Er.... Anyone bought a school bell system recently?

[MicrodigitUK]

Same one at the school I’m at now and one I used to work for.

[Sirbendy]

Our poor old caretakers have to periodically go around the site and make sure that all the clocks in the classrooms tell the same time. They get megapissedoff when daylight saving comes around I can tell you!

Same here. Not IT Though, or a few maths rooms...they've been replaced with cheapy atomic setters. No point in going for old "manual" clocks now, IMO.

[Zorro_Slot]

same here!

[laserblazer]

And ours. They must have a bloody good salesman

[stephenleak]

Why not sell your SMT on a trendy wireless one?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SCHOOL-HAND-BE...QQcmdZViewItem

[Scho-edu]

We’ve just bought a new system, I believe it’s called a “sounder”. It’s great because we can play different ringtones for different breaks; we can even create our own which the staff think it’s brilliant !

I’ve attached the link in case everyone is interested..
Select a bell

[Andrew_C]

And ours. They must have a bloody good salesman

Fecking right! That is a central heating timer! OK, it will do what it needs to do, but I doubt it does it nicely.

We don't have bells, very civilized, but few lessons actually end on time, which makes the boys late for the next lesson.

Unless the school is small physically, the significant cost would be in wiring to disparate buildings. It may be possible to do something clever with bells triggered by PCs but that would be bespoke and costly.

As I write, I'm having ideas. I've just bought a serial to TCP/IP device, and I wonder if the supplier might do TCP to relay... I'll get back to you when the catalogue is in front of me!