eufy Security - Video Doorbell S220

**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.

S220 doorbell wouldn’t charge anymore after 2 year….many people have same issue!

Just setup a bunch of the Eufy stuff at my son's house. Very impressed with it, and during Prime days it was very reasonbly priced.

I love my Eufy doorbell. The battery lasts me about 4-5 months on a single charge. We have fairly cold winters, but it does okay maintaining charge during colder months too. I have the older 220 model but it works great. You get notified of low battery in the app. When that happens I charge it for a few hours and it’s ready to go again

What you're wanting to do is possible. I'd go for Eufy over Ring. Same as chuckwagon, I started on Ring but the subscription cost ruined it for me. Switched to Eufy and haven't looked back, I also have other cameras from Eufy that all store the data locally (little home hub thing that goes in your house) and I can go back a few days at least. [https://www.eufy.com/uk/products/e82101w4?fliter\_category=video-doorbell&variant=37778678808769](https://www.eufy.com/uk/products/e82101w4?fliter_category=video-doorbell&variant=37778678808769) If you're wanting to wire it up, you wanna with this one. Search about though, might get it cheaper. Usually goes on deal on Amazon a lot.

Their wired 4K video doorbell is absolute trash.

My bad, 2K!

Stay away from Eufy - I've had nothing but problems with mine. It fails to pick up movement many times, even when the subject is walking straight up towards the camera, the intercom system stopped working so I can't speak to the people through the doorbell, and it throws false notifications based on my neighbor's roofline from across the street. But then sometimes it will pickup the cars driving by the house, so it's fickle.

Sorry buddy. I am happy with my P24 and E40 cams but that damned doorbell, what trash.

Looks similar. Mine is the Wi-Fi Doorbell Camera, 2K

hard-wired

Mine doesn't have a battery backup and doesn't require the HomeBase system. On paper I liked it for the local storage and access of videos, without a monthly fee. In practice, woof.

I have a Eufy and haven’t had any issues. I’ve had it installed through a TX summer without it frying, so I take that for a win lol. No connection or WiFi issues at all. I got the hardwired (also has the battery to be only battery powered) and the homebase 3.

I can say that the movement *sometimes* fails with me also specially with my doorbell, but I've been happy with Eufy overall. However I wanted to upgrade my doorbell and I don't want the E340. I wanted something 2025 but .. there's nothing. You gave me hope and took it away. 😅 https://preview.redd.it/54o9h0y17vre1.jpeg?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4f8ee7bde115b11c39a2626f8c479b7a44ea6ffb

This is the one I have and not that many complaints about it. https://preview.redd.it/afrn05tbavre1.jpeg?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4b06deb35efe79a6986a1d655da1ab505b9e6dd9 I also wired it even if it has a battery, cause it's in a high traffic zone and I didn't want it to run out of juice.

You’ll want a battery powered doorbell camera. Eufy, Wyze, Blink, etc. nearly all of them either the manufacturer or a third party make mounts for renters. IMHO stay away from ring (I just ditched mine after 5 years), they recently announced that they no longer require law enforcement to obtain a warrant for video from your doorbell.

I have a Eufy battery doorbell. Stores on an SD card that's on the chime inside the house.