Google - Nest Doorbell (Wired, 3rd Gen)

I'm having a frustrating problem with my 3rd Gen doorbell install. I can't get the doorbell to mount to the plate. The screw holes align, but once I start tightening it, it just doesn't make the connection. Any pointers?

Big thanks! I was able to get it installed today. A bit more trouble than my (now dead) gen 1 was, but I got it. Thanks!

1: Picture quality improvement is negligible because of the wider field of view. 2: I preferred the color saturations on the hello, in comparison to the 2k 3rd generation. 3: The video quality leaves a lot to be desired. They should’ve went with a 4K resolution sensor. 4: Colors seam washed out. My Nest Hello was mounted using the wedge. I opted not to use it on the 3rd generation. The image above is an overlay of the images from each doorbell.

The wider field of view is the 3rd Gen.

Slightly distorted as they get towards the edge of the lens.

I did exactly that - a straight swap with an original Nest Hello. No issues so far…

Mine’s joined to 5ghz with no issues, with a significantly better connection than the Nest Hello it replaced. No drops or disconnections so far.

Not to mention the notifications are lightning quick now! I went from an early Nest hello to this new 3rd gen 2k and it’s amazing.

Hey \*maybe\* you'll need to replace the chime puck but I did not need to. The chime works perfectly fine on my new 3rd Gen with the puck from my old 1st gen Hello doorbell.

I don't know about OP but we can \*finally\* have conversations between the "porch person" and indoor person. With our previous gen 1, "porch person" could hear the inside person but not vice versa. And now when we have the camera showing the live view, we can hear the birds chirping. :-)

I replace a gen 1 for a gen 3 since the camera was peeling, I like the 2k though, I also noticed it catching more events and describe them accurately. We have to see how will be with Gemini

Night vision on the 2k is absolutely horrible compared to the Nest Hello

I just upgraded to 3rd Gen from the original hello and love it.

I had the Gen 1 wired doorbell and now I just purchased the 3rd gen wired doorbell and overall I do appreciate the 3rd gen better because it gives me a wider field of view. I like quality better and obviously that it works with Gemini. I feel like my notifications are much better and more detailed

I got one too. Just installed it on Sunday and replaced my gen 1 version of the nest doorbell and I'm really liking it. Plus all the new features with Gemini and better quality overall

The bracket is actually a lot smaller because it's tucked behind the actual camera itself. I would have thought it would have been as big as the camera doorbell but it's not. Installation was pretty easy too. and yes I had the nest hello doorbell gen 1 for about 6 years and this year I felt it was a good choice to upgrade to this because the camera quality got better and so did a lot of other things plus Gemini integration

You can watch the installation video from Google, but yeah it's doesn't clip in like the Gen 1 it's different but in a good way

We put the screws in the same exact place and I actually use the same screws that I had for my gen 1

I’m in the uk, and purchased a gen3 from Amazon USA site - note that the gen 2 mains power didn’t come to the uk either so this probably never will…

Needs more voltage / VA than the nest hello, which I was only running on 12v / 8 VA. Had to change power to 16v 27 VA If you struggle to find a doorbell transformer in the UK in spec, I went with this instead (stripped off the connector) https://ebay.us/m/398nd6 and then this doorbell, which I also needed to change because of the higher voltage https://amzn.eu/d/2CsGkMl Power runs through the doorbell itself and it picked up there by the nest. The doorbell provides a break in the circuit which is then bridged by the included puck in the new nest bell.

Like many of you, I've been left frustrated that Google never release the Gen 2 (and the new 2K Gen 3) wired doorbell in the UK. After doing a bit of research into folk that have successfully got the Gen 2 wired working, I took a gamble and ordered the new 2K Gen 3 model from Amazon U.S. Happy to say that install went smoothly and everything is working great! My old doorbell chime box included a transformer that only output 4V, so I purchased a new British General Bell 8V - 24V Transformer from Screwfix and a sleek (believe it or not, Ring branded) enclosure box from Amazon. I essentially replaced my old chime box with the new enclosure box and the new transformer (wired up for 16v output by connecting to the 8V and 24V pins - checked with a multimeter) I'm happy just using the visitor announcements on my Google Home speakers, so didn't need the use of a chime. Therefore, that allowed me to connect the doorbell wires directly to the box. Extremely happy with how smooth everything went. New 2K image is great. Wider lens gives me a much fuller coverage of my front path and driveway. Any questions, just ask 😊 Links to everything I purchased: Nest 2K Wired Doorbell (3rd Gen): https://a.co/d/bSwiToe British General Bell Transformer: https://www.screwfix.com/p/british-general-fortress-8-24v-ac-8va-bell-transformer-module/8707P Transformer Enclosure Box: https://amzn.eu/d/aQYmkxm Multimeter: https://www.screwfix.com/p/lap-dc-digital-multimeter-600v/793rt

