eufy Security - Video Doorbell E340

I have the E340 doorbell and love it. I had a Ring doorbell previously and the eufy E340 is a huge improvement. I like that it has a higher resolution camera, better motion detection, and an additional lower camera for packages. I also have the eufy HomeBase 3 which adds a lot of extra functionality, like more storage capacity, centralized storage, video playback speed, better motion detection, and a stronger wifi connection. For a doorbell chime I use the HomeBase 3 and a separate eufy E340 plug-in chime add-on. They are on separate levels so when someone pushes the doorbell button I can hear it on both floors of our house and on my phone. The E340 Doorbell plus the HomeBase 3 has proven to be a great doorbell/security camera setup. I would never go back to Ring. In my experience Eufy has been more reliable and advanced in so many ways.

I’ve had the same experience and made a really long post awhile ago about my switch from Ring to eufy. It was a huge upgrade for me. I only had one issue with my E340 doorbell giving error codes in the beginning and after troubleshooting it with eufy, they sent me a brand new one right away. So for me not only has the security camera system been working great overall, their customer service has been excellent. Each system has their own quirks, but overall I’ve been very happy with eufy.

I switched from Ring and my eufy E340 doorbell has been a huge upgrade. I hardwired mine and added the HomeBase 3 also.

I have the Eufy E340 and would recommend it. Great field of view, good quality dual cameras (day and night), rich text notifications and great human and package detection 👏🏽

Nope but it captures all motions in the activity zone I defined so good enough for me as I just care about who is in close proximity of my house. So only want to be notified about those. It also accepts a sd card which fits into the Chime as opposed to the doorbell 👍🏽

Nope, it works with the Minibase Chime which takes an SD card if you prefer (the doorbell has 8GB of local storage).

Yup, I definitely prefer that to storage being on the doorbell itself.

Thanks for this. Reading replies like this is really helpful as they help to flesh out the ideas I'd already been having about them all. I think overall the Eufy is probably going to provide the best solution for me, albeit with the potential risk of theft. However it is generally a very safe and secure building where I live, so hopefully that wouldn't happen. I've also seen a YouTube vid from Lifehackster who shows you can add an additional screw to the pinhole to make it harder to steal, something I would definitely do. And I've got to agree about the Tapo. It is very thick, tall and heavy. The Eufy is slimmer and not quite as tall, and also looks shorter still because of the cutaway at the bottom for the lower camera.

Thanks. Have just been testing it out and the response times are really quick so far. Package detection seems to work really well too, although I don't think I realised (stupidly) that you'd have to have motion detection enabled for that to work, I thought it was a separate setting. I don't really want motion detection from the main camera due to living in a block of flats, I've no interest in seeing my neighbours come and go. But it seems you can't just choose to have motion detection on the bottom camera only.

I second that

im trying to get a refund on my eufy e340. its terrible for me anyway. been in contact with thm trying to sort it out and its just not working the way it should. i hve the wifi box 3 meters from it and the motion detection just doenst work most of the time and for whatever reason the battery drains so fast and this is on 2 cameras

I mean this sounds mostly like a smart doorbell. Like any smart doorbell that works with Apple. Or are you looking for something smaller? I would think any smart doorbell (wired or battery) that works with the secure apple homekit video thing. I bought a Eufy E340 doorbell that can work with secure homekit and i like it so far. I didnt want to lose some of the features by tying it to homekit so i left it separate, so unfortunately i cant tell you how well it works just through apple, as i still use the Eufy app that pushes to my iPhone.

Feels like I'm the lone warrior here recommending Tapo 😅 I have the D235, and it's great. It does cover head to toe, but you need to be strategic with placing it to ensure it covers the toe area you need. I like the ring-to-call feature — instead of just a notification, I get an actual phone call. A doorbell press is important, so I think a call demands immediate attention, unlike a pop-up that you might miss. The lag is mimimal - it was the fastest among the ones i compared (Eufy e340 and Reolink). I did a similar test like you've done - i bought all three and returned the Eufy and Reolink. Reolink seems to have a lot of fans but it performed so poorly compared to the Tapo. It was significantly laggy and the app was bad. Tapo's app is so much more refined and polished. A few reasons I didn't go with Eufy are 1. No 24x7 recording (You'll need it sometimes if you don’t have a dedicated camera in the front) 2. No RTSP support and 3. Eufy has a history of lying about it's encryption. You can read about it online

Yep, that's the upgrade I made and my only regret was buying the original one. .... I've now moved to an Eufy E340, the detection is massively superior it never goes off for no reason & while less FoV compared to the Plus the image quality appears better, but I find people ringing the doorbell my Alexa's etc are slower to respond. Overall though I liked my Ring Doorbell Plus and if youre happy in the Ring ecosystem it's a solid purchase and swapping batteries is way more convenient.

I don't see why you wouldn't just get the E340. It's the best one they make right now. Ive got two on my house and they are great. I thought I'd hate that they aren't 4K but they look great at 2K. Just get the HB3 now. No reason to buy the older version.

I just bought to e340 door bell. My understanding is that it’s wired and battery powered? Does that mean if you end up wiring it you won’t have to worry about battery running out ever?