Method and Apparatus Pertaining to Doorbell Chimes

A doorbell chime apparatus comprising:

• at least one doorbell-button interface;
• a doorbell chimes annunciator that is responsive to the doorbell-button interface;
• a mains-dependent power source that provides operating power to both the at least one doorbell-button interface and the doorbell chimes annunciator;
• a mains-supplemental power source that provides operating power to both the at least one doorbell-button interface and the doorbell chimes annunciator, at least when the mains-dependent power source fails to provide operating power thereto.

A method comprising:

• at a doorbell chime apparatus:
• detecting which of a plurality of doorbell buttons has been asserted, wherein the plurality of doorbell buttons comprises at least one wired doorbell button and at least one wireless doorbell button, to provide a detected doorbell button:
• identifying which of a plurality of candidate audible sounds was previously correlated with the detected doorbell button to provide an identified audible sound;
• rendering the identified audible sound audible to thereby provide an audible annunciation that uniquely indicates that the detected doorbell button has been asserted.