eufy Security - Video Doorbell S330

I have S330 with homemade 2.  It worked 5 months then dead.  My other eufy flood light camera worked only 14 months and dead.  I would not come back to eufy.   I agree they have all good functions and no cloud needed.  Just not long term lasting

Some do. Eufy and Unifi offer dual camera options that they typically call a "package cam" I think the bigger issue is angle and height. A camera will have a wider and further view when you can get ya boi Pythagoras in on the game and angle that camera down. So it's hard to have a doorbell which must by it's very nature be lower down to see people and let them press the button.

I have a HB 3, 4 camera and the doorbell. Whenever I add the door bell, it crashes the HB3. However standalone the door bell works great.

Assuming you are talking about the S330 video doorbell "wired" version which comes with the chime, 8GB internal storage, and its not Homebase capable. The S330 also have a battery version, which does not comes with chime, does not have internal storage, and requires Homebase 3. There is a newer version video doorbell, E340, battery powered but can be wired, 8GB internal storage with Homebase 3 capable. Same to S330 wired version, featuring 3 seconda pre-recording on events if wired for continuous power. Best of both version of S330; newly added LED on top of the doorbell for color night vision. So if you are planning to get the Homebase 3, take a look of E340. It would work without Homebase 3, but connecting to Homebase 3 for additional features.

Assuming you are talking about the S330 video doorbell "wired" version which comes with the chime, 8GB internal storage, and its not Homebase capable. The S330 also have a battery version, which does not comes with chime, does not have internal storage, and requires Homebase 3. There is a newer version video doorbell, E340, battery powered but can be wired, 8GB internal storage with Homebase 3 capable. Same to S330 wired version, featuring 3 seconda pre-recording on events if wired for continuous power. Best of both version of S330; newly added LED on top of the doorbell for color night vision. So if you are planning to get the Homebase 3, take a look of E340. It would work without Homebase 3, but connecting to Homebase 3 for additional features.

Wired s330, wireless e340.

eufy Security Video Doorbell (Wired) S330 with Chime

It uses your existing doorbell wiring, although I did have to upgrade my doorbell transformer.

Which doorbell have you got? Mine hasn't been like this, it's pretty great for me, could it be something in the settings? Mines on battery but records them walking up and pressing the doorbell, and then the interaction until they've gone.

I have the S330, I think yours has slightly different settings to mine, my friend has the same as yours and the settings aren't always the same. How are your sensitivity levels and activity zones?

I don't have this issue. Others in this thread don't have this issue. My friend with the same doorbell doesn't have this issue. I can't see your settings so are they fine? But it could just be you have a faulty doorbell. Report an issue through the app, you'll get an email reply to ask for an invoice to prove warranty and they'll send you a new one. (Usually)

Have it and am happy\* with it (connected to our Homebase 3). I was bummed that it didn't record 24/7 - I assumed it did as it was wired and the advertising on the product page was **carefully** worded, something like "90 days of clips stored". Anyway, apparently none of the Eufy dual camera doorbells record 24/7 - once I got over that, I was happy. As an ecosystem Eufy works great, I have a Homebase and 2x E330 cameras. The biggest thing for me was no subscription. I do hope they will add more options around notifications as I get a lot, all accurate, but would like less.

It seems like an issue with the battery powered doorbell. I have an older version of the battery powered doorbell and it's terrible. Lots of connection issues. A lot of times it takes a long time to load into the live feed or watch a play back. I also have the issue with the doorbell recording too late like you. My parents have the wired version and has no issues. I actually ordered a s330 wired to replace the battery powered one.

I have the Video Smart Lock S330 w/chime and a Home Base 3. Just an FYI, my gf’s mother came over once and decided to unplug the chime; wireless access through the app stopped working (could not look at live view, couldn’t remotely respond/lock/unlock etc); the door lock functions still worked locally. Everything was automatically restored when I plugged the chime back in Now, this is listed as compatible with HB3 - [HERE is the compatibility list](https://support.eufy.com/s/article/Centralize-Your-Security-Ecosystem-with-HomeBase-3) - I just keep forgetting to convert it. I added a microSD card to the chime when I first got it, before it was compatible with HB3; it appears to have about 650 days running with over 18,500 events recorded, and only take up 44GB of the 120GB. You may also want to know that can can link your account to Alexa and it will recognize the doorbell push button, if you want to trigger any Alexa devices (doorbell noise, ‘someone at the door’ announcements etc). I did this since we usually couldn’t hear the chime upstairs.

