G4 Doorbell

I guess knock on wood, I've been lucky with mine. Bought the UVC-G4-Doorbell-US 2 years ago for 165 on ebay and no issues. Actually, I have purchased all of my ubiquity products, used on ebay for less than MSRP. As much as I enjoy their products, I think their MSRP is a bit high.

If you want to pay more but never worry about it again....Unifi

Disagree. Been running the G4 wifi for over a year. It works best with a homepod chime, or the integrated unifi chime, but it's rock solid.

You can still import the unifi feed into HomeKit using scripted. It’s what I do. Also, I don’t consider it ‘locked’ into an ecosystem if it’s legit better than everything else.

My older G4 (non-pro) doorbells have worked fine for years, until one just died in September. I quickly picked up a G4 Pro POE as I'm going to wire Ethernet 20 feet to my door, but I haven't installed it yet as the Pro is total overkill for my use. I don't need a separate package camera, NFC reader, fingerprint reader. At the same time I am sick of WiFi with a doorbell camera. I need reliability and that's not WiFi's strongest suit. I'm holding out for the new Doorbell Lite.

That would be me. My front door is 12 feet from my network closet under the stairs. Two small holes drilled and I have POE. I have a G4 doorbell there now that will move to the back door to replace one that died. I WFH so I'm not fussy about a package camera, the main camera captures it just fine. Do not need access control as that would require replacement of my front door and jamb. Old fashioned key still works fine.

I can't speak for 'people' but my G4 doorbells have been terrible with WiFi. The front door one is 12 feet from an AP but still shows signal strength issues. The antennae in the original G4s was pretty poor. There are plenty of how to articles on replacing them here on Reddit and ending up with fantastic signal.

After using the original G4 (not Pro) doorbells, I will never use a WiFi doorbell again. It is POE all the way and I will buy once cry once on running ethernet. One of my G4 doorbells just died after 3 years. Both doorbells constantly disconnecting/reconnecting even though they are each 10-12 feet away from an AP. I bought a G4 Pro POE for $379 to replace my dead G4 (because they don't sell the POE without the Chime). Turns out I could have waited until the Doorbell Lite ships as that is pretty much like an improved G4 with POE. I am deciding whether to resell the G4 Pro POE. I don't need a fingerprint reader and additional package camera, but I am concerned about being without one of my doorbells for months.

I have 2 G4 Doorbells and will be replacing one with the Doorbell Lite. The doorbells have 2 settings: 1. When to record - Always, Custom or Never. I have it set to Always. (note that this only enables in conjunction with setting #2) 2. Recording Mode - Continuous, Events Only or Adaptive. I use Events only so it only records when triggered by motion. So if you had #1 set to Custom 7 AM to 7 PM, and someone came up to your door at 7:10 PM, no recording would occur. This vs. Pro: I actually bought a Pro POE a couple months back. I will not be installing it, too big and I don't need a dedicated package camera and fingerprint reader. The use case for the Pro is business facilities and rich homeowners.

Seems too dang big. I don’t want a doorbell that quite so massive. I don’t really need a screen on… a doorbell. I’m happy with the g4 doorbell. (Non pro). Better camera would be nice but meh. It’s good enough now. Frankly I’m thrilled that it’s POE… I wish my current one was. It does need to be white, however. I’m not sticking a black monstrosity on my front wall. I’m sure it’s fine with some houses, but not mine.

My unifi one picks up stuff everywhere, love it

Looooove my unifi doorbell. They just launched a few new models