The web is awash with all sorts of answers to similar-sounding questions, some with answers two or three years old which might as well be written on papyrus for all their relevancy to today.
So let me ask my own.
Here’s what I have now:
- 1 Google Nest Wifi Router
- 1 Sonos One speaker
- 1 crummy old wired doorbell chime
With these I can play music through my IPhone on the speaker via Nest WiFi, to which the speaker is connected. I can, sometimes, hear the crummy doorbell ring.
Now I would like to add an electronic doorbell/camera to this mix.
I am looking at the Google Nest Wired doorbell. Wired, so I don’t have to mess with batteries. I could care less if the existing chime worked. I could even disconnect the chime itself, since it isn’t always loud enough. I want the signal from the bell to connect to the Nest Router and from there to the Sonos speaker and chime over the speaker. I see a lot of content saying you can get the doorbell to ring through a Google speaker but I don’t want to buy another speaker just for that.
So my question is, if I buy a Google Nest wired doorbell will I be able to hear the chime through my Sonos speaker, or will I be descending down a rathole of confusion and frustration?