I will say you need the eufy e340 floodlight camera will be the best choice. As for doorbell there are a couple of options E340 doorbell (has dual cameras and works of battery or wired and home base compatible), C31 (single camera, wired) and S330 (dual camera, wired only). The main difference between e340 and s330 doorbell is how they detect motion, capability in detection and preroll. I will suggest looking at "lifehackster" YouTube channel to see this comparison. Dude is the best resource when it comes to explaining and learning about eufy products. Vast majority are just selling you the product without good analysis. Here is a link of his comparison between the two https://youtu.be/hDK6uZE3ltc?si=oCrvO_kLFBBwuPfk His comparison is the reason I am holding off from switching my ring doorbell because I don't want to compromise on features between the current options and hoping Eufy will release a wired version with all the features similar to what I have on my ring doorbell 2. I do have a lot of Eufy cameras, doorlocks and the homebase 3. Homebase give you an added bonus of AI features from improved recognition to storage options (16gb standalone, and can be increased with a hard drive). I didn't talk too much about the floodlight because the E340 is the best they have, you can also watch a review on the YouTube channel. One thing about Eufy is you need to monitor it routinely, it's not something you get set and forget like ring. There are issues that arise and you have to be patient with them and work through them. I don't recommend Eufy to people who like to set and forget and hope the video will be there when they need it especially if you add the homebase. But if you are tech savvy and check your cameras routinely you will catch issue and be able to address them.

Is currently under evaluation https://support.eufy.com/s/article/Centralize-Your-Security-Ecosystem-with-HomeBase-3

Have it. No issues so far and like the resolution of both cameras. It does not connect to homebase 3 yet all recordings are local which kinda sucks since the device is outside.

And I agree about the metal plate it feels cheap

Does Tapo have better configuration around notifications/recording? ie, the ability to record all motion and only notify on person detection. I picked up S3 Pros, Homebase 3, S330 doorbell, & S330 floodlight two weeks ago and have been underwhelmed.

I have the S330 battery version wired to the mains. I chose this over the wired version because it's fully HB3 compatible, if the power goes out it will still operate, and it has PIR and radar detection where the wired version only has PIR. The E340 is the newer doorbell. There aren't two versions of it. It's a hybrid doorbell where you can either use it's battery or wire it to behave like a traditional wired doorbell. The only difference between the S330 and E340 im aware of is that the E340 has a removable battery pack and additional led lights for color nightvision. If I didn't already have the S330 I'd get the E340 but there aren't enough differences for me to upgrade.

The battery and wired versions are both S330.

I have the eufy dual wired. It’s been solid for two years or so. There is a new version that combines the door lock and cam if you want to go with the battery. https://www.amazon.com/eufy-Security-Doorbell-Delivery-Monthly/dp/B09Q2NGQL8

I’m pretty sure preroll requires the wired version (S330). The battery version (E340) won’t do preroll even if you hardwire it. The hardwire just eliminates the need to charge. Edit: I stand corrected, see below.

Yea I looked on the product description before making my first comment, but now that I'm searching in forums I see it mentioned by other users. Eufy should do a better job advertising! I was in your exact same situation, I had the old battery doorbell and it kept missing alerts because of the 3 second recording delay, so I just upgraded to the S330 for that. I would have considered buying the E340 over the S330 because preroll was really important.

We bought two Eufy s330 Cameras, Homebase 3 and s330Doorbell as our first set up. They started out well but soon realised we were missing lots events directly outside our front door. The footage quality was great but we only seemed to get people walking away or not at all. We have since switched to a full Tapo system and it has been much better all round (Cameras, Doorbell and have since expanded to smart plugs, motion sensors and temperature/humidity sensors).

Mines fine but it’s a S330

Kinda...both have annoyances but Ring was far an away the most annoying, I used Ring from the start, all services were included for a year then a nominal fee imposed sometime afterward. then they started removing features and bumping up the price to get them back.. my ring often missed calls and when I needed to see who was at the door it didnt work. I looked around for a while and found Eufy, I suffer no such issue with Eufy, but there are other issues that I've found. Doorbell I have the split camera version and it works well, the issues listed below apply to this device too, if you have an option to hardwire then do that, one issue I have found is that when looking at the doorbell on my iPad it wants to swap from landscape to portrait mode, thats about it. There can be a bit of a faff when it comes to chimes as there is so many different types about. as I have the whole camera/bell/storage system, it was less of an issue. Updates: This is a big pain in the ass for me, I was on holiday some months back and the system froze, no footage or rings captured for a week, transpired the system just hung during or after an upgrade, which Eufy pushes (Or your Eufy requests) I dont know which, I have now installed a smart switch that I can reboot the system on a hang. Battery Battery life can be challenging even when using solar panels in the winter, you will need to hard wire to guarantee footage, or be prepared to recharge every few months in colder darker climes, you can improve the recharge rate by severely limiting what the device captures and save. each detection/record is a hit on the battery. Solar Panels Bottom line is that they are cheap, in the summer months mine charge the cameras to full most days, winter not so much, the quality of the panels isnt great either, I've just sent two back as they had started to delaminate and wrestle charging all the time, I have not heard about the panels in over a week, I dont know if they will replace them or not. Luckily I got some spares from Amazon during BF and have them fitted as I had to return my old ones for inspection, luckily I hedged my bets and got replacements first. At least I have some spares if they send new ones back. Using the system is easy but if you have the app setup on multiple devices they 'can' be issues having to log one device out and another one on.. Even with these annoyances its still waaaah better than Ring

