Video Doorbell C31

The doorbell cameras are not good. You are better off with just a camera to monitor your doorway. If you must, get the C31 2k video doorbell. It's the only one with 24/7 recording. If you do choose to use a doorbell for alerts and similar features I would still get a separate camera for the entryway as well. Doorbell cameras compliment existing Eufy cams, they do not replace them.Double coverage of your front door is not only fine, its preferred.

I have one of these, with a Homebase for storage, a chime in my kitchen and a screen on my desk. Its great. Works perfectly. (Its unfortunate that some people feel the need to downvote without commenting every time their favourite Google/Amazon products aren't being promoted)

**Eufy**. Tado comes a very close second. Vid doorbells can be complicated and as you say lots of options, I've gone into detail on reasons why for me Eufy is first. **1. PIR Detector / Battery** If you have an electric hardwired standard / dumb doorbell already, it's highly likely you need to use a battery powered video doorbell. Or if you don't and need battery only the same principle applies. Some vid doorbells are powered electric only, but they need a higher power supply and most standard / dumb doorbells in Ireland don't have that higher power supply (hard wiring it in will however charge the battery but doesn't supply the video doorbell itself with power the charging is handy tho means you don't have to take battery off every few weeks to charge it). However the key point I want to make is that with a battery powered doorbell you need an excellent PIR motion detector to wake up the camera so that it records and without it a battery powered vid doorbell is useless. Eufy has a very good PIR detector however some models within Eufy have better PIR detectors than others, the C31 model I find had excellent PIR detector. Also if you use a battery powered doorbell and hardwire it you can keep your existing mechanical chimes as they will ring. They won't ring with the electric powered ones. **2. Connection to Internet** I find my Eufy has very good connection to internet, but it will depend on your router, signal interference (eg concrete walls between vid doorbell and router, other nearby Wifi signals etc), some vid doorbells work better with some routers. Trial and error if the first one you order doesn't work. Also see below on storage box. **3: Vid storage** You can have stoarge in an SD card in the vid doorbell, in a dedicated storage box beside the router or in the cloud. I have a box for storage (([Eufy Video Doorbell 2K with Motion Sensor & White | DID.ie - DID Electrical](https://www.did.ie/products/eufy-video-doorbell-2k-with-motion-sensor-black-white-e82101w4)), means the videos can't be stolen as they're stored on the box rather than the vid doorbell itself. With Eufy the added benefit of the box is that it communicates directly with the vid doorbell and not with your Wifi router, I find the connection a little more solid/ quicker than the connection to the Wifi router which was also good to be fair. You can subscribe and pay monthly for cloud storage with Eufy (and other brands) but there is no need if you have a storage box. **4. Competitors** Other main competitors are Tado, Reolink, Ring and Blink. Tado are very good but is just a little too bulky for my liking. Reolink battery powered I got had garbage PIR detector (however their electric powered model is very good). Blink are kinda crappy. Never tried Ring as they're rip off merchants. If it were me I would order the Eufy and Tado online and return whichever you like less within the 30 days there's some good B Friday deals on doorbell at the moment.

I reckon I'll go with the eufy c31 but I'll add a small security screw in the release opening.

I don't know what these folks are talking about. The e340 package detection is useless. I've had packages sitting directly in the second camera frame and not send notifications. Additionally a huge problem with this camera is that it only records events (which it misses most of the time). Do yourself a favor and get the much cheaper c31 instead which is capable of 24/7 recording via HB3 and also sends a video call directly to your phone when the doorbell is rung. Either way you should definitely get the E10 display as well, as it's fairly useful.

I just returned all the eufy I bought less than a month ago while they had their -50% off sale. So that would be 2 wired C31 doorbells, homebase 3, flood cam and more. The quality was just dogs… I am going for something more reliable for my doorbell. I don’t want to miss parcel deliveries or visitors waiting because the eufy products fail.

I assume you are German when you ask in German language:) So believe me when I say that Eufy is Chinese in the Chinese way, and you will be disappointed and annoyed with the quality. Eufy is all specs. All about writing all the right technical stuff and appearances. But in reality it’s horrible quality. You might be lucky and get a unit that is not defective or will last a season or two, but it’s definitely not built to last very long. Software that all of this rely on is garbage. Components are good spec, but garbage quality. I can not stress enough that even though I got my items at 50% off, I still believe it’s horrible. I do not want “home security “ that I can not trust. I do not want a doorbell that I can not expect to work every time. It’s just not good enough.

I had Google Nest Hello doorbell, but I was annoyed by the very expensive Google Aware subscription. The doorbell was excellent with the subscription, but without the subscription the app would respons slowly. Slow to show video and overall very poor experience compared to with the subscription. So I looked for a system that would work with no subscription and did a lot of comparison. Eufy seemed to be the best pick. In reality I got fooled by 1. americans who are used to trash quality. 2. YouTubers doing "reviews" on stuff they got sent for free and barely did any unbiased test on. And definetely not a long term test. 3. chinese being chinese. All the right buzzwords and specs, but their software and quality assurance is garbage. So you might be lucky to get a great device. You might be unlucky and get something that is not good. So Instead of buying 2 doorbells, homebase, floodlight cam, tablet/screen and a few other camera and and things from Eufy I return it all and just got a UniFi Doorbell Lite. PoE. Simple. Works 100%. Always. Then I will slowly build more to my home surveilance over time. Save a bit of money and buy a unit at the time. The complete setup will be vastly more expensive than Eufy bought on -50% off 3 weeks ago, but I believe that I would replece it within a few years anyway and I would daily be annoyed by a camera not working, a doorbell not capturing video, a missed parcel delivery etc. Also I hate advertisements and I am annoyed that Eufy put advertisment in their app.

I had the same concern when I was looking for a peephole-style doorbell cam — most of them are either tied to subscriptions or feel way too easy to steal. From what I tested, **Eufy** is still one of the better options for local storage, but yeah, the C31’s mount isn’t exactly theft-proof. You might want to check the **Brinno Duo** or **Remo+ Peephole Cam** — both are designed specifically for apartment-style doors and have replaceable batteries with microSD. If you’re mainly after **no subscription + local storage**, look for “RTSP support” or “local NAS recording” in the specs — that’s usually the hint you need.