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.

G4 WiFi - you’ll have to get it second hand. Honestly the G6 Entry is my most regretted ubiquiti product. The chime absolutely SUCKS. It’s expensive. You need multiple to hear. The included ring tones are the least door bell like tones on the market. I wanted to have an easy way to see the feed on the viewer screens. That requires another £100 hub. And they are such a poor UX - they ring constantly for a full minute if unanswered. They can’t just play a tone and show the screen as any rational product manager would write requirements around. They could get better, but in a saturated market there are much better options out there with feature sets now, than hoped for.

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...

Reolink doorbell Wi-Fi version (not the battery powered version). Use with Wi-Fi 5. Hardwire it... I know you don't want to deal with hardwiring but trust me you do want to hardwire it, otherwise you will be stuck with an useless doorbell, you will have wasted your money. Battery powered cameras are just useless for the most part. And if you can do PoE by all means do that instead and get either Reolink PoE doorbell or Ubiquiti G6 entry. Also manually update the firmware if you go with any Reolink model.

Best doorbell would be G6 Entry for your case (and it is the best doorbell atm IMO), Wi-Fi is just asking for problems really. But if the zone where you want to put the doorbell already has full coverage then you can do a Wi-Fi doorbell, just make sure it isn't a battery powered one. If you want Wi-Fi for your doorbell then you would need Reolink Doorbell Wi-Fi version and as you said you would need to hardwire it... But then you will be very tempted to bring that to Ubiquiti and guess what, that's $200 extra with the AI port. And you will want the AI port because you will notice that doorbell doesn't have perimeter protection or face recognition like your Ubiquiti cameras. So you will end up spending almost $400 for your doorbell, instead of just going with the G6 entry which is $200. Also if you can do PoE there's no reason to go Wi-Fi. I would just go with the G6 entry tbh. And yeah I think all Ubiquiti doorbells are PoE, don't forget the only models worth getting are G6 models... G4 is not worth it at all IMO.

PoE doorbells is far far better than a battery powered camera, there is no comparison. PoE vs battery powered is like gold vs trash pretty much. >Im not looking for cutting edge perfection. I just want to actually be able to answer my doorbell within 5 seconds or so, understand the person well enough, they understand me well enough, only a second or two of delay, and it records usable clips. I don't feel like I'm asking for much, but the 2 doorbells I've purchased definitely fail some of those. You need a PoE doorbell, so it is either going to be Reolink PoE doorbell or Ubiquiti G6 Entry (or the pro version of that). You wasted your money on that battery powered stuff, you learned the hard way unfortunately. There simply doesn't exist a doorbell that's battery powered that is reliable. Hardwired Wi-Fi doorbell is a bit better than that but even that is leagues away from what a PoE doorbell is (or any PoE camera for that matter). >small apartment You probably can't run PoE, because you don't own your property and can't drill holes. If that's the case the next best thing is hardwired Wi-Fi doorbell (not battery powered). As I said, still far from a PoE doorbell but it is what it is if you can't run PoE. If you can't run any of those you are absolutely cooked my friend. You could try using a doorbell that can be hooked to Wi-Fi 5 or 6 instead, that might improve some things but you are still dealing with trash.

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.