Google would be a better choice IMO, I just sold my Google doorbell for the newest Eufy model and I semi regret it. Google you just place outside and the thing is amazing, the AI is great and I've never had any issues. The eufy... Omg the lighting has to be right or the sensitivity has to be right otherwise it'll miss picking people up and it takes a damn near 2 minutes before it realizes there is a package and then another 2 minutes to tell you it's gone. Although on the contrary when it does work good it works good but there is just to many variables you gotta play around with when Google you just set it and forget it. Just my 2 cents

I use EUFY because it's no subscriptions, I have a dual camera version that watches for package deliveries

Change the recording time? I think mine is set for 15 seconds which seems to be ok for me.. if it's not doing at least what is expected, reach out to support. Oh I did upgrade to the Homebase 3.0

Eufy is not intergrated by default, you need to install the eufy addon for intergration. I had a battery doorbell and it can trigger automations (has binairy sensors). The doorbell i had was a bit slow on updating the sensors in HA, and the live stream was not working (p2p). The doorbell i had was supported by the addon. Not all eufy devices are supported by the addon. Look into the addon if your doorbell is supported: https://github.com/fuatakgun/eufy_security. For great intergration with homeassistant i advice to buy reolinks doorbell, got that recently and it has a platinum intergration on HA, and it all works great :-). Good luck on the doorbell journey Edit: I dont recall having any settings for the chime with eufy. Again Here, Reolink can do this in HA intergration.

Ah ok, i didnt have the E340, I had the duo cam directly bound to the homebase. Package detection was not too good here and i turned it off. But I live in the netherlands in a small town, so package theft is not a concern here. I hope you will find what you want! Can definetly advies to take a wired doorbell, cause it will stay on and detect way more than a battery one. Eufy did confirm to me that a battery doorbell will not perform better if you wire it.

I am talking about powersource, eufy said: “the battery doorbell will function the same with or without power attachted, only with power attached it will not run out of battery” it just charges the doorbell slowly to keep the battery from dying. My main problem was the wake time of the doorbell, it took about 3/5 seconds to wake, sometimes this was to slow for the ring button to function and the doorbell wont even ring. This is with a 1 to 2 meter walk up to the doorbell. I asked them if this would change with power attached, but the anwser made me change to Reolink POE doorbell. I suggest to test the eufy doorbel very well before you mount and install everything. My guess is you are best of with a wired only version, that supports 24/7 recording (then you are sure it will just stay on when on power). Maybe the E340 does this, check reviews for this, would be a waste to “upgrade” to something that does not help you :-)

They have a bunch go take a look, I use the dual camera model

Eufy 2k has been flawless for me. No monthly fees

I have the Schlage Encode Plus lock in HomeKit via Thread. Very happy with its performance. I use a Eufy wireless doorbell, as I don’t care about HomeKit for doorbell currently.

(UK) I have a Eufy battery powered doorbell cam. My door is on the floor below the main living area of my flat. The building is made of reinforced concrete with rebar and the door has metal eight point locking built into it and the bell never loses a wifi signal. I have the Homebase three and a seperate chime in my kitchen. I always hear the bell and so does the courier, so they know it works. A quick check shows you can turn off the bell sound. Couriers here like to do a teeny tiny knock and then leave. One courier waited four seconds before leaving. It is physically impossible for anyone to get to the door in these flats in four seconds. I have fitted a wire basket of the type used on the backs of electric wheelchairs to my door (this is partially shielded by a downpipe so it doesn't protude where anyone would walk) The Royal Mail deliverer puts parcels into the basket but never rings the bell. The downward facing camera watches the parcel and I have a warning notice that the spot is being recorded in the basket to deter thieves. This set up is working great. I did buy a second battery pack and have snapped off one unlocking key by pulling down on it, but with no lasting damage. I am very happy with Eufy but wish it would work with Smart Things.

The parcel alert isn't a feature I use. I have my phone on do not disturb most of the time and make people text me. I think it notified me for a parcel last monday but I didn't look at it. The parcel was there when I got home. My doorbell is watching a communal landing walkway rather than a garden path. I live in the middle of the block so it would ping me about sixty times every day as all the neighbours and their callers walk past my door. I am surprised how busy the landing is at night too. All this movement is recorded and the AI can name my favourite neighbours and spot their dogs and the odd seagull. It knows when the lower camera is used so treats parcels differently. I can check the post by looking at my phone from wherever I am. I have the basket so that parcels aren't just dumped in front of the door or taken back to the depot and the camera makes itself very obvious with two bright LEDs. I live in a sixties low rise concrete block. About 50 people live within 50 metres of me and many of those have their own Smart Home systems. It presents challenges to a smart home wi-fi system that typical low density American construction doesn't. I suspect there is very little testing for this situation.

