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I've got a eufy and I really like it. The wired version allows you to pre-record up to 4 seconds, so you get clips that start before motion triggers the recording, which is nice. Sometimes doorbell cameras miss the start of something important. My parents have a reolink and the app kinda sucks. I can't remember all my reasons for disliking it, but the big one is that you can't set motion detection zones for the camera. My parents have a flag on their front porch so they have dozens of clips per day that just have the flag waving.
I've had the wired doorbell for 5 years now and I have 6 solar cameras around the outside of my house. I bought the homebase3 from them and bought a 2tb ssd so my stuff is stored locally. The doorbell gives me a ton a false positives because of my tree. It's basically only good for when people ring the doorbell. I love not paying a subscription though and the solar cameras have actually kept up. I don't keep them in my home because of security concerns from the company, but I'm being real here all our info is leaked anyways
I have a solar cellular s330 for a year in extreme temperatures zone range is +85 to -25. So far so good. Sometimes it takes two tries to reach the camera to view the video but the notifications all seem to come through. Cell service is the pits so I was surprised it worked at all. About 3 months installed a wired doorbell and it has been working fine. This one replaced a nest doorbell also wired that turned out to have a battery that gave out....
I also am really unhappy with the Eufy wired doorbell inconsistencjes. The funny thing is, the camera we have is way more consistent.
I have one and I would not buy again. It alerts on random things, such as stationary objects on the porch. It also seems to fail to note actual human movement at times. I find it almost useless.
Eufy battery does not last in our winters. The wired version is also unreliable.
Idk if it's too late, but mine broke after 2 years. Just randomly stopped alerting me. Stopped recording everything. Maybe it fried in the sun? The app is garbage, whenever I open it, I'm being advertised another eufy product. I'm trying to look at security footage, not shop. Sometimes I'd get an alert, and the playback wouldn't work at all until a month later. It broke after the warranty expired. So I switched to Reolink. It has less features, but works for me. The market for non-cloud security doorbells sucks. I don't want to pay a monthly service to use a doorbell.
Eufy is the way to go. I use Eufy for my home security (I pay for the monitoring service now, but didn't in the past), and I love it.
Went from Ring to Eufy Doorbell with Chime add-on. 1) Ring is far superior at marking the same motion as an "event". If I stand on my porch watering plants the Ring would alert once. The Eufy "sees" motion ever few seconds and alerts continuously. I can log 5-10 alerts for 30 seconds of watering, filling up my phone with notifications. It can act similarly for strangers dropping a package and taking a picture, etc ... This seems like a software immaturity issue, maybe the can fix it in the future? Camera is great though. 2) The Chime add-on setup can be finicky. It will get to a part in the instructions where it says to join the network of the Chime. But, doing so will be a dead-end and you will have to start over. Just acknowledge the message and move forward. Secondly, the instruction have you plug it in ... THEN you need to take a picture of a QR code on the device, guess where that QR code is? Yuuup.... It's on the bottom, so then you need to unplug it, and then take the QR picture, then replug it and wait for the Chime to self-initialize again. But once in place, it works well. We have about a 1 second lag between button press and alert which is acceptable.
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