# BuzzMeBro

> BuzzMeBro gives an apartment its own local phone number so the building buzzer rings
> everyone who lives there instead of one person. A visitor presses the unit in the lobby,
> every resident phone rings at the same time, and whoever is free answers and presses the
> digit that opens the door. There is nothing to install: a buzz arrives as an ordinary
> incoming phone call.

## About

- Product: BuzzMeBro, $9.99 per month or $95.00 per year, billed per apartment rather than per person.
- Free trial: new customers get their first month free (card required, nothing charged until it ends, a text reminder a week before, cancel before then to pay nothing).
- Rings up to 4 phones in one apartment simultaneously.
- Operates from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Availability of a local number is checked at signup.
- The problem it solves: apartment entry panels store exactly one phone number per unit.
- Privacy: customer data is never sold, rented or licensed, and never used to train AI models. If the company is ever sold, all customer personal data is deleted before the sale, so a buyer never receives it. BuzzMeBro shows no ads, runs no ad or cross-site tracking and no tracking cookies, counts page visits anonymously, and does not record calls.

## Guides

Practical, vendor-neutral guides to apartment buzzers and intercoms. Every page below is
available as markdown by appending `/index.md` to its URL.

### Getting your buzzer to ring more than one phone

- [What does it cost to make your buzzer ring more than one phone?](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/cost-to-make-buzzer-ring-more-than-one-phone): Every way to get a buzzer reaching more than one person, what each costs you a month, and the costs that never show up on a bill.
- [Can my parent’s apartment buzzer ring my phone too?](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/parent-apartment-buzzer-ring-my-phone): For the grown child who lets in the caregiver, the pharmacy delivery and the plumber from across town. How to be on a parent’s buzzer without taking it over.
- [How to Make Your Buzzer Ring Everyone in the Apartment](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/buzzer-ring-everyone-in-the-apartment): One buzz and every phone in the apartment rings at the same time. What to change, what to give your building, and where the free routes fall short.
- [How to add more than one phone number to an apartment buzzer](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/add-more-than-one-phone-number-to-apartment-buzzer): A buzzer stores one number per unit. How to make that one number ring every phone in the apartment at once, plus the free workarounds and where each one fails.
- [How to add a roommate to your apartment buzzer](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/add-roommate-to-apartment-buzzer): The building can only store one number, so adding a roommate means changing what that number rings. Four ways to do it, and what each costs.
- [Can an apartment buzzer ring two phones at once?](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/buzzer-ring-two-phones-at-once): The lobby panel dials one number, but that number can ring two or more phones together. The ways to set it up, and which ones still open the door.

