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.
Eufy here too. I’ve a wired one and it’s been a great yoke for the last five years. No subscription unless you want it, not needed with local recording anyway.
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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