How do we bypass the mechanical chime so it rings on the ring chime?
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@Dianeramirez wrote:
How do we bypass the mechanical chime so it rings on the ring chime?
Just to clarify, you do understand that the mechanical house chime does Not need to be disconnected, in order for the Ring Chime sounds to function? If you are having an issue making your Ring Chime sound on your app or base station . . . on your phone app you should select āDevicesā from the main menu > select your Ring doorbell > āDevice Settingsā > āAlert Settingsā > āApp Alert Tonesā > and there you can adjust your Ring Chime Volume and Sound choices. Make sure the sound choice of āSilentā is NOT selected if you do want a Ring Chime sound. If you want the RIng Chime to sound, and itās not working, maybe you accidentally have it on the āSilentā choice.
Most of the posts that I see on the RIng Community forum ask how to make their mechanical house chime activate in addition to the Ring Chime sound on the apps and/or Ring Chimes. Their Ring Doorbell Alert Sound does goes off, but their wall-mounted house chime does not. For those people, chances are their later-model Ring Video Doorbell is on the factory default Chime setting of āNoneā (because the Ring company has no idea whether you have a mechanical or digital chime in your house already). In the phone App, from main menu select āDevicesā and go to āDevice Settingsā > āGeneral Settingsā. In āInternal Doorbell Settingsā select āDoorbell Chime Typeā and change from the default setting of āNoneā to either āMechanicalā or āDigitalā (depending on which type of house chime you currently have installed in your house). This will let the Ring doorbell sound on their wall-mounted house chime.
If you still want to bypass your wall-mounted house chime, I assume you will still want the transformer wires (attached to your Ring doorbell) to supply recharging electrical power. You can simply remove the cover off your mounted house chime, and disconnect the wire that powers that mechanical chime at the bell. Use electrical tape over the end of the disconnected wire, to ensure it doesnāt accidentally touch anything inside the house chime device. By disconnecting the wire at the chime bell, the transformer should still supply power to the Ring Doorbell outside. It simply wonāt activate the house chime.
I hope this information is useful to you 
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Ah, and just in case you are referring to making a sound on your Ring CHIME or Ring CHIME PRO devices, from the main menu select > āDevicesā > select your Ring CHIME device > āAudio Settingsā > and select āChime Alertsā to select which Ring device that you want the CHIME or CHIME PRO to should alert on AND you can select āChime Tonesā to select which audible sound you want to hear (both āRingsā and/or āMotionsā).
@Boone wrote:
@Dianeramirez wrote:
How do we bypass the mechanical chime so it rings on the ring chime?
I had another thought . . . since you used the words, ābypass the mechanical chimeā, I made me think there is a possibility that you have a Ring Video Doorbell Pro ? If you do indeed own the Doorbell Pro, then to bypass the mechanical chime is explained well in this video: