finally realised it was every time the Out of Hours Dr service was in the road. It was their car two way radio system. Now if it rings and there’s no one there, we know one of the neighbours are ill !!

The weirdest thing happened to me on Monday. I was waiting for parcels when the doorbell rang. When I opened it there was no-one there and nowhere for a prankster to hide. I stood on the doorstep puzzling for half a minute, when I saw a red van approaching. Yup.It was the postman with my parcels. He laughed as he handed me my goods through the van window. I asked him if he'd rung the doorbell, but he hadn't.

Yes we did.
Bought one of those bells that had a unit that you could move around with you, even out into the garden , so you could hear the bell wherever you were.
We took time to choose the ringtone etc , fixed it onto the front door and , being the kids that we were, one of us rang the bell, while the other stood in different places with the unit to hand.
All went well, until we changed the ring - and then suddenly we realised that we could no longer hear the bell !
I then noticed that each time we rang the bell, that a neighbour in the close was coming out of their house and there was no one there - they had the same system as we did and as their door was within 150 metres of ours, our bell push was actually working their system!
So we changed the ringtone and it worked well again - until our doorbell started ringing at 11pm, 2am, 4.30 am and 7am!
We found out that the 7am ring was for someone across the road, that had called for a taxi to get to work!
No idea about the other times, but the bell etc was then chucked in the bin as would have cost as much as we paid for it to be returned !

J52

We had a wireless doorbell and this was always happening, apparently something to do with interference.
We gave up and put a wired one in.

The same thing happened to us.

Agree with bearl.
It happens with the smoke alarm,we change the battery and all is fine.

They are prone to this, and can be triggered by various things

SpringyChicken

Ooh, this post brings back memories. lol

I bought a doorbell for my mother. Before taking it to her, I tested it out in my kitchen and tried all the (numerous) different chimes. Whilst doing this, from the kitchen window I spotted my next door neighbour opening her front door numerous times, looking around and then closing the door. I didn't give it much thought until reading the instructions, it advised to alter the frequency to avoid interference from other people's doorbells.

It sounds like one of your neighbours has a new doorbell.

Not exactly the same but a “neighbour” (actually across the wide road and one door along IYSWIM) had the doorbell chiming but no one there. Several months went by then they noticed that whenever we had a visitor, their doorbell chimed as well.

Powerful stuff that wifi!

Yes, ours does this; I think it's people going by with mobile phones. Does your bell have a choice of ring-tones? Our does, and luckily the interference rings as one of the tones we don't use. So unless it rings the Big Ben chimes, we ignore it!

Sometimes when we use the fob for the garage door it not only opens the garage door but rings the doorbell as well.

I sometimes seem to hear the doorbell ring when I am just waking up, and I suppose the same thing might happen when I am on the point of falling asleep. I'm sure now it isn't real, but a very convincing auditory hallucination. I seem to be fully functioning in all other respects, so I don't worry about it. Other people I have spoken to have experienced the same thing.

It wasn’t an auditory hallucination as I was still reading my kindle.

This happened to us but fortunately during day turned out the batteries were low ,hope you get it sorted.

Anyone else thinking that the obvious answer is an old-fashioned door-bell?