I experience a delay of about 2 or 3 seconds with the Gen 3 on my Google Home Speakers (same as I had with the battery version) I noticed that connecting to 2.4ghz WiFi instead of 5ghz definitely improves the delay (the 5ghz struggled with my brick walls I think - 2.4ghz is much more reliable and consistent)

Yes that right - I have the Visitor Announcements option enabled which means "Someone is at the front door" along with a little chime sound will be played through my Google home speakers I have dotted throughout my house. I also get alerts on my phone too. Because of this I didn't see the need to have it wired to my mechanical chime, which makes the install far cleaner (just have the one box in my hall that houses the transformer) Visitor announcements come through very quickly too (only about a 2 second delay after someone pushes the doorbell)

Make sure when you Install it's in the most shady area you can. Every after noon when the sun hit mine it overheats and randomly disconnects for 2-3 hours a day

I think it's just the newer ones. My I first gen nest didn't do this. I am looking at other options now

I'm surprised no one mentions the new zoomed in notifications that you apparently only get with the new doorbell. This and the wider FOV are the most important things.

I have a nest cam indoor IQ as well and it does not do zoomed in previews like the new nest doorbell 2k does (which I also have installed). I also had the prior nest doorbell which is what this new 2k version replaced. It also did not do zoomed in previews of the event.

I had the wired doorbell that was out last year. I bought the new one as soon as it was announced, swapped it right on in 3 minutes when it came.

I was pissed how bad the gen 2 was… yeah this 2k has been great so far

https://preview.redd.it/ztur0eq8v0zf1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fa7ded5869c2059cefac041cda3388f73a107aa8 Photo compression here, but no it feels clear looking at it the gen 2 was a DUMPSTER, just blurry as shit

I upgraded from a gen 1 and everything was delayed by 5-10 seconds. Now it’s basically in real time. That alone was worth the upgrade.

Just recently switched from Ring (Ring Pro for three years wired) to Googles 2024 wired doorbell. Ring’s detention algorithm quality (person. Package. Animal etc) is poor. Lots of issues with latency when live connecting. Video captures showing as just blank black screens. Occasional dropping of signal. At first I thought I just got a lemon. Called support. Got a replacement. Still had issues. Lots of packet scans of my network and looking at signal strengths of the WiFi bands. Firewall inspections. Router logs…. Finally just decided to switch from ring to nest because because I had a echo set up with the ring and half the features I was using in the Alexa app just wouldn’t work and no one at Alexa responded to me for my request to fix the app. If you go to Amazon’s browser page and try to get to Alexa the browser page just tells you to download the app. Seems pretty clear Amazon is setting different priorities that is not Ring or Alexa. The nest doorbell was easy to install. Setup was a breeze. Had to reboot it once right after the firmware update upon install. No latency issues. Detection algorithms work great. Everything else WiFi router firewall is the same. Does it still cost money (subscription) to get nest? Yes. If not paying a subscription is important to you. Get something else but remember you are then responsible for the storage memory and security of your setup. Nest works for my needs in terms of being able to access the device from anywhere via my phone. Enough buffer days of video clips just long enough for me to access it and download it if I need to. And smart alerts through their detection algorithms. You are paying for storage. Data analytics. Secure remote connectivity.

We have a nest doorbell (wired version). Got it as the first video device when we already had a couple of nest speakers. Needed to replace the original transformer in the electricity box but got an electrician to do that. Have had it for 3 years at this stage and am very happy with it. Ended up getting 2 more outdoor wired cameras and the nest hub. They are on the expensive side for devices, but are usually heavily reduced during the sales. Works fine without the subscription but will store video for longer and ads facial recognition if you do subscribe.