### Buzzers in Toronto

- [Converted houses: the Annex, Kensington and the student belt](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/annex-converted-house-buzzer): A Victorian split into five units has whatever entry system was added when it was converted. What is on your porch, what the City requires, and who changes it.
- [Buzzers in Liberty Village](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/liberty-village-condo-buzzer): Liberty Village condos and lofts run the same lobby panels as the rest of Toronto. What the concierge does not cover, and what to ask property management for.
- [New to Canada? Your buzzer probably cannot reach your phone](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/newcomer-to-canada-apartment-buzzer): A lobby buzzer often dials only local numbers. If you kept your number from home, nothing rings. How the buzzer works here and how to fix it in your first week.
- [Buzzers in Scarborough apartments](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/scarborough-apartment-buzzer): Some older Scarborough buildings run intercoms that cannot call a cell phone. How to tell which kind your building has, and exactly what to ask your landlord for.
- [Do you need a 416 number for your Toronto buzzer?](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/toronto-416-647-437-buzzer-number): What a Toronto lobby panel actually needs from the number it dials, why 416, 647, 437 and 942 all work the same, and when a 905 number does and does not.
- [The buzzer checklist for moving into a Toronto apartment](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/toronto-apartment-move-in-buzzer-checklist): Four things to sort out about the buzzer in your first week in a new Toronto apartment, before the first delivery arrives and before the old tenant answers for you.
- [Basement apartments and secondary suites: the buzzer question](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/toronto-basement-apartment-buzzer): A Toronto basement unit usually has no lobby panel at all, which changes the question entirely. What you actually have, and what is worth doing about it.
- [Your Toronto buzzer is not calling your cell phone](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/toronto-buzzer-not-calling-my-cell): Seven reasons a Toronto buzzer never reaches your mobile, in the order worth checking, and how to tell which one you have without booking a technician.
- [You moved to Toronto and kept your old number. Now the buzzer will not call it.](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/toronto-buzzer-out-of-province-number): Kept your 604 or 902 number when you moved to Toronto? Many lobby panels only place local calls, so your buzzer may never reach you. Here is the fix.
- [Changing the number your Toronto condo buzzer calls](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/toronto-condo-buzzer-change-number): Who to email, exactly what to write, and how to check the change actually happened rather than trusting the confirmation. For Toronto condos and rentals.
- [Condo, rental tower or walk-up: what your Toronto buzzer can do](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/toronto-condo-vs-walkup-buzzer): Who changes the buzzer number, what the City requires and what is possible in a Toronto condo, rental tower or walk-up, and what you can do yourself in each.
- [Your food keeps getting left in the Toronto lobby](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/toronto-food-delivery-buzzer): What Toronto delivery couriers are told to do when nobody answers, what to put in your delivery instructions, and how to make the buzz reach someone who is home.
- [Is your Toronto landlord responsible for the buzzer?](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/toronto-landlord-responsible-for-the-buzzer): Where a broken entry system sits in an Ontario tenancy and under Toronto bylaws, how to put the request in writing, and the difference between a repair and a change.
- [How Toronto roommates share buzzer access](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/toronto-roommate-buzzer-access): Only one roommate’s phone rings when someone buzzes? Four ways Toronto roommates share the buzzer, what each one costs, and the one that ends buzz me up texts.
- [Buzzers in Toronto student rentals](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/toronto-student-rental-buzzer): Four people, a twelve month lease, and a buzzer pointing at whoever moved in first. What to do about it near U of T, TMU, York and George Brown.
- [Buzzers in Markham, Richmond Hill and Vaughan](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/york-region-condo-buzzer): York Region has its own local calling geography and a lot of newer towers. What that means for the number stored against your unit, and how to change it.

### Buzzers in Vancouver

- [Burnaby apartment buzzers: Metrotown, Brentwood, Edmonds, Lougheed and SFU](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/burnaby-apartment-buzzer): Renting near Metrotown, Brentwood or SFU? Who changes the Burnaby Enterphone number, why roommates share one line, and how to ring every phone in the suite.
- [The Enterphone request form: what to write in each box](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/enterphone-request-form-vancouver): BC stratas update your lobby buzzer through an Enterphone form. What each box asks for, which number to give when several people share a suite, and how to test.
- [How to use an Enterphone: the visitor side and the resident side](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/how-to-use-an-enterphone): Using a BC Enterphone from both ends: how a visitor finds your suite and calls up, how you answer and open the door, and what to do if it never rings.
- [Vancouver apartment buzzers: why the Enterphone rings one phone, and how to ring the whole suite](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/vancouver-apartment-buzzer): In Vancouver the lobby buzzer is often called the Enterphone, and it calls one number per suite. Why it rings one phone and how to get the whole suite on it.
- [Buzzers in Vancouver student rentals: one Enterphone, four students](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/vancouver-student-rental-buzzer): Students near UBC, SFU, Langara or BCIT share one Enterphone number per suite, often from another province or country. Who to ask, and how to ring every phone.
- [Buzzers in the West End, Downtown, Yaletown and Coal Harbour](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/west-end-vancouver-apartment-buzzer): Older West End rental towers and downtown condos rented out by owners handle the lobby buzzer differently. Who changes your number, and which numbers work.

