Wireless Caregiver Pager, FullHouse Smart SOS Call Button for Elderly Patient Personal Care in Home Alert System, 500+ Feet Range

As the heading says, this is a good product, although I've had it only 1 day and my house is small at 1300 sq ft for the main level. Here are some points that will help you use it, in random order. Instructions are in English but are inadequate for advanced setup. Test this for yourself in your house, before you put labels on it. It's radio, and it's not GUARANTEED to work in all cases. There is a disclaimer to this effect in the instruction sheet. It says don't use for life and death circumstances. Get an actual certified "medical device" in that case. You should test each button and receiver every month or two in my opinion. The remotes have LED's which should light up and, of course, the receivers should alert. I THINK you can replace the remote batteries but don't know for sure. I don't think the instructions mention it.I'll start by describing my pictures. I don't know if the order will be the same when this is posted.Pictures 1 & 2 - I've placed a call button in a 2" x 3" zip lock bag so I can put it in the shower. The lanyard exits the bag on the bottom then wraps around back and goes up top. There's tape front and back at top and bottom edges. If any water dribbles down the lanyard, it will drop down into the tub.Pictures 3 & 4 - Shows labels I put on the transmitter and receiver to number them.Picture 5 - Shows the buttons. These are counter intuitive to me. The small button is volume. It has 4 levels plus off. NOTE, it always comes back on after a power failure at what appears to be level 3. If you always want these to be softer or louder, you'll have to reset the volume on each receiver after a power failure. I don't like that, but I can live with it. I'll probably leave it at default volume. The large up / down button is to select one of 60 or so tunes. Apparently different buttons can trigger different tunes.If all you want is for the NEW remotes and receivers that came in the SAME box to produce a simple ding dong tone, mine worked right out of the box. If you want more complex setup, it gets a little tedious. In that case expect to spend a couple of hours setting it up and testing it. I have 4 receivers and 6 remotes. I'll share the procedure. The instructions mention having different buttons in different locations do different tones. I personally won't remember which is which so I have all receivers and buttons set to the same tone. But, as I said, I have a small house. There's only a few places I can be called from.Picture 6 is a mechanical tally counter that I had sitting around. It's handy for setup. You could also use an app on your phone or even a calculator set to add 1 every time you press equals.Picture 7 is a grid chart I made to track which buttons and receivers I've set up and tested. In the picture, I've set up and tested all 6 buttons with receivers 1 and 2 but not 3 and 4 at the time.In the instructions they mention an emergency mode. It took a while to figure it out. If you press and release the button, the configured receivers should alert with the selected tone. I would press for 1 second then release, rather than a quick click and release. If there are doubts as to whether all receivers go off, you could press and release 3 times for example. If you press the button for 10 seconds (the manual is wrong), the receivers emit a siren sound. That will continue until you press the volume button on each receiver.There is no easy way to tell what tone the unit is on so here's my method which could change if the design changes. When you plug in the receiver it defaults to a ding dong tone. I consider that the baseline tone. If I press the down button, it produces the siren tone. I consider that to be the end of the sequence. So, if I start on ding dong and press up, I click my tally counter once. When I hear a tone I like, I note the number on the counter. I want a tone that lasts a few seconds so I'm more likely to hear it. Some tones sound shrill to me. Some sound like they'd give me a heart attack if I hear it when I'm asleep. Some are too slow. It's a matter of preference. So, I went through the tones and noted a few that I liked. If you're over the half way point, you could count from the baseline backwards. Eventually I land on one specific tone number. Using the tally counter allows me to replicate the same thing on every receiver. So, as an example, say I want to use tone number 10 up from the baseline. Here's how to set it up.I recommend labeling each receiver and remote with a number if you know you're keeping the system. Don't munge it up then return it. So, my receivers are numbered R1, R2, R3, R4. My transmitters are numbered T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, T6. Plug in a receiver. It should default to the baseline tone. Press down once and you should hear the siren. Press up once to get back to ding dong. Reset your tally counter to zero. Press up once and click the tally counter once. This is tone 1. If you really like it, make a note of the number. Continue cycling up and making notes. Eventually choose the tone(s) you like. I'm assuming I'm using tone # 10.Unplug the receiver for 15 seconds and plug back in. It should again be at the default tone. Cycle up to tone 10 and verify it's the one you want. Press and hold the volume button until the receiver light turns on. Press the call button on the first remote. It should pair to the receiver, which should acknowledge the pairing. Press and hold the volume button on the receiver (again) until the receiver light turns on. Press the call button on the 2nd remote. It should pair. Do this for all call buttons that you want to trigger this receiver. Use your grid chart to tell which buttons have been paired to receiver 1.Once all the buttons are linked to receiver 1, test each button. Note the results on your grid chart. Now go through all this again with the buttons that you want to trigger receiver 2. Continue until all receivers are programmed and tested with all buttons. Deploy the receivers to their final locations. Then do some testing with the call buttons as far away as they're likely to be when in use. The instructions mention how to clear the programming from the receiver but I haven't tried it.I like the product, after 1 day, and I plan to keep it. I'll test it regularly. I don't like the change in volume after a power failure but I can live with it. I recommend running anything that's electronic and plugged in on a surge protector. For life and death situations get a certified "medical device" instead.Hope this helps you use this product.Ron

Works well when caring for an elderly loved one. Put one lanyard around her neck, and one on the floor next to the bed she would slide out of. Plenty loud, and seemingly great range throughout the house. Works well, and even has a panic function.

My mother who is 94 has been living with us for over a year. She fell a few times, luckily not injured but she can't get up on her own. I had to sleep lightly in case she fell going to the bathroom in the middle of the night and had a fall. Now, she has a call button on her walker, one in the bathroom and one by her bed. We have the receiver in the living room and in our bedroom so that if she does need help she just needs to push the call button. The receiver volume can be adjusted to what a person needs to wake up. Now I can sleep knowing that if something happens she will be able to let us know without difficulty. Great product to have if you are caring for an elderly parent. I don't know about the battery life yet but the batteries can be replaced. Great product! Well worth the small cost.

Works great but doesn’t reach as far as they say.

I bought this when my Mom moved in with us. We sleep on a different floor than she does and we needed a way for her to let us know if she needed help at night. She just has to press the button and we can hear the doorbell sound upstairs to alert us she needs help. A baby monitor was way to invasive in her life, this was a great alternative.