Ubiquiti - G4 Doorbell

Unifi Protect doorbell has been good for me.

Yeah, I have it. The ubiquiti ecosystem just rocks. The user flows in their apps, the hardware, the locally stored data archive and security features for remote access. It's not a value brand, but it rocks—if you have money I would go with ubiquiti everything and never look back—I think of them like I think of Apple in terms of UX and core tech. If you have the network gear it's just like that but applied to security. Slick. I have something like a 16TB security drive in my UDM pro that logs my 10+ cameras locally for some months, then a rolling backup to a NAS that gives me a year+ of logging in case we are slow to notice something. It's all completely rock solid, and their wifi gear has enough juice that I haven't bothered pulling POE for most of them. I never scratch more than 40% of my wireless bandwidth. Funnily, the G4 just more than paid for itself as I was able to prove to a contractor that their guy created some gnarly property damage. It was far away but clear as day. I panned easily through at high speed to find the right time, capped the frames, archived them and sent in like 3min.

I moved to UniFi and their doorbell is 10000x better. The video quality is incomparable.

My Ring doorbell was useless. It missed events all the time, the intercom barely worked, and the video quality was garbage. I replaced it with a UniFi wifi doorbell and all those problems went away.

Native HomeKit: Aqara G4/G410 More involved: UniFi G4 doorbell -> Scrypted UniFi Plugin -> HKSV

The wifi model was horrible for me. Despite having the AP nearly on the other side of the door it had a terrible signal. I suspect the steel door is at fault but I'm not replacing the door. It looks nice. PoE was the only way I could get the doorbell to stop disconnecting. I opened the old one up and connected a 2.4 GHz antenna and dangled it out of the case just as a test. Sure enough it worked great but it looks stupid with a giant antenna that is easy to rip off anyway.

I love the G4 and the display

It’s not, we rotate between Peppa pig, Bluey, snoopy, Elmo, and Mickey GIFs and all the kids in the neighborhood absolutely love it

Ordered a g4 wifi. It had an issue and was rma. Gonna send it back. Replacement was back ordered so hopefully this means new bell without Poe for us in the same boat

Me. Just ordered 2 last week and installed.....

10000% Agree. You are trying to make one camera do the work of at least two cameras here. Get a wired PoE doorbell cam to do doorbell cam duty. Then get either as u/Curious\_Party\_4683 suggested a 4mm or greater lens, or a cameras with PTZ (with actual optical Z) and auto tracking. Reolink and Unifi make good options for both of those.

Some do. Eufy and Unifi offer dual camera options that they typically call a "package cam" I think the bigger issue is angle and height. A camera will have a wider and further view when you can get ya boi Pythagoras in on the game and angle that camera down. So it's hard to have a doorbell which must by it's very nature be lower down to see people and let them press the button.

g4 better has wifi can be powered via normal doorbell wires and isnt huge. this is a downgrade.

Well this is crap wanted a drop in replacement for g4 not something thats going to need new wires run will stick to my g4 and if it dies hopefully there will be g4 stock around for a while because this new one isnt home user friendly.