chime 2 - how many decibels?

[effleure]

I can't find any techincal specs for the Chime 2. In particular, how many dB is the siren (I'm hoping more than the 80dB for Chime)? Seems like a basic spec that should be reported..

[jguerdat]

I don't know of that spec but can say that either of the chimes is LOUD.

[StephenB]

FWIW, it'd be good if the db level was listed somewhere (maybe in the faq)

[effleure]

The predecessor's 80dB (presumably non-weighted and at 1 meter) isn't very loud as far as home alarms go (my base station's alarm is listed at 100dB and is just loud enough to induce startle, but I don't like having that target sign on my station!)

[jguerdat]

The siren feature for the chime is really just another sound that can be selected. If the desire is to have a louder siren, that would likely affect the normal chime sounds. Not a huge deal but also not exactly the use case.

[effleure]

There's no reason why a device's chime/melody volume would need to be the same as its siren.

Logically and marketing-wise, the device should be able to be used as a loud siren, akin to what the older base station has.