They just ended nest wired doorbell I installed last year to connect with Google watch 2 and 3. Can't answer doorbell from watch anymore. Our Google home is from 2015. Ugh

Google/Nest has really great AI detection. Hella quick. Otherwise it's not really a security camera. Nice to have, super appreciate it being able to recognize faces and tell me when [friend | mail lady] is at the door. It's AI with a camera and doorbell functionality. Ahead of it's time with subpar hardware. The wired functionality let's it integrate directly into your existing doorbell so no other devices needed. If you're looking for a camera with doorbell functionality, go for [Ubiquity / Unify](https://ui.com/us/en/camera-security/special-devices). If you're looking for the cheapest camera option, [Wyze is pretty great](https://www.wyze.com/collections/video-doorbells). But it sucks at everything else. Really you'll get to pick one, maybe two from the list of doorbells out there: Good doorbell (any wired option). Good camera. Good AI. Good integrations (smart home, access control, etc.)

Wired has less issues during extreme cold. Not to mention you don't need to worry about charging lol

Fun fact - even the wired version has a battery that will eventually fail. It's used to keep the device running when power is momentarily dropped when ringing the bell. Once the battery fails, the device will reboot every time the button is pressed.

I’m rocking a wired nest doorbell, and a starling home hub. So far no issues in HK.

I've had an ecobee doorbell for 1.5 years and the thermostat for 4. As a camera, my ecobee doorbell has been 95% solid, but compared with my previous Nest doorbell it detects less reliably and has needed two reboots in a year (not a big deal). I do love the previews that natively popup on my AppleTV. The Nest (wired) obviously wasn't native and Homebridge was often falling apart in terms of using a tolken to pass it through to Homekit. As a doorbell, ecobee is amazing, it uses my ecobee thermostat as the chime and it is 100% reliable

Test your voltage at the door to make sure you are in spec. I mounted my Google Nest Doorbell 5 years ago. Not one issue.

Why does everyone always want cheap ? Then they are on here asking why things don’t work. Save yourself the disappointment. Buy a Nest or Ring. My Nest wired right to my doorbell transformer with the wires at the door. I had it installed in under 30 mins. Has been running 24/7 for 3 years.

I've had wired for a while now and it does have issues shutting off during extreme cold or hot. Maybe it's a little more resilient than the battery ones though. I would recommend checking temperature specs for both of them.

The wired Nest doorbell does have an internal battery, but it's only used for setup and to ensure proper power connectivity. It's not a perfect match for what you're after, but notably different from the battery version of the same doorbell. Worth noting that even the unifi doorbells have internal batteries. Their explanation is that they exist to maintain power when the contacts are shorted to ring the chime. Really curious if you find any that solve this differently (maybe using a button cell to cover the very brief voltage drop or something).

Yes, it's worth it. But buy the wired version!

I went with all Nest hardware when we bought our home about 9 years ago: thermostat, smoke detector, cameras, temp sensors, and eventually doorbell. The equipment is fine, but Google has abandoned the Nest app to push everything to Google Home which looks like garbage. Beware if you are not a fan of Google Home. They are not investing in Nest support and could leave you high and dry in the future. As to wired vs battery, these cameras use a ton of energy. I’m skeptical of how a battery powered option would work long-term. We paid an electrician to install a wired version and it puts off a lot of heat. The heat attracts bugs in cold months. Just a side note.

It depends on what you're looking for. I can't speak to BIFL, but I've had a Google Nest wired doorbell camera for a few years now. No subscription needed, and it saves events for a few hours. You can also adjust the "zone" in which it detects events, which I found helpful so I don't get alerts for when my neighbor across the way comes and goes.

Be wary. Many doorbells have monthly charges for video storage. I've setup a Google one in the fall (hardwired) works great. Though in cold cold winter days, the doorbell doesn't ring our physical house chime. But it still works nonetheless!

For the love of all things sane - keep your nest and get a starling hub which is plug and play into HomeKit. It just works and Nest still has the best quality and most reliable doorbell - the native HomeKit ones suck

I dislike how unclear this is. I have a Google Nest wired doorbell that is set up with the adapter on my analog chime so it rings it without a problem. I'm trying to get away from paying for a nest subscription, though - would the Reolibk wired doorbell play nice with the chime adapter that I have in place and ring my analog chime? Thanks!

My *wired* Google nest doorbell works fine in Canada regularly in the -30's C. They come in a wired and wireless (li-ion) version..

I have had a Nest, now google hardwired doorbell camera for 8 years. It stopped working when we had a power failure for 5 hours when it was -30. It started working again when it warmed up in the Spring. I had tried a reset earlier but hadn't gotten around to buying a new one. This was at least 4 years ago. I do pay for monitoring. I have another camera in my garage and one in the house. It's handy when we are away.

