Smart Video Doorbell

I have the Wemo, live in Winnipeg (it gets to -45). Don’t get it. It’s actually fine in the cold temps, worked great for the first year or so, but in the last year and a bit I’ve had to detach it and manually reset every 2-3 months (no matter what the temp). All that, plus Belkin has dropped support for it and all their smart home stuff. So while it still works on HomeKit. There are no more updates. Super disappointing, I bought it because I have had great experiences with Belkin stuff in the past. Personally, I’m looking for a replacement, but there really isn’t much… there’s rumours that Apple is making one… not holding my breath.

I bought one straight from Belkin as a pre-order so was an early adopter when it first became available back in January 2022. Installation was easier than the Ring Pro. Connected to our Airport router 5GHz and love the idea everything works through the Home App. Unlike others with frequent disconnections, ours would stay connected for 6-8 months and then require a hard reboot with the provided green screwdriver. The response time with notifications on home wifi and iPhone 4G/5G was average and comparable to Ring with wifi slightly faster. Our transformer was rated 16V AC/ 10VA. A few days ago decided to upgrade our doorbell transformer to 16V AC/ 30VA and have noticed that there is no longer a delay in ringing the house mechanical chime and video loading times are much faster and responsive. Notifications for someone ringing the doorbell is also more responsive. About 3-4 seconds with wifi and around 10-12 seconds with 5G. Hopefully the increased "power" from the doorbell transformer 30VA will help minimize the infrequent Wemo disconnecting from wifi. I suspect being on 5GHz and having my Airport router being about 10 ft away likely helps.

Once I banned my Belkin WeMo Video Doorbell from internet access (LAN-only), it’s been working perfectly. No more permanent disconnection issues.

I got a Belkin WeMo video doorbell a while ago, can’t remeber when. Maybe 21? 22? For a while kept going offline, I banned it from internet access and it’s been working fine ever since. Maybe gone offline less than I can count on one hand