Amcrest - AD110

I love my POE Reolink Doorbell, extremely stable, picture is good, speaker/mic is reasonable. I like the expandable outlet chimes so I can install them on each floor of my house without needing to run more wires and dealing with figuring out the amount of power the transformer needs for everything. The person detection is way better and more accurate than my previous systems with Skybell, and Amcrest. The interface for the alerts bookmarks on the playback screen is way better as well. I previously had the Amcrest doorbell (standard, NOT the newer 4mp one) which used wifi with standard transformers and wired door chimes. The wifi reception was a bit flakey despite my mesh system being relatively close and signal tested showed decent coverage on other devices. The Reolink one looks sleeker as well. It records onto the SD and my blue iris NVR system. I still don't trust Eufy after the amount of data they seem to send back to the company while stating otherwise from a while back and Unifi systems are overpriced for what you get. Unless you have a decent Unifi setup already, it seems overkill to spend $300 on their doorbell. Skybell was terrible imo, and Nest/Wyze/Ring have subscriptions for full functionality which is a no go for me.

Reolink unless you already have a unifi protect console. I swapped from amcrest to unifi, it wasn't really needed but I wanted the finger print reader.

I’ve been using an Amcrest doorbell in Scrypted and Homebridge for years.

So far I really like the reolink we just got. Before this we had the amcrest doorbell because we have their NVR and other cameras. It was never a smooth functioning doorbell and completely gave out after a little over a year. Reolink has been very easy to use and responsive. I just haven't figured out the wiring stuff for the chime but quite frankly I prefer just having it alert my phone anyway.

Amcrest Doorbell Cam with Scripted Nvr in proxmox works great for me. Scrypted is integrated into HA as well

We’ve been happy with Amcrest cameras… no subscription (and no annoying popup offers). UI is not the easiest though

The only real reason to go with Amcrest over Reolink is that Amcrest can integrate with an existing doorbell chime. It sounds like that isn't a requirement for you so Reolink would be the way to go.

We have an Amcrest doorbell. It is wired and saves to an SD card. Everything is controlled through an app, and is subscription free. It works well, and I can connect it to an NVT in the future I'd I choose to do so.

I’ve been using Amcrest. It’s decent and isn’t cloud dependent if you can’t get a Ethernet cable there.

Amcrest to frigate and home assistant to push the notification and pop up the live feed. Works well enough for me.

This is true for cameras but less so for doorbells. An awful lot (almost all) of doorbells are 'smart home' products, that don't just have a basic web interface but rather force you to use some shitty app. Take the amcrest one- it'll work locally with a NVR, but you still have to configure it with an app, and if you cut off its internet connection to Amcrest cloud the LED blinks differently. Cameras there's plenty of options that are happy to work locally. Doorbells, not so much. Ubiquiti UniFi is one, I think Dahua also has one. Reolink too although you may need an app to set it up.

I have the Amcrest one along with a couple of their PoE cameras, they work great and integrate well with both Home Assistant and Blue Iris. Although I do use their app with an account to use the talk feature occasionally. For just the video feed, notifications, and recording, Blue Iris does the job locally just fine.

I use an Amcrest video doorbell which us ONVIF compatible, the open standard used by security cameras. That makes sense because security cameras is their main business. I have it connected to my home automation system so we can access it through our phones or a few wall mounted tablets around the house. It can also store the video to an SD card if you prefer and can be accessed locally with an app that doesn't require a subscription. Yes, they offer a cloud subscription if you like, but it is optional, but not using it means you need to set up your own remote access if desired.