I have had a Nest, now google hardwired doorbell camera for 8 years. It stopped working when we had a power failure for 5 hours when it was -30. It started working again when it warmed up in the Spring. I had tried a reset earlier but hadn't gotten around to buying a new one. This was at least 4 years ago. I do pay for monitoring. I have another camera in my garage and one in the house. It's handy when we are away.

My Nest doorbell cam (wired) has never failed to identify a package.

You should get one that can ring your existing (non smart) chime. My Google Nest does this. It is as instant as the original button doorbell

Don’t get your hopes up. Nothing but Nest works properly with Google Home. Google promised to provide an API over a year ago for other manufacturers but never did. What works for me is pushing the rtsp/webrtc feed of my reolink camera to my Nest hub when someone rings the doorbell. Works quickly with a latency of around a second but there’s no 2-way communication.

In the middle of ditching nest for Reolink as well. Done with nest after their last price increase to Aware. Reolinks are recoding to the SD card, as well as a QNAP NAS in the house. And using scrypted to pipe things to Apple HomeKit to have events still recorded in the cloud (you know, in case the bad guys steal the camera and the NAS). Google Nest can kick rocks.

I like the Aqara G5 Pro PoE camera but after terrible experiences with all their other cameras, I took the plunge on some Unifi G5 Turrets and couldn’t be happier. I run Homebridge on a synology DS920+ NAS and getting Unifi into HomeKit was easier than many products that actually support it natively. Going to swap my Nest doorbells that I have setup through Starling Hub with the Unifi PoE doorbell eventually and maybe one or two outdoor cameras to get rid of my Nest floodlight cameras.Starling is great. Nest is not.

We use to have a nest, and have to say I did like it. But they greedy fookers upped the subscription so we recently changed to Eufy. Good. No subscription and the video is quality is really good. The other half did he due diligence on all this so he picked the Eufy.

I have a google nest and this does exactly that.

Makes me miss my nest.

Nest is owned by Google. Had their doorbell cam for years. They have next level playback. It's like comparing a PS5 to an Atari. I regret being a cheapskate and changing because I didn't want to pay a $5 subscription. Totally worth it and it is a much better quality product

I use the Nest doorbell, which should be able to retrofit any existing doorbell (i.e. use existing wire and transformer). It is subscription based for more advanced features and accessible from app and a web client.

i switched from the nest doorbell to Eufy and it has been so much better

Imo, they're not bad and actually really decent cameras, the only downside is their cloud reliance. If your ok with them not working when the Internet is down and not having a way to view or store footage on your own unless it's through Google's cloud they're great.

Not a complete answer but when I was using the Nest doorbell with the Starling hub I would get Apple TV notifications. This method doesn’t have HKSV

I have Google nest cams/doorbell no subscription and no other "smart home" features setup subscription is for keeping video of events past 30 days, if no subscription used, it retains recordings for 3 hours. Live video is always working as well

.. Because the sods started to charge the earth for using it. Bye nest hello reolink.

No worries shame as nest was good at one point but swapping to reolink paid for itself in no time given there's no need for a subscription

I don't need a subscription for my Google nest doorbell

Buffers for like ~~6~~ 3hrs of motion based video events. Goes off alot for lawn care

Eh I’m definitely not getting this doorbell, but Ring and Nest aren’t anything to rave about. I have a Nest. I’m likely going the Reolink route once my Nest doorbell takes a crap. I’ve read decent things about the UniFi ones too.

Have Aqara, very good and very happy. Previously had Google Nest and Arlo. Nest was kind a good but lacked connecting to Apple Home, Arlo - totally sucked

Have you ever thought about connecting your Nest doorbell to a solar panel? My doorbell has frequent traffic whether it be people or cars passing by and I haven't had to remove it to charge since I've gotten the solar panel for it (since April of last year). I actually have solar panels for my other battery powered cameras around the house as well and it works like a charm.

This is what I have running at the moment but also looking to upgrade from nest. Image quality is too grainy especially at night and would love total Apple home integration I have to say Starling hub is a fantastic way to marry Google products and Apple since I do also have many other Google devices

Google nest. No subscription great app n

It depends on what box you have inside. In most cases the existing wiring is fine. The cameras run on a wide range of voltages and will work with most. You can get a volt meter and test it yourself first, or lookup the specs on the box you have. I got my nest running with ease. The only thing is that it won't ring the chime most of the time (it's supposed to). But I have nest displays everywhere, but the issue there is there's a few seconds delay between pressing the button and the display alerting me. Many come with both the option to run wired or run off battery.