My same setup and it works really well. Also no subscription fee for Eufy. I don’t really see the need of having doorbell and security system on HomeKit since I can’t imagine any automation/commands I’d use.

Yes eufy is good

https://www.netatmo.com/smart-video-doorbell This doorbell was referenced in another thread similar to this. It has SD Card storage but can then backup wirelessly via FTP which you could set up on your NAS. Alternatively, I use a eufy wireless doorbell which stores everything on the homebase which is a proprietary eufy storage, so if you're just looking to keep everything local and not in the cloud, this is also a way to do it and I've been really happy with my eufy security system and not having to pay any monthly fees or have anything in the cloud.

I have this one, but wireless. I couldn't run a wire. The electricians couldn't run a wire. :( The wireless one works well.

Really? I put mine in power performance mode and it's been going strong for months.

My doorbell camera is at 61%, and it's in Optimal Battery Life mode. It's in doorbell mode only, which means no motion detection. The LED is off. The camera only records if someone presses the doorbell. I installed the doorbell 201 days ago.

Same situation here, I was actually surprised that it worked okay through this winter. There were a couple real frigid days that killed the batteries, but overall it worked better than I expected. Only complaint is it can be a bit slow to detect people at the door - Apple TV puts up a thumbnail with who’s at the door, but it usually comes up as they’re walking away 😆 but I suspect that is an issue with my wifi, and not the doorbell itself.

Eufy user here. Video door bell with a micro sd card for storage in the pugged in base unit with doorbell chimes. Two further cameras linked to my phone via the house WiFi. Cameras’ footage is stored on my phone. Cameras are solar powered and doorbell has a rechargeable battery. All coordinated in a phone app.

I’ve been using the Eufy Security Video Doorbell—saves to NAS, great app, and AirPlay support. No subscription needed. Works like a charm for my setup.

We have the eufy one. Very happy with it.

Eufy. Just buy a second battery or hard wire. Software is good, connectivity is good.

No name Aldi brand doorbell? I don't think it would be anywhere close to decent. Invest in a Eufy for 70 quid or any other brand. You can get a Ring for cheap on sale, but it has a subscription.

Ecobee shows up on my Appletv, and I can view live HomeKit, but no secure video storage. Might swap out for Eufy, my other eufy cams have been pretty solid

Eufy user here. Camera quality is excellent. However, a good 5 second lag with alerts and bell ringing. Also impossible to speak via microphone as the lag is too long…. If anyone has some hints please tell me as the camera really is superb

Definitely eufy. Saves like a month's worth of data, no subscription, decent quality camera and audio

Eufy sucks. I’m switching back to Ring. Tons of false positives and a few missed package deliveries. Plus there’s no way to snooze all your units. Going one by one when the gardener shows up got old quick.

I use Eufy extensively at two homes. Quality build, good UI, easy to install, and no cloud storage if add a storage card or their HomeBase (hard drive).

Which would rid well, is not expensive, and has end-end encryption.

I love the eufy doorbell cameras. There is a home base, no fees whatsoever only buy the doorbell and home base. All features are there and no subscription

You can get your Eufy doorbell working with Homebridge by the way. I think for starters, I suggest getting an Apple TV or HomePod mini, ideally a HomePod for your main rooms, which helps with issuing commands to Siri. I have the following in place: Hue - Lightbulbs and motion sensors, smart plugs Aqara - Door, water and temperature sensors, U200, FP2, Camera G2H Pro, LED lights for behind TVs. Ring security system (Connected with Homebridge) Ring Outside Flood Camera (Connected with Scrypted) TPLink POE Mesh using a Omada controller Govee ceiling light and floor lamp (much cheaper than Hue, connected using Homebridge) All my hue lights have a wall switch cover with a hue remote. Stops people turning off the physical light switch. I have one physical Aqara switch for the bathroom with dual rocker, one for lights another which controls the extractor fan. I’ve been building up my setup since I purchased my first house in 2020.

Here’s my take. Apologies for the length but, Eufy can be a perfect choice for some people. But not for me anymore. Their hardware is relatively affordable and easy to use and of pretty good picture quality. The app is packed with a lot of different settings to adjust and cool AI features. But I now see why people hate on Eufy so much. They really do kind of sucker you in with their marketing. I have 12 of their cameras, including the door bell. I wanted a locally stored no fee system and Eufy was seemingly the best consumer product. The customer support is hit or miss. Some of the “tech/maintenance” phone support are helpful, other times completely useless. I ordered one of the Smart Drops, a month went by with no communication of my order, for some reason since the order was made in their app, I couldn’t look it up to check the status on their website, wouldn’t come up. I contacted them requesting to cancel my order, coincidentally that same day I received a tracking number and it was shipped out that day, then said it couldn’t be cancelled because it was in transit. They refused to pay for a return shipping label after delivery, but for some reason would only offer a 50% refund. I was able to successfully dispute the charge with Amex. I wish the door bell could have the option to wire to continuously record but it doesn’t. The motion detection misses a lot, better have at least 1 back up cam watching as well. Hard drive in the base station disconnects and reconnects too many times for me to consider it as reliable. The whole system is buggy, laggy, and sometimes slow/unresponsive. The fact they have everything on a seemingly constant 50ish% off sale makes me think they must be collecting some type of data and using “you” as the product. Idk. They give me bad vibes, so I’m switching to Unifi. Honestly, if you can swing the extra costs involved, I would recommend looking into Unifi Protect.