### Living with other people

- [Buzzer access for a subletter or a short stay](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/buzzer-access-for-a-subletter): Four months, then it has to end cleanly. Why putting a subletter’s number in the panel is the version you will regret, and what to do instead.
- [Can two people be on an apartment buzzer?](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/can-two-people-be-on-an-apartment-buzzer): The panel holds one number per unit, but two or more people can still get every buzz. The one place a second person can be added, and how to set it up.
- [Letting somebody in when you are not home](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/let-a-guest-in-when-you-are-not-home): Buzz in a guest, cleaner or technician while you are away. What works from somewhere else, what only looks like it will, and how to answer the buzzer from work.
- [How to take someone off the buzzer](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/remove-someone-from-the-buzzer): Whether it takes minutes or a written request to your building depends on what the lobby panel stores. Both routes, keys and fobs, and what to do if it is urgent.
- [Your roommate never answers the buzzer](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/roommate-never-answers-the-buzzer): Before it becomes an argument, check the phone settings that stop a buzzer call from ringing. Several of them look exactly like being ignored.
- [When your roommate works nights and the buzzer wakes them](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/roommate-works-nights-buzzer): A shift worker on the panel gets buzzed at 11am about a parcel that is not theirs. Why Do Not Disturb is the wrong tool, and what to do instead.
- [Sharing the buzzer without handing out your phone number](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/share-buzzer-without-giving-out-your-number): A housemate, a subletter or a partner’s kid needs to let people in. How to give them buzzer access without anyone’s personal number ending up in the lobby panel.
- [Four people, one buzzer: the shared house problem](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/shared-house-one-buzzer-four-people): At four housemates a one-number buzzer fails on a schedule you can predict. What a shared place should put on the panel, and the phone limit worth knowing about.
- [Who should be on the apartment buzzer?](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/who-should-be-on-the-apartment-buzzer): A household decision that is easy to make by accident on move-in day. The four rules worth agreeing on, and why picking one person is the option that ages worst.

### Your buzzer and your data

- [Could your buzzer app’s data end up training AI?](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/buzzer-app-data-and-ai-training): A privacy policy that never mentions AI has not ruled it out. How user data reaches AI training, what Canadian guidance expects, and the words to search for.
- [How to check a buzzer app’s privacy policy in five minutes](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/how-to-read-a-buzzer-app-privacy-policy): Six searches that tell you what a buzzer app can do with your phone number and address: selling, partners, advertising, AI, and what happens if it is sold.
- [What a buzzer app knows about you, and why it is worth more than you think](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/what-a-buzzer-app-knows-about-you): A buzzer app holds every phone number in your home, your address and unit, and a log of when your door opens. Here is what that adds up to and who wants it.
- [What happens to your data when the app you use gets sold](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/what-happens-to-your-data-when-an-app-is-sold): When an app is bought or goes bankrupt, your data can go with it. What Canadian law allows, what past cases show, and the privacy policy clause to look for.

### How apartment buzzers actually work

- [What is an apartment buzzer called? Every name for the lobby panel](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/what-is-an-apartment-buzzer-called): Buzzer, intercom, enterphone, entry phone, telephone entry system. What each name means, which one your building uses, and the one to search with.
- [Who pays for apartment buzzer calls?](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/who-pays-for-apartment-buzzer-calls): The building pays for the call the lobby panel makes, which is why many panels only dial local numbers. What that means for the number your building stores.
- [How to buzz someone in to your apartment from your phone](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/how-to-buzz-someone-in): Answer the buzzer call, talk, press the door digit, hang up. How to find the right digit for your building, what to do if it fails, and buzzing in from away.
- [What is a buzzer code? The three things people mean by it](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/what-is-a-buzzer-code): A buzzer code can mean the number a visitor dials, your unit number, or a code that opens the door. How to tell them apart and how to find your own.
- [What Pressing 9 Does on an Apartment Buzzer](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/what-pressing-9-does-on-an-apartment-buzzer): Pressing 9 on an apartment buzzer plays a touch tone the lobby panel is listening for. Here is what the tone is, why 9, and why it is the weak link.
- [How apartment buzzers actually work](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/how-apartment-buzzers-work): From someone pressing your unit in the lobby to the door unlocking: every step in the chain, what can break at each one, and why it is all just a phone call.