Used to have google/nest. Now have Wyze and happy.

I just switched from Nest doorbell (slow, cloud based, contains a non-replaceable battery that fails after a few years, and worst yet is the disaster of Google software…) to Reolink. I think it meets all your requirements … had it for a few weeks and really liking it.

I switched from a nest doorbell to Eufy in August. I like the Eufy better. I bought a homebase 3 to get facial recognition and more storage which are things I had to subscribe for with Google. The dual camera system has a much better field of view. The real test IMO is going to be winter. The nest wouldn't charge in the cold and outright shutdown below -25C. It had to be removed from the wall to charge so that meant for 8 hours we had no doorbell a couple times per winter. The Eufy has a removable battery that can be charged separately. So even if it can't charge via the doorbell wiring in the cold I can have a fully charged battery ready to go and then just swap it out quickly. The only downside I've found so far is the Eufy can't ring through google speakers. It does activate our door bell chime and the homebase also rings when someone rings the doorbell so it's a minor annoyance.

Switched from Nest doorbell camera to Ecobee recently. While the camera itself has been fine. I don't like that it does not continuously record like my Nest did. If I had it to do over again, I would probably go a different route.

Current user of G4 pro non-POE, upgraded from G4. Before that I was using Nest and then Ring. The video quality is excellent, on main camera and the package camera is not so, which is okay for it's purposes. Rings and motion detection is instant. It was a drop in replacement with mechanical chime. Placed about 20ft away from U7 Pro AP with excellent WiFi signal. I would say, POE version may not be worth if you have favourable conditions for non-POE version. But definitely worth comparing other doorbells in the market, especially when you are in Unifi ecosystem.

My experience with E340 connected to Homebase has been horrible! Connection drops suddenly and won't work after that. I've already replaced the doorbell once and it happened again. My recommendation is to choose a different company doorbell. I do use Eufy floodlight with Homebase and that's been working fine. I ended up buying a Google nest doorbell (no local storage sucks but having a reliable camera was more important for me).

you really need to learn what HDR is in Google Nest Doorbell

I have a Nest video doorbell. It does what you want, no subscription needed. The only thing is the history only goes back about 12 hours. Blink is another option. With it I think you have the option of either cloud storage (for a small monthly fee) or local storage (extra equipment required). But just out of the box, it does what you're wanting.

I have a Google Nest doorbell. You need to have basic tech skills to operate it. Last week the damn thing went offline and I had to Google a fix because I couldn't get it to reconnect. Ended up having to delete the camera from the app, do a factory reset, and only then was I able to get it working.

Google Nest and Ring both have options for how you get alerts and even to set quiet hours. If I recall I could set my nest doorbell to only alert a specific device like a Nest Hub in the bedroom because I could hear the bell that rang downstairs.

Same. Reolink is sharper and higher nitrate, but the HDR on the Nest was better. Still perfectly functional though, and now I don't have to pay any subscription fees or worry about Google killing it off some day.

The Nest is an awesome doorbell. Great UI and will store event for 3 hours without subscription. You can also download the event within that 3 hours. Great camera as well.

TP-Link's Kasa or Tapo devices are what you want. Get a large enough memory card and you'll have 24/7 recording for a month. Great quality video as well. I previously had Ring, Nest, and Wyze doorbell cameras, my Tapo doorbell camera is superior to those.

My nest doorbell worked great with homebridge. Could even get the popup window on Apple TV when someone was at the door.

Honestly, I went through the same. I tried Blink but the Battery would run out or there were issues with alerts. Google Nest is what I found to be the best.

Google Nest Doorbell is great.

I’m still going to get one but that’s mostly because I’m still using my nest doorbell. Wish the better camera was on the mid tier as I have no use for the screen.

If you already have a Nest doorbell and paying for Aware, maybe a new Nest doorbell and Starling Hub?

White PoE for the win! I've tried the black wifi, white wifi and nest. The Reolink white with PoE is the best one out of all of them. The only black one I tried was wifi and it didn't have package detection, not sure if all the black ones are like that. I use it with home assistant and it loads almost instantly.

