TekTone

If your TekTone panel rings your cell or home phone when someone buzzes, it's a dial-out system and Enterkey can take the call. Older TekTone installations that only ring a wired handset inside the unit, with no outside line involved, can't forward anywhere, so they're not compatible.

TekTone is one of several intercom brands built around this same dial-out design. The apartment buzzer guide breaks down how they differ.

It depends on which TekTone system your building has, and TekTone has made three kinds. The Tek-ENTRY telephone entry system, phone-line version, sits on its own phone line and dials the number stored for your unit: its manual says each entry can hold a 7, 10 or 11 digit phone number, and tells residents "You can answer from any telephone." That is the version Enterkey works with, because the stored number can be your Enterkey number.

The no-phone-line version rings the phone lines already wired to each suite instead, so there is no outside number to change unless you keep a phone line in your unit. TekTone's IR series apartment stations are different again: wall stations inside each suite with buttons for talk, listen and door, which never place a phone call, so no app can answer them.

On a Tek-ENTRY telephone entry call, the resident presses 9 to let the visitor in, and hangs up to refuse. Pressing 6 works a second relay, often a parking gate, where the building has wired one. A call stays open for 60 seconds by default, and the building can set anywhere from 0 to 99. Enterkey sends the 9 for you when an active timed key or schedule lets a visitor in.

Sources: TekTone's Tek-ENTRY Telephone Entry System manuals for the phone-line version (IL573, rev. 12, 2009) and the no-phone-line version (IL574, rev. 15, 2010), and TekTone's IR203E, IR204E and IR205E apartment station specification sheet (IL233, rev. 22, 2022), checked October 16, 2026. If your building runs a newer TekTone panel, check the key on its resident instructions or ask support@enterkey.app before you switch.

Your property manager or the building's service company. On a Tek-ENTRY panel every entry pairs a four digit tenant dial code with a phone number, and the whole directory is programmed at the keypad and display inside the control panel. Moving your unit to Enterkey changes only that phone number. This request template asks for exactly that and explains how to undo it.

The test is simple: when a visitor buzzes your unit, does your cell phone (or a phone number you chose) ring? If yes, your system dials out, and Enterkey works by giving it a smarter number to dial. If your buzzer only rings a wired handset inside your unit and can't call an outside line, it isn't compatible.

Not sure? Ask your property manager one question: "Can the directory entry for my unit point at any phone number?" If the answer is yes, you're set: see how Enterkey works, and if you get stuck, support@enterkey.app answers within hours.

Ready to ask? This request template is written to be forwarded as is: it tells your manager exactly which field to change and how to undo it.

Sign up, get your unique Enterkey number, and ask your property manager to put it on your unit's directory entry, for most buildings that's a one-day change. From then on: answer anywhere, arm a timed key for deliveries, or set a PIN guests can speak at the panel.