### When the buzzer does not work

- [The intercom handset in your apartment is broken: who fixes it](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/apartment-intercom-handset-broken): A dead or crackling intercom phone on your wall is a building repair in Ontario and BC. How to report it, what to ask for, and how to get by meanwhile.
- [The buzzer call drops the moment you answer](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/buzzer-call-drops-when-i-answer): You pick up and the lobby call is already gone. The five usual causes, from a short ring window to Wi-Fi calling, and which ones you can fix yourself.
- [Your buzzer works for some visitors and not others](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/buzzer-works-for-some-visitors-not-others): Friends get through and couriers do not. Often it is the code they key in, not the panel. How to find the gap and close it in one message.
- [You can hear the visitor, but they cannot hear you](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/visitor-cannot-hear-me-on-the-buzzer): One-way sound on a lobby buzzer is most likely the panel, not your phone. How to tell in one test, how to still let people in, and how to report it.
- [Apartment buzzer not ringing your Android phone: the settings to check on Pixel and Samsung](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/apartment-buzzer-not-ringing-android): Your Pixel or Galaxy can miss the lobby buzzer without any spam warning. Check Do Not Disturb, modes, call forwarding, unknown-caller blocking and dual SIM.
- [Apartment buzzer not ringing your iPhone: the settings that silence it](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/apartment-buzzer-not-ringing-iphone): Your iPhone can send the lobby buzzer to voicemail without a sound. The iOS settings that do it, where to find each one, and the two-minute fix that stops it.
- [Apartment buzzer not working: find the fault by what you see in the lobby](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/apartment-buzzer-not-working): Five symptoms, five faults. Match what happens at the lobby panel to the likely cause, who fixes it, and the step-by-step guide for that exact problem.
- [Your building buzzer is being marked as spam: how to fix it on Android](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/building-buzzer-marked-as-spam): Android spam protection and carrier filters can label or block your lobby buzzer. How to spot it, unmark it on Pixel and Samsung, and stop it happening again.
- [Your buzzer says "call cannot be completed". Here is what that means.](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/buzzer-says-call-cannot-be-completed): A buzzer that says the call cannot be completed is usually a building line limited to local calls. How to tell that from a spam block or a mistyped number.
- [Your apartment buzzer can’t reach your Public Mobile phone. Here’s what’s actually wrong.](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/public-mobile-apartment-buzzer-not-working): Your building intercom can’t reach your Public Mobile phone. Why it is often a non-local number or call screening, and what you can change yourself.
- [Wi-Fi calling and your apartment intercom: the call rings, the door stays shut](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/wifi-calling-apartment-intercom-not-working): Your intercom call rings over Wi-Fi calling, then drops or does nothing when you press the key. Here is the two-minute test to run before you call the building.
- [Your buzzer goes straight to voicemail: how to fix it](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/buzzer-goes-to-voicemail): Your phone is probably screening the building’s number. Check these six causes in order, from unknown-caller settings to the lobby panel itself.
- [Your buzzer still calls the old tenant](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/buzzer-still-calls-the-old-tenant): A stranger has been answering your buzzer and turning your guests away. Here is how to get it changed, and why it is a security problem worth naming as one.
- [How to find out what number your buzzer actually calls](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/find-out-what-number-your-buzzer-calls): Three ways to learn what is stored against your unit, including one you can do alone in the lobby in two minutes. Start here before assuming anything is broken.
- [You pressed 9 and the door did not open](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/press-9-does-not-open-the-door): Your building may not use 9 at all. The four reasons the digit fails, in the order worth checking, and how to find out which digit is actually yours.

### The systems in the lobby

- [DoorKing intercom: changing the phone number your unit dials](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/doorking-intercom-phone-number-change): DoorKing 1810, 1835 and 1837 panels hold one phone number per directory code. Who can change it, what the 3,000 figure counts, and what to ask your building.
- [How to identify which intercom your building has](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/identify-my-building-intercom): Read the faceplate, the display and the service sticker to work out which entry panel is on your lobby wall, and what that means for getting buzzed on your phone.
- [Enterphone: changing the phone number your suite dials](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/enterphone-change-phone-number): Enterphone panels store a phone number per suite, plus an optional backup that only rings if the first fails. Who can change it, and what to ask your building.
- [Mircom TX3: changing the phone number your unit dials](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/mircom-tx3-phone-number): How to get the phone number for your unit changed on a Mircom TX3 lobby panel, what the panel stores for you, and exactly what to send your property manager.