I ordered one to replace Google nest doorbell. Tired of charging it's battery every second week. Don't really care about the package camera as I have two other cameras that have the full front porch in view.

Are you an Alexa or Google Assistant Person? What kind of TVs do you use? I would start here and then branch out. I use Alexa but have Nest thermostats and Nest Cameras/Doorbell. They work OK together. I kind of wish I went Ring instead so it would flow better together. The Ring doorbell may require a transformer upgrade to power it. It’s usually a small little box maybe on the side of your electrical panel. It powers the doorbell. Just an FYI. If you’re doing a Reno I would make sure this is powerful enough for modern day smart doorbells. Samsung TVs generally use Alexa so Ring is a bit more compatible if you want your cameras to show up on ur tv

Now adays there's a lot of better options, you'll get the ability to view them live, but motion recording comes at the price of a monthly subscription from some models. (I know some have limited built in recording), and you get notifications about everything you'd expect but it's expensive for no reason considering there's options that are cheaper with no monthly subscription like Reolink. You'll also get the same abilities like viewing them live from your google devices with a 3rd party camera as well, it isn't specific to google doorbells. I've had Google and Nest brand doorbells for years and have had nothing but problems from price increases, incorrect notifications, to my last straw going offline at random times without sending me a notification about it. This is unacceptable for a semi-security device.

Now adays there's a lot of better options, you'll get the ability to view them live, but motion recording comes at the price of a monthly subscription from some models. (I know some have limited built in recording), and you get notifications about everything you'd expect but it's expensive for no reason considering there's options that are cheaper with no monthly subscription like Reolink. You'll also get the same abilities like viewing them live from your google devices with a 3rd party camera as well, it isn't specific to google doorbells. I've had Google and Nest brand doorbells for years and have had nothing but problems from price increases, incorrect notifications, to my last straw going offline at random times without sending me a notification about it. This is unacceptable for a semi-security device.

No. Google doorbell is going to give you the full experience of showing you the doorbell view when someone rings the doorbell. Yes there are cameras that can technically work with Google devices like my Eufy cams and doorbell but they don't have the announcement and immediate streaming of the doorbell. It's the same story with Amazon Echo devices and Ring doorbells. You get more features when you use devices that have tight Integration. Just keep in mind that because a device might say it "Works With Google" doesn't mean it is full featured like Google Nest devices.

I just did :) In my mind it was 3 euro per month with a deal for the yearly pay (30€?) But I saw the new bill starting from 15-9 and it was €100 per year. (usually I don't look at bills) Fortunately my nest doorbell broke down, got a refund and ordered a new one a week ago. So I returned the new one and canceled subscription yesterday. I went for a eufy with homebase 3, homebase about price of 1 year aware pay so it pays for itself :) Video quality is also a LOT better! In EU was a deal at AMZ, €50 off for each device. No brainer for me :)

I've been using the Nest doorbell for about 3 years now and love it. And now with the Home app being integrated into the Google TV experience, when somebody rings my doorbell it comes up automatically on the tv. I love it.

My TL;DR: Given a choice between a Wyze anything and a Nest I would go with Google. Longer: Used a Nest doorbell and external cam for seven years. Sold my home. Bought a new one that already had a Wyze smart lock and Doorbell cam with remote doorbell. I kept the smart door lock and upgraded to the current Wyze dual camera door cam. I also subscribed to the Wyze service. While the hardware is lovely, the software from Wyze is terrible. The doorbell after being in market for some time doesn’t tell with th smart lock. It routinely misses “events” it has no 24x7 recording feature so you can’t just scroll back in the timeline to missed events. The doorbell chimes are all mid and you can’t upload or use your own or program it. The integration with smart home stuff both HomeKit and Google home are terrible in that they frequently fail to connect. Finally it has lost connectivity when I go to check it at least once a month th over the past six months. The Wyze is a waste of money and effort. The Google stuff may not be ideal, but it at least always worked as expected and even without paying for the service you still had a few hours of content to line you could scroll back to. Which was really necessary because it n ver failed to pick up people or events.

