Ubiquiti - G6 Entry

Hey there, As for the doorbells, you need to decide which one you'd want based on your needs, I'm personally waiting for the G6 (standard), I kinda like it more than the g4 Secondly, you'd need to run a cable like the cat 6a with rj45 termination at both ends for both the chime and the doorbell, as the cameras and chimes both have the only option to be powered by a single poe cable... You can have as many chimes as you want, you can also use the new poe siren as the doorbell chime (though it haven't done that as I don't have that yet) Now about the doorbell, you can have them in either of the 2x topologies; Option 1(with UNVR): Internet > Router / Firewall > PoE Switch, the following to the switch: > Doorbell (PoE) > UNVR (Protect Controller + Storage) Option 2 (recommended): > Internet > Router > PoE Switch, the following all to the switch: > Doorbell (PoE) > Cloud Key Gen2 Plus (Protect) > chime You'd need a separate controller and a router which i hope you'd already have to make the doorbell work. The cloud key stores the footage from the doorbell and makes it work... Hope I was helpful...

Personally love the Unifi doorbell cameras (it does require more than just getting the doorbell - also needs a cloudkey gen2+ or another device with the protect application installed). I have the G4 Doorbell pro and I can hear across the street and down the road. The analytics are also pretty fantastic. The models and prices are the Doorbell G4 ($200) G4 pro ($300) G4 Pro PoE ($379) Doorbell lite ($99), G6 Entry ($279) Then like stated before, you have to have a cloudkey gen2+ ($249) or unvr-instant ($200) I install this stuff professionally and while there are other great options out there this is the best ive dealt with for cost to performance.

I bought a lite for my side door and a G6 entry for the front door. Will be replacing the ring doorbell. Not as worried about the fov since I have other 4k cameras that they have to walk past to get to the front door. I think the pro version not yet released has too many features I will never use.

OK, now that it's been a while since the original announcement, even though we really haven't heard anything else since, how is everyone feeling about the new doorbells? I love the new doorbells and would love them even more if I hadn't already purchased a G4 Doorbell Pro (Wi-Fi). Now I'm trying to decide if I should sell my G4 Pro and get a G6 Entry, or stay with what I have. I have a G4 Pro that I purchased for our new house, but it's never been installed. It's been opened, removed and plugged in once via USB-C/PoE, just to confirm it was operational, then reboxed and stored. As much as I love the specs of the G6 Pro Entry, it has features that I'd never use, like the Access stuff. The G6 Entry is closer to what I'd want, but the camera is a decent step down from the G6 Pro, though it's still a decent step up from the G4 Pro. In the end, I guess it all comes down to pricing. If the G6 Pro is only $50 more than the G6 Entry, I might spend the money even though I'd never use the Access features or the screen. I'm expecting it to be $100-$150 more than the G6 Entry though. Decisions, decisions. What about you guys. Anyone else with G4 Pro, Wi-Fi or PoE, or some Frankenstein combination of both like mine; any of the rest of you planning to upgrade, or is the G4 Pro good enough to stick with what you have until it dies?

Definitely a little smaller, and honestly, in my opinion, my more suited to home users than the Pro. I'm sure there will be some that have or want Access features at home, but I doubt it's a large market. So, the G6 Entry is the one I see home users flocking to as soon as it hits the market.

Best right now? For residential use Ubiquiti G6 entry

Don't get battery powered cameras, those are useless. Reolink Wi-Fi doorbell and hardwiring it would be the best Wi-Fi solution for a doorbell camera. But the very best (by an extreme amount) is a PoE doorbell like Reolink PoE doorbell (you probably want the white version) or Ubiquiti G6 Entry.

Replace with Reolink PoE doorbell or Ubiquiti G6 Entry for best performance/reliability. Reolink doorbell Wi-Fi version and hardwire it, if you can't do PoE. Skip Ring or Simplisafe.

Ubiquiti G6 Entry or Reolink PoE doorbell. If you are talking strictly doorbell cams, G6 entry is the superior camera.

Get Ubiquiti G6 entry or Reolink PoE doorbell, software wise the G6 entry is better.  But I agree with the rest of people commenting, you want a camera instead.

Ubiquiti G6 entry. IMO best doorbell for residential use as of now. Reolink PoE doorbell is another good choice but it lacks people recognition (as in face recognition, different than detection). Reolink Wi-Fi doorbell (hardwired) would be a viable option as well but it is not as reliable as the PoE version. You can save footage locally to a microSD and/or NVR. Ubiquiti you can only save to NVR iirc. There are other methods for saving footage to a NAS as well or similar.

