Another vote for Reolink + Scrypted. I originally bought the Logitech circle view, but there were so many reports of overheating that I mounted it outside my north-facing basement entrance and instead set up Scrypted and bought Reolink doorbells for my front and side doors. It’s been almost 3 years and I’ve had no problems at all.
Definitely mesh WiFi. And running Ethernet’s. God I would have that in the walls if I could. I have a 5400 and have 5 Eero nodes and hiding wires is a pain.
11 HomePods and they work okay as intercom system and they connect with the Logitech circle doorbell
I had two Logitechs, bought in 2022. One died in 2023 and Logitech sent me a replacement that was refurbished. This year both Logitech units started to have the glass face delaminate and both units overheated to the point where they would not come back online. Even when the Logitech units were working, they were slow to load video and late to notify on motion events and doorbell presses. I have no experience with the Wemo product but I cannot recommend the Logitech units.
I replaced the Logitech units with the Aqara G410 doorbell and the Aqara has been great.
My doorbells didn't look that bad after 3 years but the heat did kill them. One died just outside of warranty, and Logitech sent me a refurb. That refurb and the other OG died early this year. I replaced them with Aqara G410 doorbells and I've been happy with them. They've been working really well for me.
I’ve got the Logitech Circle View doorbell cam, and initially it had a few hiccup in going offline. It hasn’t happened in over a year. I also have had the Schlage Encode Plus which worked well with HK, but I didn’t like the styles. I currently have the Yale Assure Plus and love its design. It has worked flawlessly with zero hiccups for the last year. I also have a Level bolt in my garage man door and since it works with Matter now, it has been bulletproof.
One of the most common failures is due to being in a ‘hot’ location exposed to direct sun. Friends had such failures. Mine are under an overhang and positioned where there is less direct sun so I have had zero issues.
The other problem I have encountered when helping others install this project is the strength and positioning of the wifi access point, along with network configuration. Being as close as possible can help and avoiding any thick walls in between. Once I ended up improving things by resetting the router so traffic on a guest network was solely limited to the doorbell. YMMV since there are a ton of variables, spare the whole transformer issue.
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