2nd Gen Wired Nest Doorbell INDOOR Mechanical Chime

[julesAI]

We installed our Doorbell four months ago. The doorbell was working with our mechanical indoor chime. The indoor chime worked for perhaps a couple of months before  the indoor chime stopped working. Everything else continued to work (camera recording, wifi, notifications, and such). 

I read on a thread in this community that many people had solved this exact problem by upgrading their transformer from 16V 10VA to 16V 20VA.  I had our electrician come and check the wiring (it was good, he said), and install a 16V 20VA transformer. YES, now our indoor mechanical chime works flawlessly.

Thank you to those who posted about this issue elsewhere. Because of you, our problem was resolved.

I hope, too, Google adjusts their specs or makes an official suggestion to upgrade the transformer from the alleged minimum of 16V 10VA.

Cheers all. 🙂

[MplsCustomer · Accepted solution]

@julesAI 

This seems to be a common problem with both the old and new Google Nest doorbells. We upgraded to a 16V 30VA transformer several years ago in order to get our second Nest Hello Doorbell to chime.

[julesAI]

Yes, I believe you pointed out this solution in one of the threads I read. Thank you! It's such a relief to have the doorbell work properly.

[EmersonB]

Hello everyone

@julesAI, thanks for reaching out and for getting back to us with your update. We're glad that it's resolved now. We’ll consider this one complete so let us know if you have other questions or concerns as I will be locking this after 24 hours. Feel free to start a new thread and we'll be happy to help.

I appreciate the help, MplsCustomer.

Best,

Emerson