No such issues with mine. Like with the Eufy doorbell, it replaced, I designed and 3D printed a wall mount that lets me plug a solar panel into the back so I don't worry about battery. But even before I had that hooked up, it seemed fine. Only thing I wish it had was animal detection.

I've had Ring and Eufy, both were good quality but I found the Eufy a bit slower to notify. So I'd get the "someone at the front door" message when the postman was already halfway back down the drive after delivering the postman. With the Ring one, I get notified once they step on the driveway.

I know this is late but im having issues with my Eufy stuff. What made you change away from them?

Eufy. Had ours for a couple of months now and it seems to be good. Videos are stored on a hard drive that needs to be hardwired to a router. Edit for clarification. The camera doorbell is wireless. The homebase unit that stores the video is wired to my router and is plugged into the mains.

Very impressed with it so far.

Got the doorbell and the homebase. Pretty pleased with it so far. 🤞🤞

Weird. Our doorbell is pretty spot on when it comes to notifications.

Unifi, Eufy, Aqara are all good options with local storage / NVR options.

Eufy has really good video quality. IMHO they are the best bang for your buck, plus military grade encrypted

I would second the Eufy option per your specifications:)

I've sat on my hands with regard to posting this because I don't want this post to highlight inadequacies of some products, therefore highlighting properties where these can be seen, as an "easier" target, therefore choosing my wording carefully. Asking Officers, Investigators and other operational staff, which video doorbells and "cloud" cctv systems you've experienced, and have stood out to you as being good quality. As tempting as it may be, please DONT comment to say which ones are bad, only looking for positives here for the reasons above. I'm trying to compile a list of good ones that can be recommended as part of a community safety charity i'm involved with. I'll kick it off with the eufy series of doorbells, not tried their CCTV but the quality from the doorbells was fantastic both day and night , i was very impressed and had not heard of them prior.

So there's EUFY as an option with their Home-Base which we could put an SSD into, Concern being that needs to be tucked away as if that gets found and taken, then all footage is lost.

Oh, Eufy are Anker right? I thought they were better

I had ring and eufy. I bought another eufy last year. I had so much trouble with it. It wouldn't pick up motion for hours. Day and night. I eventually got my money back. I'm trying to pick a different doorbell

I had 2 eufy doorbells. The first one was good for a while. Then it stopped picking up motion. The battery was never really good. It would last a couple of weeks before it needed to be charged. I changed all the settings to optimise the battery power, but it did nothing. The second one was worse. It stopped picking up motion for most of the night and long periods during the day. The battery lasts a week. Eufy customer service was so bad. They were weeks promising me a new doorbell. I had enough and got a refund eventually. I should have learned after the first one.

I had eufy before, now running 8x POE reolink with NVR. Best thing ever and works really good with HA. Affordable too and no bullshit subscriptions.

I have just made this switch and, after 3 days, I'm going to return the Eufy. It seems to be plagued with connectivity and reliability issues.

Vote for eufy here too. I recently got one and it works well. Harvey Norman will price match too if you can find it online and in stock. Managed to knock 30 quid off the bell.

I'm on aqara and that's what I'm recommending now. I started with ring but I needed to reset the connection regularly and there was a subscription fee. Then I went to eufy, but I needed to reset the connection all the time. I initially got it because it was supposed to link to Alexa show devices but after a year I think they dropped support. Really hated it. Next I went to aqara. Never needed to reset the connection since the install. Its wired and battery operated, so best of both worlds (battery backup). It uses a hub, which I thought would be an issue but turns out I like that better. The hub is small and right next to my router (no connection concerns), plugged into the UPS (no concern for power outage), the SD card plugs into the hub so if anything ever happened to the camera I'd still have access to my files. It works well enough with Amazon (will show the feed on Amazon devices on demand, will announce when I'm watching something on the firestick). There's also plenty of automation features (recognize faces, custom ring tones was fun for Halloween, ring tones for specific people when they are recognized). Gripes for the aqara G4 - only 5 custom ring tones, not sure why there's a limitation when it's all just stored on the SD card. Similarly there's a limit to 30 recognized faces, really dont understand why. It frequently reverts from continuous recording to event recording, which is a problem. The app is not streamlined at all. The functionality is there and easy to use for whatever you'd want to do but it's really not intelligently organized. Despite these gripes I'm taking the G4 over the eufy any day.

I have eufy doorbell and 3 eufy pro cams can’t remember the version. They work great. I did add the solar panels for them so I don’t have to charge them but in the winter. They summer months I dont have to touch them.