What's living room TV? and why two actions at the same time? two TVs? here's mine. this plays on my Roku which is always on my tv. note, the stream ends up taking about 10-12secs from press to stream, so it's a bit slow. the device is below is my Google nest doorbell. paste doesn't have the right format sorry. sequence: * action: camera.play\_stream metadata: {} * data: format: hls * media\_player: media\_player.roku\_player * target: device\_id: a76ea6689c1233456543221 * alias: "Doorbell Stream " * description: "" * icon: mdi:doorbell-video

You can turn off the camera on the Nest doorbell if you need to

i have the wifi one. I use tinycam pro on my google tv to show all the cameras. When someone rings the doorbell it shows up on all the google homes. I had a nest doorbell before this and bought the reolink with an nvr to get away from cloud costs. You can run it without the nvr with a microsd card but i'm happy with my setup.

Get a reolink imo Nest is good, as long as you have good wifi. But without the nest aware subscription, you are limited to event playback in a 3 hour window. With a reolink you wont be tied to a subscription

Only the google nest doorbell is able to alert through google home. You would need home assistant or some other third party integration to work with google home and be able to have visitor announcements with third party doorbells

My experience with the doorbell and user interface made me cancel my nest aware subscription. Our hub constantly disconnects from the doorbell feed. And viewing doorbell live footage is extremely buggy on our pixels. $20+ per month and worked less than half the time. For those reasons I'm out. I'm waiting out my home security contract to upgrade to a whole new system.

You also get package detection, which is my favorite free feature. I also like that it rings my existing chime. I don't mind the 3 hour history because I can download the video if needed.

In Google Home, I click on the still image of the event, which plays the video. There's a hamburger menu in the bottom right corner, and it lets me download the clip.

The house I bought has a nest doorbell. As far as I can tell with the free tier you can only look at the past 3 hours of history and it also only lets you view screenshots from events, which is pretty useless for motion events. Am I just doing something wrong?

How do you download the video? I see no option for that and it’s not even a video for me. Just a screenshot

I have a Nest Doorbell with Starling Home Hub to bring it into Homekit. I am working on setting up Home Assistant though, which blows away Homekit. The Starling Hub works with Home Assistant as well.

I added the doorbell to Google Home so I could use my Hubs as a chime, but there's a lag of several minutes. I blame Google for this. My Nest Doorbell experienced delays as well, which is why I switched to Reolink among other things. The Reolink Doorbell is much quicker with notifications with about 3 sec delay. Very good for a battery doorbell I gather.

I know you said you didn't want to mess with nest, but the Google one is really nice. You don't need a subscription, I've used it with and without the subscription.

I had a Nest Doorbell via Starling hub and now have a G4. Liked the nest but wanted native Homekit and battery powered. It’s fine, but definitely prefer vertical orientation now that I’ve had both.

We have Nest. It’s a fiver a month for the Subscription. I feel like Nest is an afterthought for Google. Barely any updates and the app can be Frustrating to use when trying to single in on something it’ll often jump to the start of that logged activity. I would look at alternatives when I need to.

Reolink is my first option. I had a google nest doorbell and replaced it with a Reolink. The nest was slow at warning me when someone was at the door and pressed the bell. I would get a notification 30 seconds to 3 minutes late and could not interact with the person at the door. I’m in Europe and I feel the google/nest servers are lagging enormously. With Reolink and its HA integration things are local (no laggy google server) and it works great.

2k resolution! Compressed 100x still looks like ass My doorbell looks great as long as you want to investigate the brick 1 inch away from the damn thing because that's what is in focus. The person standing 6 feet away is identifiable as long as you know who it is. Doorbell rang? Whatever you do don't click on the notification! You'll get the spinning wheel and the person is gone before the damn video comes up. If you go directly to the camera view through the app the normal way, after the 6 or 7 clicks you may see them before they walk away

TP-Link. I recently got rid of all my Nest gear and replaced it with Tapo. Free to use, stores data on micro sd cards, free ai tools. Way better app. I couldn’t be happier. My nest doorbell broke after a year. The little plastic knob that locks it into place stopped working. I tried WD40, I tried manual disassembly. The thing is broken. Nest products are just nice looking, expensive, and feature limited products IMO

In all honesty anything you implement won't have as good an experience as a Nest Doorbell. Why not getting a used one for cheap and test it out before deciding to splurge? The new ones about to be released so a good time to try it out. Other than, the Wyze experience you suggested is the closest you'll get. I believe the TP Link Kasa can stream video but again no video doorbell streaming on button press.

My current Nest doorbell has started to flake, so I could be enticed to upgrade. The 2k improvement definitely makes it tempting. fwiw - I have no technical issues with any of these cameras, they work as expected for me.

