Video Doorbell C210 (Battery)

Eufy make some decent kit

POE cameras will have the most stable connection but require more work of course to install. I’d avoid anything like Ring with the subscription model, no need when others don’t make you pay. Something like Reolink or Eufy might be good with local storage you don’t have to pay for. If possible to hard wire then do that, battery cameras have more restricts than mains powered

Don’t buy Ring, just not worth it. Something wired in would be best as battery cams have limitations. I have Eufy now but replacing with UniFi to get POE. Eufy works well though

If you want *no fees + battery power*, you’re kinda limited, most battery doorbells don’t do true 24/7 recording without a subscription. **Eufy battery doorbells** are one of the closest matches: no monthly fees, local storage, and human detection. **Reolink** is also solid if you want local SD recording. Just know battery models usually do **event recording**, not nonstop 24/7. If you end up wanting real continuous footage, wired with local storage is almost always the way to go.

Honestly, at £128, the Nest Doorbell (Battery) is a really solid piece of kit, but the chime situation catches a lot of UK buyers out. ​Here is exactly how it works so you don't waste your money: ​The Chime Situation To answer your question directly: No, it does not come with a plug-in chime module in the box, and it does not have a loud chime built into the actual unit that you will hear through your walls. ​You essentially have three options to actually hear it ring: ​The Smart Speaker Route (Easiest): If you own a Google Nest Mini or a Nest Hub screen, you can set them to act as your chime. When someone presses the button, your smart speakers will announce "Someone is at the front door." If you don't own one, you can usually pick up a 2nd hand Nest Mini on eBay or CEX for about £15. ​Hardwiring to an old chime: If you currently have a traditional wired UK doorbell on your wall with a chime box in the hallway, you can actually wire the Nest Battery directly to those existing wires. It will trigger your old mechanical "ding-dong" chime box. (Just check your transformer voltage first). ​Third-Party Chimes: You can buy third-party plug-in wireless chimes on Amazon (like the Wasserstein one) that sync to the Nest, but they are expensive and buying a cheap Nest Mini speaker is almost always better value. ​Is it worth the £128? Yes, mostly because Google gives you 3 hours of free event video history without forcing you into a monthly subscription, and the package/person detection is brilliant. ​Should you look at other brands? If the lack of an included chime annoys you, definitely look at Eufy. Their battery video doorbells frequently come with a dedicated chime plug in the box, the video quality is excellent, and they store the video locally on a base station inside your house so there are zero monthly subscription fees. ​Avoid Ring unless you already have Amazon Echo speakers in your house to use as chimes, and be aware that Ring essentially forces you to pay a monthly subscription just to watch back your videos.

Ubiquiti for DIY, Eufy for plug and play

I only have single-sample experience and am not sure its "good". I have a eufy model. 1. Read on for latency details below - ring is immediate, recording might miss a few steps of approach, as with any 'motion triggers' vs always-on recording. They have a wired version that might work better but you have to be able to get it power. 2. Very good camera quality. The unit I have has a top/main and lower "package view" camera. 3. Local storage available thru (required) home base unit. Some onboard storage, slot for a 2.5 HDD (\*or\* SDD also works - that's what I installed). This might be a dealbreaker for you given original comment about 'sync module'. 4. Basic homebase video storage/access/management and app movement notifications all free, with entirely optional upsell to a premium service that does more. (I have not opted in.) The latency seems ok if you set the sensitivity high so it catches movement early enough to record the door approach; that might be architecture dependent. Downside is you might get more motion triggers from moving foliage, insect flying across the camera view, that sort of thing. If you have multiple cameras, you can set one to auto-trigger another to start recording as well. (IF driveway cam sees movement start recording on doorbell cam, sort of thing). I have not attempted that with the doorbell cam as the secondary myself, but I don't see why it would be specifically ruled out. It works on two we have looking 'back to back' so to speak....the one facing the initial detection approach might show a little latency (person is mid-to-exiting frame when recording starts) but then the second one triggered catches them full outward bound field of view. The doorbell button press rings indoors immediately on the homebase speaker (the eufy 'no wire' doorbell cam model requires their homebase hub as the wireless and recording interface) but the app notification sound/popup on your phone has to route from homebase to cloud to app, and is delayed JUST enough half the time people have already turned away before I can launch the app to respond, when I've tried. You can set an automatic (record yourself or pre-canned robotic) voice response to rings that would be more rapid and maybe fill in the gap ('wait a second - paging the human') The battery life on the camera we have is fair (at the heightened sensitivity settings, we go about 40-60 days between needing to charge). Camera has been in use about 2 years now so some battery life degradation has probably already occurred. These days, I think porch pirates aren't even deterred by cameras anymore, if your primary goal is theft prevention vs. just "having a video doorbell to respond to" for legitimate callers. They just hoodie up, hunker down, grab quicker.