Peephole Cam

I have love/hate my Ring peephole doorbell for the following. When I started spending more time at home I got annoyed by the amount of times parcel deliveries would knock the door rather than ring the doorbell, causing occasional missed deliveries.  So when I found that the peephole camera has knock detection it was the answer to my issue. I found it quite amusing that the first parcel delivery to arrive after the installation could be seen on the camera going to use the knocker, only to find the doorbell in it's place so they ended up knocking the door elsewhere rather than pressing the bell. Anyhow it still works perfectly after many years but...... The price increases over the years are ridiculous and the annual fee has gone from around £10ish pa to £50ish pa to be able to review video. If I could find a bell that offered the same functionality without the subscription then I would switch.

Get the battery plus wired if you can. If not wired. Never go with battery only. It’s a pain.

We have ring and are in a low traffic area. The subscription part sucks. Ours is a removable charge one. It lasts about 2/3 months with us looking at the live feed about once a day depending. If we were to get them again we'd look elsewhere mainly because of the subscription part.

Ring has battery powered doorbells. So, you could mount to the brick without wiring. And if you want a chime inside your house in addition to the app notifications, they have that too. Chime plugs into a wall outlet inside and chimes when doorbell rings.

I bought a house with ring cameras on the exterior and as the door bell. I've never like them and this has pushed me over the edge. They are all coming out.

A Ring doorbell cam came with our house. Somehow I missed how terrible they were (even tho I have been boycotting every other form of Amazon for two years now lol). Then the Super Bowl ad came out and I quickly bought a new doorbell cam that doesn’t add to mass surveillance bc of how fucking dystopian that commercial was. I’ll be disposing of the Ring.

Ring is decent, owned by Amazon so not Asian. Ubiquiti UniFi is great but it can be more expensive to get it up and running and recording. But its has no subscription fees after install and records locally.