For smoke/carbon monoxide I have the "First Alert Battery Powered Z-Wave Smoke Detector & Carbon Monoxide Alarm, Works with Ring Alarm Base Station, 2nd Generation" on Amazon. Seems to work fine. I've never had it go off for a real scenario though. I have notifications set up through the SmartThings app to go to my phone (along with turning on all the lights in my house). For lock I've used the Yale Assure Z-Wave for several years and it works great for me. I prefer doorbells that don't have monthly fees. I like the Eufy doorbell. It does not integrate with SmartThings. My alarm system is hooked into SmartThings but I had an existing alarm panel so I added an Eyezon board which then integrated into SmartThings.

Ring, Eufy and Tapo are all good. I’ve Tapo Cameras, Smart Plugs and Smart Radiator Valves - very easy setup. Recording wise you can add an SD-Card or pay a subscription to record to the cloud

We have a Eufy and it's pretty terrible. It sets off on anything that moves despite all the settings in the app which all do nothing. It somewhat functions if you really have no other option, but honestly I wish I had just bought into Ring instead.

Never used Ring but I like the Eufy. There is no anti theft screw on it like Ring has, but I suppose if someone wanted your ring that screw ain't stopping them anyway. Just thought it was odd when installing that somome could just kinda take it.

Weird must be diff models. My bracket frame screws into house yes, but the actual doorbell just clips into the frame.

Is it quick to open the streaming when you click on the notification that someone's ringing? I had a ring doorbell before and it was very quick, changed to Eufy and it is rubbishly slow and I often miss a delivery because of that

I did the same move and overall quality Eufy is better, doorbell functionality, I miss ring. When somebody rings my doorbell, I don’t get that 🔔 emoji on the notification to differ it from normal motion notifications, and this may look silly, but makes me miss people ringing for not spot right what is in the notification content. Second thing is that once I finally respond to it ringing on my phone, it takes too long to open the live view, which can be annoying sometimes. I’m using the same phone and connection I used with Ring, so I wasn’t expecting such different results.

I will vouch for Eufy as well, I love their cameras and never have issues or random fees pop up.

I love my Eufy doorbell.

Eufy Video Doorbell is a solid choice. It sends quick alerts to your phone and lets you talk through it. Plus, it works with NVR systems, although compatibility might depend on the NVR you have.

I use one, Eufy makes some very good products!

I have Eufy and no complaints so far, battery lasts upto six months and good build quality

I've also been thinking about changing my eufy to reolink. I would have a memory card for app usage but would also link to either hikvison NVR or frigate. Does anyone know if I use either of these for 24/7 recording will it also record audio? Also can you confirm that 2 way audio recording works well in the app? Eufy only records audio from the visitor side so you don't get a recording of any conversation.

The dual cameras in some of the eufy's are nice, but that's about the only win there. Battery life on mine has been poor (recharging almost monthly) despite that unit being the one that is somewhat secluded, so it doesn't get triggered very often. If you try to build out beyond the doorbell, the software is all over the map. The hardware is generally nice, but lots of random surprises, like some have local SD support, some support RTSP, some support the Home Base, others do none of that.

Way better. Battery life on ring products is terrible. Battery life is better, video is better, and it's stored locally on the homebase. I'm so glad I switched.

I recommend Eufy for multiple reasons I have’t seen anyone else mention. First, great response time… almost no lag between detection and notification. A friend’s Ring was so slow that a person could walk 30 feet to the door, drop a package and be back out of sight before the Ring alerted. Next, the Eufy’s picture is great, even in poor lighting conditions. My porch is in shade with bright Arizona sun in the background, but every video is crystal clear. Finally, Eufy offers multiple storage options that don’t require a contract. My first Eufy had a micro SD card, my current five camera setup uses Homebase. To be fair, I’ve never even heard of Tapo, so they might be better. Ring will never be cost effective no matter how good a product it is.

Nope. Get Eufy. You don’t have any subscription fees. Ever.

I switched from ring to eufy for a few reasons and very happy with the better picture quality, home base storage, and the AI is spot on

I bought this and sent it back. It’s bloody awful. I got the eufy and it’s the best I’ve had.

All eufy can do this. I have the doorbell and the solar camera. They both store on device but you can store it in a central location inside if you want to pay more.

I have an eufy and wouldn't recommend it. The delay opening the app to the camera is often 30 seconds. The automations often stop working and need a reboot, but you only find that out after it hasn't been working for a few days. And of course the most annoying bit, Phantom doorbell rings (not often but a handful of times a year). Doing it again I'd pick a different product, I'd even consider a subscription service.

I went through this whole chain of thought and did hours of research. Leaving out Ring and Nest, here are your options: Reolink - Pretty good, but a little weak on the features. Tried one, will be returning. UniFi - Well reviewed, but if you want or need any of their best features, one camera is around $400. On top of that, you need their other hardware and to wires installed. This is for the enthusiast, wealthy, or willing to go into debt for it. Eufy - I viewed this one as the best compromise. There are AI features, an affordable Home Base where you can toss a cheap SSD, and the camera hardware is a step up from Nest and Ring. No cloud use. Your data is local. So the AI and software side isn't as good as Google, but they do well enough. I've got five wired cameras and a wired doorbell.