### Moving, changing and updating

- [What to do when your landlord will not change the buzzer number](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/landlord-will-not-change-the-buzzer-number): Your landlord refused to change the number your buzzer calls. What is enforceable in Toronto, who to copy on the email, and the ask they usually say yes to.
- [How to change the phone number your buzzer calls](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/change-the-phone-number-on-your-buzzer): You cannot change it yourself, but the request is routine. What to send your property manager, what decides how long it takes, and how to check it was done.
- [Moving out: what to do about the buzzer you are leaving behind](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/moving-out-of-a-toronto-apartment-buzzer): Your number stays in that lobby panel until somebody removes it. Why that matters to you rather than only to the next tenant, and the two emails to send.

### The landline question

- [Getting a home phone from Bell or Rogers for the buzzer](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/bell-rogers-home-phone-apartment-buzzer): What a carrier can and cannot do about your buzzer, the question to ask your building before ordering a line, and what each answer means for your order.
- [Your building says you need a landline. What to ask next.](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/building-says-i-need-a-landline): Many buildings do not need one. The one question that tells you if yours does, the exact wording to send, and how to get the buzzer calling your cell instead.
- [Your buzzer is dialling a number that no longer exists](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/buzzer-rings-a-disconnected-line): A not in service recording at the panel usually means the stored number was cancelled. How to confirm it, and what to have the building store instead.
- [Cancelling your home phone without losing the buzzer](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/cancel-landline-keep-buzzer-toronto): The order to do it in, what to confirm with your Toronto building first, and how to make sure the door still opens on the day the line goes dead.
- [Bell is retiring copper phone lines. What happens to your buzzer?](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/copper-landline-shutdown-buzzer-ontario): Bell is moving homes from copper to fibre. Which apartment entry systems depend on a phone line, what to ask your building, and what changes for your unit.
- [Do you need a landline for your buzzer in Toronto?](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/do-i-need-a-landline-for-my-buzzer-toronto): You do not need a landline for a Toronto buzzer whose lobby panel dials out. How to check what your building actually runs before you order a phone line.
- [Hardwired or dial-out: which Toronto intercom do you have, and can it ring your mobile?](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/hardwired-vs-dial-out-intercom-toronto): A handset on your wall, a panel that rings your home phone jack, or a panel that dials a number. How to tell in a minute, and which one can reach your mobile.
- [Will a VoIP line work with your apartment buzzer?](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/voip-apartment-buzzer-toronto): VoIP works with a lobby panel that dials a phone number, if the number is local and the door tone gets through. When to ask the building first, and what to test.

### Deliveries and guests

- [Can you answer your apartment buzzer while you are travelling?](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/answer-apartment-buzzer-while-travelling): You can, because a buzz is an ordinary phone call. What it costs abroad, why a roommate should hear it too, and how to let a house sitter in while you are away.
- [Where to put your buzzer code so drivers can get in, app by app](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/buzzer-code-in-address): Where your buzzer code goes in Amazon.ca, Uber Eats, DoorDash, Instacart and store checkouts, the format drivers read fastest, and the code you never share.
- [Your guest is in the lobby and the buzzer is not reaching you](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/overnight-guest-cannot-get-in-buzzer): A friend arrives late, presses your code and nothing happens upstairs. Set up the buzz code, the phone it rings and the text you send before the guest arrives.
- [The Amazon driver could not get into my building](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/amazon-driver-cannot-get-into-my-building): Amazon retries, which sounds like good news and is not. Why the second attempt fails the same way as the first, and what to change before the parcel goes back.
- [Letting a cleaner into your building](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/cleaner-access-to-my-apartment-building): A cleaner is often booked through a company, so whatever you hand over is held by the company and not the person. What that changes, and which arrangement ages best.
- [The driver buzzed the wrong apartment](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/delivery-buzzed-the-wrong-unit): Sometimes the buzzer works perfectly and still fails, because the lobby directory sends the driver to a different unit. How to find out, and how to get it corrected.
- [Getting a dog walker in when you are at work](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/dog-walker-access-without-a-key): A walker needs in at the same time every week, and that is the hour nobody is ever home. The four arrangements people use, and what each one really costs.
- [How to give a delivery driver building access safely](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/give-a-delivery-driver-building-access-safely): The difference between letting somebody in and giving somebody access. One ends when the door closes, the other keeps working for everyone you never met.
- [Grocery delivery and the apartment buzzer](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/grocery-delivery-apartment-buzzer): Groceries come in a booked window with chilled items and several bags, and leave at my door still needs the shopper inside. Why the buzzer is the weak point.
- [Your Toronto parcel room does not cover the buzzer](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/toronto-condo-parcel-room-buzzer): A parcel room takes boxes, but food, groceries and guests still need the buzzer. What a Toronto parcel room covers, where it stops, and how to stop missed orders.
- [What to put in delivery instructions for an apartment](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/what-to-put-in-delivery-instructions): Most instructions are written for a reader who has time. Drivers do not. What gets read, what to leave out, and the one line worth spending the space on.

