eufy Security - Dual 2 Pro Video Doorbell with HomeBase

My Eufy S3 Familock keypad lock / doorbell / camera has local storage. I could buy a cloud subscription if I wanted to, but what’s on there is enough. Right now I’m looking at video clips from 2 days ago of the Halloween kids coming around. Plus it’s seriously cool just waving my hand at the lock and it unlocks the door. Yeah, they had some “security issues” IIRC there were some internal employees looking at cloud-stored videos. If you have a doorbell camera looking out at a public space - who cares? It’s not an *insecure lock*, they just had some internal employee issues. I think both of my Eufy’s are very solidly built, even though they do not integrate with HomeAssistant. If you want something that integrates with Home Assistant, Reolink is probably your best bet.

Eufy ... hands down the best ... I have tested at least six manufacturers. With Eufy, I have expanded and now have doorbells and cameras at two locations, units in stock for other uses and in case I have to replace, and the phone app is the best...hands down. I use ProC2 homebase and cameras. You will need to have internet.

OP, I have hade great success with Pro 2C homebase doorbell and cameras at home and a remote location. It is a aolid product.

Some do. Eufy and Unifi offer dual camera options that they typically call a "package cam" I think the bigger issue is angle and height. A camera will have a wider and further view when you can get ya boi Pythagoras in on the game and angle that camera down. So it's hard to have a doorbell which must by it's very nature be lower down to see people and let them press the button.

Another Eufy owner here, wireless doorbell connected to the hard wired home base to store the videos. Helped me find out some scrote tried to nick my Christmas decoration outside the front door.

My bell (the dual camera, powered one - T8203) goes into self-ringing mode when it gets too hot and the sun hits it at the correct angle in the afternoon, usually around 5P. Its not a stuck button and their support has been less than helpful in identifying the issue and agreeing to warranty the bell. So if you live in Florida, have a south facing home and install your doorbell on the east wall facing WSW, a few times a year when the sun is just right, "ding-dong" (and if you have dogs, the commotion that comes with them and a doorbell ring).

I gave up on having mine running through HomeKit and just chose the eufy dual cam one because I already have other eufy cameras and I’m super happy with it.

eufy doorbell does look amazing (2 cam). Working great. Only live stream loading time is sometimes slow (1-5sec). If this would be improved, eufy would be Nr. 1.

Eufy is not intergrated by default, you need to install the eufy addon for intergration. I had a battery doorbell and it can trigger automations (has binairy sensors). The doorbell i had was a bit slow on updating the sensors in HA, and the live stream was not working (p2p). The doorbell i had was supported by the addon. Not all eufy devices are supported by the addon. Look into the addon if your doorbell is supported: https://github.com/fuatakgun/eufy_security. For great intergration with homeassistant i advice to buy reolinks doorbell, got that recently and it has a platinum intergration on HA, and it all works great :-). Good luck on the doorbell journey Edit: I dont recall having any settings for the chime with eufy. Again Here, Reolink can do this in HA intergration.

Ah ok, i didnt have the E340, I had the duo cam directly bound to the homebase. Package detection was not too good here and i turned it off. But I live in the netherlands in a small town, so package theft is not a concern here. I hope you will find what you want! Can definetly advies to take a wired doorbell, cause it will stay on and detect way more than a battery one. Eufy did confirm to me that a battery doorbell will not perform better if you wire it.

I am talking about powersource, eufy said: “the battery doorbell will function the same with or without power attachted, only with power attached it will not run out of battery” it just charges the doorbell slowly to keep the battery from dying. My main problem was the wake time of the doorbell, it took about 3/5 seconds to wake, sometimes this was to slow for the ring button to function and the doorbell wont even ring. This is with a 1 to 2 meter walk up to the doorbell. I asked them if this would change with power attached, but the anwser made me change to Reolink POE doorbell. I suggest to test the eufy doorbel very well before you mount and install everything. My guess is you are best of with a wired only version, that supports 24/7 recording (then you are sure it will just stay on when on power). Maybe the E340 does this, check reviews for this, would be a waste to “upgrade” to something that does not help you :-)

My Eufy dual cam doorbell has been great, shows you immediately who is there and even if they don’t press the bell you can set up loitering detection to get an alert anyway. If you can hardwire you’ll have a better overall experience, regardless of brand you choose, but battery won’t be bad. I would say to steer clear of the likes of Ring. Any doorbell where you need a subscription to make best use of it is an insta-no for me.

Kinda...both have annoyances but Ring was far an away the most annoying, I used Ring from the start, all services were included for a year then a nominal fee imposed sometime afterward. then they started removing features and bumping up the price to get them back.. my ring often missed calls and when I needed to see who was at the door it didnt work. I looked around for a while and found Eufy, I suffer no such issue with Eufy, but there are other issues that I've found. Doorbell I have the split camera version and it works well, the issues listed below apply to this device too, if you have an option to hardwire then do that, one issue I have found is that when looking at the doorbell on my iPad it wants to swap from landscape to portrait mode, thats about it. There can be a bit of a faff when it comes to chimes as there is so many different types about. as I have the whole camera/bell/storage system, it was less of an issue. Updates: This is a big pain in the ass for me, I was on holiday some months back and the system froze, no footage or rings captured for a week, transpired the system just hung during or after an upgrade, which Eufy pushes (Or your Eufy requests) I dont know which, I have now installed a smart switch that I can reboot the system on a hang. Battery Battery life can be challenging even when using solar panels in the winter, you will need to hard wire to guarantee footage, or be prepared to recharge every few months in colder darker climes, you can improve the recharge rate by severely limiting what the device captures and save. each detection/record is a hit on the battery. Solar Panels Bottom line is that they are cheap, in the summer months mine charge the cameras to full most days, winter not so much, the quality of the panels isnt great either, I've just sent two back as they had started to delaminate and wrestle charging all the time, I have not heard about the panels in over a week, I dont know if they will replace them or not. Luckily I got some spares from Amazon during BF and have them fitted as I had to return my old ones for inspection, luckily I hedged my bets and got replacements first. At least I have some spares if they send new ones back. Using the system is easy but if you have the app setup on multiple devices they 'can' be issues having to log one device out and another one on.. Even with these annoyances its still waaaah better than Ring