I am in the process of moving back to nest because of the lack of 24/7 recording. I moved to eufy a few years ago but having no option to enable 24/7 recording in the door bell camera is a deal breaker for me. The way nest handles 24/7 recording is just excellent, scrolling through the timeline is super convenient. It doesn't seem like a complicated feature to implement but not sure why eufy doesn't do it. Also the front doorbell goes off randomly from time to time, very annoying. The backyard camera is the eufy outdoor solar one, and not having to plug in a power cable is an amazing feature, but then the notification settings are not the same as the door bell, which is again very annoying. I have to keep turning the notifications of the backyard camera off when my kids are playing there, since it will just keep buzzing. An option to enable time based notifications would be great. And lastly, the home and away functionality is so unpredictable. I have tried all possible settings to always allow location access, etc. but it has its own brain. Anyway, I'm just not satisfied overall.

I like my Eufy too. I bought another battery, so I just swap them over .. each month! HA integration is not very nice, though - I haven't managed to get mine going and all I want is an alert if the battery is going dead :(

Ring is shite because of the subscription element, which puts people off, so they don’t pay it, so it’s ✨pointless✨ Eufy all day every day.

I didn’t think any eufy doorbells worked with HomeKit. I am happy with my camera from eufy too.

Yeah I have the Eufy one and while it’s a decent camera overall but the top camera that looks straight out is hot garbage when it comes to quality. Like maybe 10-15 feet of clear sight and anything over that is blurry. Like I have a stop sign with the cross streets probably 30 feet from it and you can’t read the street names.

Eufy. Using it for years. Love that I don't have to pay a subscription to have access to my videos. And... Its locally stored with expansion options.

You're describing my Eufy. I assume my data is secure, but I'm naive, probably.

B on 22.5 degree angled bracket. I've got my Eufy set up to face the driveway from that same side and capture people approaching door. Cam angle is wide at about 140 degrees capture door and portico as well. Bracket deep screwed to door frame for me though (timber). If it's wireless, test the various locations. That's what I did.

Wyze garbage does exactly this. Every September when the sun was just right the thing would go offline. I even installed a tiny switch to restart the thing. Went with a Eufy because my door is in white balance hell and it does a wayyyyyy better job for the conditions. Yeah Eufy comes with its own problems (and benefits) but it and it hasn’t overheated at all.

You wont get continuous recording and a battery as it will kill the battery real quick. Eufy is good as mentioned. However, you can also add camera on the homebase so if someone presses the doorbell and you decide to answer it remotely (the recording stops while you talk and view the person on the doorbell camera) the second camera will record the conversation if you need it.

Eufy records locally and there is no subscription.

I use Eufy. This is what I found regarding them Anker owns Eufy. Anker is a company that specializes in charging technology and has been a market leader since its founding in 2011. Anker sells products in over 146 countries and regions and has more than 120 million users. Eufy is a company that creates smart technology for the home. Eufy devices store videos locally and use AES encryption to secure them. Anker’s security processes for Eufy security cameras include: End-to-end encryption for all video streams No sharing of videos, user images, or biometric details with the cloud Dynamic keys instead of fixed keys No access to user live streams or recorded videos

Eufy has end to end encryption

Reported it’s been fixed and now has end to end encryption

Eufy user here as well - The camera quality is amazing but the delay is massive (about 3-5 seconds) so hard to have a conversation with someone. Notifications are also delayed by a few seconds. Sometimes it's impossible to remotely connect to the doorbell and then when it finally connects... the person is already gone. Generally wouldn't recommend :(

We have Eufy, no subscription and you can store everything locally on a micro sd

I have the eufy. In my experience the delay makes it useless for two way communication. My set up is that it's mounted to the outside of a brick letterbox. The router/homebase have clear line of sight through the window to the letterbox about ten metres away. I guess the letterbox gives too much interference.

I had a eufy as my husband works nights and I wanted to be notified if anyone was in the house. I found the notification time to be so slow. If I’d have had any intruders they’d have had about a minute before I’d have known. I went back to Blink and got the extra part so I didn’t need a subscription and much prefer it.

Had ring and hated it. Switched to eufy doorbell to match my cameras and loving the no subscription and it works great! We where notified when someone tried to break into my wife's car!

Thats what we use we have 4 solar cameras and the doorbell. The doorbell is connected to our alexas and if someone comes to the door alexa notifies us. It works really well and it's super clear even at night I was always having trouble with our ring doorbell

I just installed mine yesterday. I'll say it's a lot taller than my previous eufy one. I had to skip using the 30 degree mount because those holes are even taller and wouldn't really work for my house (tall wood slats). I can't get my MicroSD card to work at all so far, not at all a problem with my previous 8 cameras around the house. Formatting and restarting the camera isn't changing it. Same cards I've used in the others just fine. 64GB. I'll probably pull it tonight to see what the deal is...I struggled to get the cables to hide it wasn't easy to get connected based on where the wires come through.

