Nest Doorbell (Wired, 1st Gen)

My 5 year old Nest Doorbell just bit the dust. Video works but actual door button knocks it out and no inside ring or video for those 2-3 secs. I've got 6 Google Nest cameras and figured once they start going out I would move them over to Unifi cameras, but just replacing the doorbell is $130 and uses 2-wire and getting POE to that door jam in the front with stucco and brick is probably more than I can swing.

That was not my experience at all. I can objectively say the v2 was a worse image for me. A license plate I could easily read on v1 was blurry in v2. Both cameras set to their highest upload setting.

I have the 2nd and it's trash! Hate it. I prefer the first gen over the 2nd. I might buy the 3rd

About three weeks ago I went from a Gen 1 nest to a Doorbell lite with NVR instant. It was a real SOB trying to run the ethernet to my door but I was able to get it done by fishing the old doorbell wire down the basement with the new cat6. With that said - the software and ability to scrub through footage is WORLDS better than google. Once they began charging me $20/mo I said I am out! I am now hooked onto unifi and will prob get a router soon. I am also adding a g6 instant now. You wont be sorry! The ONLY drawback is the doorbell lite does NOT have as wide of a view as the nest doorbell cam. It is significantly more narrow. Again on the flipside - the alerts are INSTANT. Half if not more of the time when someone would be at my door or whatever I'd get the alert late, the app took forever to load, it was SO BAD compared to this. You'll love it!!!

My 1st gen would never show live video when someone rang the doorbell. I read somewhere that it may have been due to a dying internal battery (im using wired tho). This one loads much faster