Video Doorbell (2nd Generation)

I have a 2nd GEN in that bronze sorta colour. I do like the video doorbell however the bronze colour with the elements has gone to shit for lack of a batter word. I've been looking at replacing my ring with either a TAPO or Eufy. I want something that I don't need to pay a subscription for just to view past footage.

I had the Ring doorbell cam 2020 version for a long time, luckily it picked up a Uhaul hitting my girlfriends car and ripping the entire front end off. They did not stop and kept on going but luckily my Ring picked it up and Iwas able to call the cops. Recently decided that I no longer wanted to pay a monthly fee and purchased a Eufy E340 doorbell cam. After 3 days I returned it. The app is not as user friendly, loads videos much slower as it has to encrypt every single video you open. I also noticed it missed a lot of motion, like the range isn't nearly as good as my Ring doorbell cam. It missed even more motion at night. I ended up buying the Ring Doorbell Pro after returning the Eufy. I maxed out all the settings on my Eufy and still it just was not as good as my Ring. Im ok with paying 120$ a year for the fluent app experience Ring offers. The slider where you can just endlessly scroll through video after video makes it extremely nice. If the Eufy sensed motion and I clicked the notification to open it, it would take forever to pull up the motion that is currently happening. My Ring takes like 2 seconds to open and I'm able to see pretty quickly what is happening. Now that I have the Pro version too, I am able to just swap batteries instead of removing and charging the entire doorbell. A knockoff replacement battery only cost 15$ on Amazon. I would have to say I'm pleased with my upgrade and probably wouldn't buy another Eufy product again after that experience.

Ring 2 doorbell. Hard wire kit so I don't have to worry about changing the batteries. Works very well but does require a subscription.

Had the same issues with my Gen 1 - upgraded to the newer model and moved my router closer, now it's solid. The old ones were pretty trash tbh

Same here, and I can see my full driveway, yard, front porch with the old Gen 2 and I don't use a machanical bell and no need for head to toe as I already see pretty much everything with my Gen 2. I use my Amazon Echo devices for Ring notifications/speaker.

I am going down a rabbithole of video dorbells for my new place. I currently have a 2nd gen Ring dorbell and wish to upgrade it, preferably to something with onboard storage so I stop paying for the ring subscription, plus a battery mode as my new home has 1 foot thick stone walls so I don't wish to run cables outside. What drives me nuts is that ALL the dorbells I saw, from Tapo to Reolink, have a simple clip-on mounting to the plate on the wall. To me that is crazy, as anyone can just pick it up! My current ring old camera has 2 star screws which are hard to remove and at least create some friction for anyone wanting to steal it. Does anyone know of a product that satisfies both security and convenience? help plz <3

That's sort of my problem with the ring gen 2 I currently have. So mind numbingly slow to connect to a live event. But thank you for your input