Video Doorbell 3 Plus

It's unfair to compare, but before Reolink, I had the Ring Doorbell Plus 3 Wifi right beside a dedicated AP. I spent dozens of hours over four years bikeshedding configurations to make it work, at best, less than reliably. That taught me a hard lesson: Wifi + cloud-based is hell for reliability. Now I'm aiming for wired + local wherever possible in my setup, and if not, at least local. Devices that required internet connection to work are banned here. Not because my connection is unreliable (it's not), but because I don't want to depend on these companies' servers.

I've a bettery powered ring door bell, it's dead handy

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.

Ring do battery powered ones. No wiring needed. Just charge it occasionally while you're at home. I think they even do little solar panel accessory so you really shouldn't need to charge it often

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

I’ve been using Ring with Homebridge for a couple years. It works great. I even have automations that turn on my lights when Ring disarms and stuff. It’s seamless.

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.