# Doorbell V2 ability to use chimes from v1

**URL:** <https://forums.wyze.com/t/doorbell-v2-ability-to-use-chimes-from-v1/305677>\
**Category:** Cameras\
**Tags:** video-doorbell-v2, support, android\
**Created:** [July 30, 2024, 3:00am UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/doorbell-v2-ability-to-use-chimes-from-v1/305677 "2024-07-30T03:00:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![carverofchoice](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/user_avatar/forums.wyze.com/carverofchoice/32/107068_2.png) [@carverofchoice](https://forums.wyze.com/u/carverofchoice)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 4:25am UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/doorbell-v2-ability-to-use-chimes-from-v1/305677/4 "2024-07-30T04:25:08Z")

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> [@Crease](#):
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> > [@carverofchoice](#):
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> > “Universal Chime” project
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> What is/was this?

> [@AMA with Wyze VP of Product, Steve McIrvin - 6/15/2022 1:00 PM Pacific](https://forums.wyze.com/t/ama-with-wyze-vp-of-product-steve-mcirvin-6-15-2022-1-00-pm-pacific/232666/5):
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> ## [Any plans to increase the volume for the home security system? Maybe add a chime?](https://www.reddit.com/r/wyzecam/comments/vd3qy3/comment/icie1b2/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)
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> > Yes, we’re actually working on a universal chime that can serve many of our products both as a speaker and potentially as a gateway for products that lack Wi-FI!

> [@Fix-It Friday - 2/18/22](https://forums.wyze.com/t/fix-it-friday-2-18-22/218123/59):
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> # 1. Wyze Sense Hub Siren Volume Lower Than Desired
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> Response:
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> The low volume is due to a hardware limitation. We’ve heard your feedback and are working on supporting Wyze Home Monitoring audio on Wyze Chime. This will allow you to decentralize the audio and have it in the rooms that you care about. We’ll share information about it when it’s ready!

There was also a project in development for a “loud siren” which may have been the same thing.

However, these were all canceled at the end of 2022 when people kept complaining that they doing other things besides focusing on their “camera” specialty…so they took that feedback and canceled almost all their other projects for a while, at least until they got profitable…which finally happened in Q1 2004. So now they may reanimate some of their canceled projects. I think this would be a good one to start with because it is camera-adjacent…in the sense that it works with the cameras in some way.

Basically, it would’ve been awesome to have a chime that could work with any Wyze product, and be used as a loud siren and be able to give internet to other devices. For example, they could’ve allowed the Lock Bolt to connect to that chime so it could have internet and do notifications and be controlled remotely. Or let my Wyze scale to connect to the universal chime so I don’t have to open my phone every time I want it to log my scale metrics. The scale could just go to the universal chime instead and upload the info to my Wyze data. They could have any number of sensors use the universal chime instead of a different hub for every device. They could let anything with Bluetooth, or Zigbee or WiFi or any number of protocols use the universal chime as a hub that supports lots of protocols. Maybe even let us do Text To Speech messages for announcements. For example, instead of having to use Google or Alexa, the Wyze Universal chime could announce when it detects someone enter my property, or when my pool gate is opened, or any number of things.

I’m advocating for this project to revived now that they are profitable and the complaints directed at them to stop making non-camera products have calmed down.

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