I’d advise Eufy cameras over ring, the subscription fees for ring got crazy expensive this year so I replaced mine with Eufy doorbell camera and security camera at the back to cover my garage. Eufy have a hub that stores all data locally so no subscription fees needed.

I enjoy my Eufy since it will record locally for no fee. Got rid of the Ring due to aging and hated paying the monthly fees.

Pending the router you have, you may be able to pause or turn off the 5ghz for Eufy to connect. Had to do that for mine.

I switched my floodlight and doorbell from ring to eufy it’s much better glad I did

YES! I did, and I love it! I got mine for practically nothing off their eBay sight. It said it was refurbished, but looked and was packaged like it was new! The app is great and it’s all free! Don’t keep making Ring (Amazon and Jeff Bezos) richer and do yourself a favor and go with Eufy. I actually have the Eufy smart deadbolt and it works flawlessly! I can open lock and unlock my front door from anywhere in the world!

I second the eufy video doorbell. Also, I easily installed the 4K solar cameras, which have performed amazingly well, kept their battery levels fully charged, and, best of all, no wires!

I have Ring and it sucks. Unless you have a subscription, it doesn't save any video so unless you catch the person right as they ring the door, you'll have no idea who was there. If I could do it again, I'd do Eufy. Ring sucks

I have Eufy as well and works really well. Im in Canada and we get -40C here and no problem. The only thing is that the integration with Google home is a bit leggy. Takes time to load the stream on Google home app. I always answer using eufy app directly and have no issues. Great company.

we are kind of ok for the moment with basic Eufy stuff. The problem is though, they came on to the market with a hiss and a roar and great pricing - now they have established themselves they have jacked the price. I am also in the market but there seems to be so many options that are more capable at a way better price point. I am certainly watching this thread with interest and appreciate the advice that is coming back.

We have the Eufy one and it seems to fit your parameters well!

I’m confused by this? I never had Ring and just got Eufy. My doorbell base screws to the house and the doorbell piece clips into the base securely and you need a little tool to remove it. I don’t think it would be too easy to take without really trying to pull the whole setup off the house

Have the Eufy 24v wired version. It won't connect to 5ghz wifi, only connect to 2.4ghz. So right now it's a brick.

Eufy don't have to be hard wired to the router it can be done with WiFi as well. I have eufy cameras and door bell and are great highly recommend.

I'm pretty satisfied with the Eufy doorbell camera. No monthly fees and pretty decent clarity. The drawback is the battery life isn't the greatest, but it's easy to charge.

Yes it can.

Another Eufy fan.  My cameras have been flawless for 6+ years. My Homebase failed out of warranty but they gave me half-off a new one which I thought was fair. 

I mean, Eufy doorbells is stored locally, doesn't require subscriptions..

Yes.  Long time ring user at multi locations.  Just migrating everything to eufy this season.  Only nice things to say about fleet accuracy. Ring would constantly alert on our porch flag....but not the mailman. 

Eufy. You can get the doorbell and Homebase 2 for €130 in Harvey Norman. No monthly subscription and you have the option of having it wireless or wired.

If you don't want the Homebase you can get the camera with an sd card as far as I know but you'd need to buy a doorbell chime thingy that you plug in so you can hear if someone rings the bell. If you don't care for the chime and just want the camera you go for that option too. It's about 120 quid.

I have the camera about 6 months with no issues like the ones you're having. If you don't like the app use the home app on the iPhone.

I've had a eufy doorbell for 4 years connected to a homebase. Only glitched once with a missed doorbell in that time. Also used to report a crime with a successful conviction. So overall very positive experiences. Floodlight cam is a different story. That needs resetting at least every 3 months and because it's mains wired, I have to cut the breaker to reset it. Never liked the horror stories of Ring staff talking to children or ringing women to ask for their number. Would never own any cloud based cameras where creepy employees abuse access. Only issue with Eufy is their prices are starting to climb and there are cheaper alternatives with exactly the same feature set.

I have Eufy. No cloud, everything stored on an SD card

I’m pretty satisfied with mine as well. I bought the spare battery so there’s always one on the charger and I just swap it out. But I didn’t realize the batter is as poor as it is (1-2 weeks depending on temps) and I literally exchanged the first one I got as broken because “the battery wouldn’t hold a charge”. 😅 next one was exactly the same. And yeah, since then I now have 4 cameras outside and two inside (I foster animals sometimes and have cameras in the animals areas). I’ve thought about getting their roomba…

Eufy is what I have works great. No fees and great notifications. Make sure you set your perimeters at certain times of the year I get a lot of false notifications. Snow flakes, leaves and so on.

Eufy. No monthly fees. Best bang for the buck