You get an NVR then or hub (if it is a wi-fi cam), but that's like $100-$300 or so added to it or have it recording to the cloud (but that means paying subscription) as well for backup or to a NAS or FTP server. There are a lot of options but the best ones are Ubiquiti G6 entry, followed by Reolink PoE doorbell (all these are PoE). The only Wi-Fi doorbell I'd go with is Reolink Doorbell Wi-Fi hardwired, this would be like minimum viable option. Battery powered/wireless cameras are mostly useless so I'd suggest you don't go that way...

So I’ve actually gone the opposite direction. Went back from a G4 Pro to a traditional doorbell and a G6 Instant. My wife preferred the old chime and button to it being all in one.

I use a Unifi doorbell hooked up to a UPS. My WiFi is also on the UPS. This means the doorbell is powered during an outage, the local recording is powered during an outage and I can also remote view during a power outage. If really needed, you could add a 4g backup to Unifi network gear too. 

I'm enjoying Unifi, I've got the G4 pro and they've just brought out the G6's

Max power on the lite is 8w and the g6 entry is 16w with the pro at 18 They could have definitely made the 8w lite without any questions run on 16-24vac

This basically kills it for me x.x... I don't know why they are not doing a wifi and 16-24v ac power.... It obviously sells well as the Poe kit for the g4 pro is in stock but not the wifi doorbell.

Sadly it's also Poe https://store.ui.com/us/en/category/cameras-doorbells/collections/doorbell-entry/products/uvc-g6-entry?variant=uvc-g6-entry

They seem to all be Poe only x.x... even the lite at 8 max that kinda kills it for me tbh.

No wifi unless they show it later https://store.ui.com/us/en/category/cameras-doorbells/collections/doorbell-entry/products/uvc-g6-entry?variant=uvc-g6-entry

The one I'm eyeing is definitely the g6 standard https://store.ui.com/us/en/category/cameras-doorbells/collections/doorbell-entry/products/uvc-g6-entry?variant=uvc-g6-entry Lite is interesting but the target audience of a 99$ doorbell and not having WiFi and standard doorbell two wire power seems rough.

Ubiquiti G6 Entry. I’ve had several Ring units and the REOLINK POE doorbell in the past. If you’re already in the UniFi ecosystem or thinking about it, the G6 Entry is definitely a good buy. No subscription, no chance of random law enforcement accessing your video, reliable, great responsiveness and AI features, etc. If you’re not in the UniFi ecosystem and have no intention of ever getting in there, REOLINK is a solid choice. Same advantages of local and no outside access and no subscription. Decent quality and AI features. But I would go with the POE model. WiFi for anything critical and bandwidth sensitive is a bad play no matter what brand or model. Stay far and away from anything that uses cloud (especially Ring).

The Doorbell Lite and Entry (Standard) are closer.

UI’s new offerings: * G6 Pro Entry: 220mm (8.7”) * G6 Entry (Standard): 176mm (6.9”) * Doorbell Lite: 137mm (5.4”) For comparison: * G4 Doorbell Pro: 161mm (6.3”) * Aqara G4: 141mm (5.55”) * Logitech Circle View 118mm (4.68”) * Ring doorbell: 101mm (3.98”) The G6 Pro is pretty massive, and the G6 Standard is large by any other standard. Doorbell Lite is within normal range.

I have a Unifi G6 Entry doorbell. It’s wired with Ethernet into my home network and powered with PoE. The chime is wired to a separate PoE-powered relay controller. The Unifi Protect application is configured to call a webhook when someone rings the bell. A small bit of software I wrote runs on a Raspberry Pi (also PoE powered), receives that webhook and commands the relay to ring the mechanical chime. The doorbell, relay controller, and the RPi are all connected to a PoE switch. The Raspberry Pi is also running Scrypted, which captures the chime events as well as the doorbell’s video and relays them to HomeKit Secure Video, which makes it so that in addition to the mechanical chime, my HomePods also ring and my wife and I get a notification on our phones. I like this because the wifi bits are limited to the phones and homepods, which were going to be on wifi anyway. Most of this (not the HomeKit parts) works even if we lose internet, and thanks to a UPS, even if we lose power.