I have had nest and it was great, but there is the subscription and it's a bit challenging (not impossible) to get it all into Home Assistant. I moved over to Reolink and I think they are great, everything is local, no additional cloud accounts. I went with the Home Hub as I don't have a ton of camera's so that does what I need it to do and I am very happy. Great HA support also.

I have been using a google nest doorbell along with starling home hub and it’s been flawless. Had HKSV and everything, and is connected to the mechanical chime, which I can silence to not make noise. Requires a nest subscription, but it’s been great.

I ditched my Nest. No regrets.

Were you able to integrate this into google home system to use their speakers as a chime ? I've been back and forward with Reolink support currently with this wifi battery doorbell as there doesn't seem to be any way to turn off sound notifications being sent through to the nest speakers within the house  for motion/people/packages etc unless you disable all push notifications for those items full stop which defeats the purpose of a doorbell giving you notifications when someone approaches.  The google doorbell works well by ringing when pressed and simply sending silent notifications to my phone if the postman walks to the front and just drops off a package without ringing the doorbell. This reolink doorbell however is currently just sending constant sound notifications for every motion.  I've even tried making all notifications " silent " which still doesn't help the situation. 

If I uncheck everything except visitor then when someone approaches the doorbell but doesn't press the button, the camera won't send me a push alert. Google does it well where it sends me the notification, but doesn't play a chime in the house. The only time it plays a chime is when someone actually pushed the doorbell. Reolink however is chiming on all alerts through the google hub. The only way as you mentioned is to turn off everything bar visitor in push schedule, but I want to get alerts when someone comes to the front door but doesn't press the doorbell.

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

Yeah I guess every company has their issues. I think the Google doorbell spoiled me because I never had to mess with it once I put it out, I've been messing with the eufy since I bought it. But you're right, I have other issues with my other Google cameras not working sometimes it kinda sucks nothing can just work flawlessly

I can tell you from experience that a bright white google doorbell on C against a brick background, despite how visible and contrasting it is, still results in everyone knocking. I would go A and get a wide angle one

Google doorbell has a subscription as well. Didnt bother with it. So if you steal my stuff 3 hours before i wake up, the video is no longer available unless i choose to pay the sub. lol

Often people complain due to not knowing how to set it up properly. Detections along with recognition (for those using ai) are all great and acceptable. Definitely more than $300 when taking into consideration the ethernet drop, the ai port and more but I've owned 3 other doorbells (Anker, google and ring) and the UI variant although is more expensive, it does work better than any of those 3.

I have a nest video doorbell camera and mine is now 10s, probably Google being Salty I cancelled their subscription to cloud that increased! I’m ordering a Unify as soon as it’s back in stock. Message received Google 🖕

We wanted to do the exact same thing when we bought our house, wired in a nest doorbell cam and 2 floodlight cameras front and back. They are absolute garbage. I don't pay for the subscription. Notifications, if they come, are usually slow. If they are actually on time, important for a doorbell, when you try and open the camera app to see who is there it gets stuck for 15 seconds to 1 minute, making it absolutely worthless if there is someone waiting at your door. Recordings are garbage quality, usually start half way between when you would want to see an event and only stay available for ~4 hours. There is no good way to download the clips to your phone, I took a screen recording last time I needed to save one. Cameras constantly flicker and disconnect if you're live viewing them. Usually takes several tries to open the home app and refresh it to even get them going in the first place. 2 of them have completely broken to the point I had to dismount them and hard reset in the 3 years we've had them. Just do yourself a favor and stay away, I am going to switch all of mine to probably eufy or reolink once I set up my NAS.

i will 2nd the nest it sends an alert when someone is there. and i can watch live when i need it.

Nest + Starling = rock solid

Just don’t! I have a ton of respect for many Aqara products, I have two homes equipped with about 100 various Aqara devices, I tried the doorbell too but I was very disappointed. If you want a doorbell, go to Ring. They are the best. Second I’d say The Google one, it was not too bad but it’s huge.

The Google / Nest Doorbell / Camera works very well; I've had one for years. With regard to that device, Google / Nest cameras and your hub(s), make sure that you have good WiFi throughout the home. Many issues with Google Home devices are related to spotty WiFi. I use a Google router/Mesh System; it works very well. I understand from friends that the eero router/Mesh also works well. I have smart switches, dimmers, and window shades too, all is well. Make sure to buy the latest device versions, and don't use battery-operated ones if you can avoid it. Have fun and good luck!