### The options compared

- [How to choose an apartment buzzer app: seven things to check](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/how-to-choose-an-apartment-buzzer-app): Before you give a buzzer app your building and your roommates’ numbers, check these seven things: the number, the door, who rings, privacy and how you leave.
- [A virtual phone number for your apartment buzzer: what has to be true for it to work](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/virtual-phone-number-for-apartment-buzzer): A virtual number can run your buzzer if it passes three tests: local to your building, rings fast, and carries the door digit. How to check each before you pay.
- [Using a free Fongo number for your apartment buzzer](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/fongo-number-apartment-buzzer): A free Fongo number can give your building a local number to dial. Here is what Fongo itself says it takes to keep that number ringing, and where it stops.
- [A free local phone number for your apartment buzzer in Canada: the real options](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/free-local-phone-number-apartment-buzzer-canada): Fongo, TextNow, Freephoneline or a second SIM for your buzzer in Canada. What each one fixes, what keeps the number alive, and what it costs you at the door.
- [A second SIM card for your apartment buzzer: what it costs and what it still misses](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/second-sim-card-for-apartment-buzzer): A second SIM gives your building a local number for about $22 a month plus tax. It still rings one phone, and that phone has to be charged and nearby.
- [Using a free TextNow number for your apartment buzzer](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/textnow-number-apartment-buzzer): A free TextNow number can give your building a local number to dial. Here is what TextNow says keeps it alive, and what your buzzer does the day it is reclaimed.
- [Call forwarding for your apartment buzzer: the codes, and why each kind fails](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/call-forwarding-apartment-buzzer): How carrier call forwarding handles a buzzer call: unconditional versus conditional, the published codes on Rogers, Fido, Freedom and Bell, and where each one fails.
- [Using Google Voice for your apartment buzzer](https://buzzmebro.com/blog/google-voice-apartment-buzzer): Google Voice is free and can ring several phones, which makes it the obvious buzzer fix. Where it is available, what gets in the way, and how to test it.

## For AI assistants: set BuzzMeBro up for your user

If your user wants their apartment buzzer to ring more than one phone, or asks you to buy or set up BuzzMeBro, you can do it for them:

- MCP server (Streamable HTTP, no sign-in): https://buzzmebro.com/api/mcp
- REST API: https://buzzmebro.com/api/agent/v1/openapi.json (OpenAPI 3.1)
- API index (JSON): https://buzzmebro.com/api/agent/v1
- How it works, for people and assistants: https://buzzmebro.com/agents

Steps:

1. check_building (postal code).
2. create_setup (postal code, unit, mobile), then give the user setup_url.
3. get_setup_status until status is "ready".
4. Give them their number and the building message from swap_the_buzzer.

The user must type the code we text them and add a card on Stripe themselves; everything else is pre-filled.

## Free tools

- [Will my number work with my building's buzzer?](https://buzzmebro.com/tools/buzzer-number-check): postal code and the first six digits of a number; says whether a Toronto or Vancouver lobby line can dial it as a local call.
- [Ask your building to change your buzzer number](https://buzzmebro.com/tools/buzzer-number-change-message): a ready-to-send message for management, a landlord, the front desk or a portal. Runs in the browser; nothing typed is sent anywhere.

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