Wyze - Duo Cam Doorbell

Lots of options out there and lots of good quality products across brands. I personally have Wyze doorbells. I'm also in the Wyze ecosystem for lots of other things, so it works for me. I have 5 of their v2 doorbells and one of their new Duo Doorbells. The Duo has two cameras (one points down at your doormat, essentially. Do I need it? Probably not, but pretty neat. All of them have a local SD card installed for 24x7 recording. No subscription required, but I do also pay for the Cam Plus Unlimited subscription for the AI detection and cloud recordings to supplement the SD cards. The v2 doorbell is around $45. The Duo is new and is around $90. The Duo comes with a WiFi chime. The v2 does not come with a chime, but they can ding the WiFi chime that came with the Duo. They can all also ding your mechanical chime if you have one. And of course you can alert G Home or Echo devices and also your phones.

Wyze is expensive? The v2 doorbell is $45. The new Duo is $90. You can use both without a subscription.

Wyze is. It perfect but best I’ve used for free I have both wired v2 and wirelsss / both rock solid for staying up and recording and voice /sound / alerts

Wyze has been flawless for me and latest model can do either wired or wireless. And dual person / package cameras. [Wyze Duo](https://www.wyze.com/products/wyze-duo-cam-doorbell)Local SD and cloud options.

I think Wyze is love or hate for people on this sub.. but I have a bunch of their cameras, including the Doorbell Duo, because I think they have a great price-to-quality ratio. There is an optional subscription that gives extra features, but they work just fine without it.

Try the Wyze duo cam. I love it. Works great

Doorbell works perfectly fine with Frigate. I've had mine going for 2+ years. There were some reolink issues historically (and I've had some issues with my Duo 2) but the doorbell is not an issue in Frigate or BI.

My TL;DR: Given a choice between a Wyze anything and a Nest I would go with Google. Longer: Used a Nest doorbell and external cam for seven years. Sold my home. Bought a new one that already had a Wyze smart lock and Doorbell cam with remote doorbell. I kept the smart door lock and upgraded to the current Wyze dual camera door cam. I also subscribed to the Wyze service. While the hardware is lovely, the software from Wyze is terrible. The doorbell after being in market for some time doesn’t tell with th smart lock. It routinely misses “events” it has no 24x7 recording feature so you can’t just scroll back in the timeline to missed events. The doorbell chimes are all mid and you can’t upload or use your own or program it. The integration with smart home stuff both HomeKit and Google home are terrible in that they frequently fail to connect. Finally it has lost connectivity when I go to check it at least once a month th over the past six months. The Wyze is a waste of money and effort. The Google stuff may not be ideal, but it at least always worked as expected and even without paying for the service you still had a few hours of content to line you could scroll back to. Which was really necessary because it n ver failed to pick up people or events.

Were you able to resolve this issue? I am having a similar problem, the mechanical chime is sounding at specific times (maybe related to unknown automations) and with certain notification (motion for car lights at night). Edit: I spoke with Wyze support. The only way to use the Duo & manual chime is if you are upgrading from the V2 doorbell with an “chime support” component. It is only available when you hit the V2 bell and not sold separately. https://preview.redd.it/qc4gsdapkzae1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fb30c27189b92152dcf70cbf86f23ff843194e60

https://preview.redd.it/770va1u6hgbf1.png?width=678&format=png&auto=webp&s=ee0614ff85f98609ea5b4c46c741ffdfc424c2f7 I'm using the Wyze doorbell successfully with the Wyze Bridge Docker container to get the stream into Frigate.

I use wyze cam doorbell with docker wyze bridge

Used to have google/nest. Now have Wyze and happy.

We have a Wyze and are happy with it.

TP-Link's Kasa or Tapo devices are what you want. Get a large enough memory card and you'll have 24/7 recording for a month. Great quality video as well. I previously had Ring, Nest, and Wyze doorbell cameras, my Tapo doorbell camera is superior to those.

Google/Nest has really great AI detection. Hella quick. Otherwise it's not really a security camera. Nice to have, super appreciate it being able to recognize faces and tell me when [friend | mail lady] is at the door. It's AI with a camera and doorbell functionality. Ahead of it's time with subpar hardware. The wired functionality let's it integrate directly into your existing doorbell so no other devices needed. If you're looking for a camera with doorbell functionality, go for [Ubiquity / Unify](https://ui.com/us/en/camera-security/special-devices). If you're looking for the cheapest camera option, [Wyze is pretty great](https://www.wyze.com/collections/video-doorbells). But it sucks at everything else. Really you'll get to pick one, maybe two from the list of doorbells out there: Good doorbell (any wired option). Good camera. Good AI. Good integrations (smart home, access control, etc.)

Yeah, wyze AI sucks ass. It's definitely a "you get a good camera" type of doorbell lol I've been rolling my exterior wyze cams on SD card and couldn't be happier.

End of story. Reolink. If poor, then wyze. But get reolink.

Funny thing is that I have a full on 100% wyze setup and they are great. Reolink is just better, but wyze is fine. For the price actually it's really good.

Same. I do have one issue with the wyze bulb socket they refuse to fix but otherwise they work great!

Yep exactly. The problem is that you cannot control the lights independently of the camera. Setup is: Wyze switch Wyze lamp socket Wyze cam v3 The switch cannot turn on the lights without turning on the cameras. The switch cannot turn on the cameras without turning on the lights. The app says it can. It cannot. I saw a bunch of forum posts about this issue, so I'm not alone. Even troubleshot it with customer service, they agreed, they saw the forum posts... The still haven't fixed it. It's been probably 2+ years.

Wyze doorbell works well

Wyze is 100% subscription to be useful.

I had wyze for 8 years and a lot of devices. Wyze is worthless without AI detections for person/vehicle/pet/package/etc. You get countless alerts for "motion" of blowing leaves and shadows. Wyze is literally the only company that charges you for that while tapo, reolink, eufy offer it for free

From a practical point of view the Wyze doorbell and interior petcam we have have been great. It sounds like others might have some security concerns? So weigh the options I guess

Wyze is a small privately held American company and their products work well

Eufy or Wyze are my two go-tos

Wyze doorbell camera. Just use an sd card

My only beef with the Wyze doorbell and other cameras is the Ai is weird. “Something moved in the frame. There also a car in the frame. I must’ve seen the car” so it alerts about a car…meanwhile there is a cat walking by. The image quality and the cost of a subscription for 99 bucks has me switching everything over to Wyze.

We use the Wyze as a baby monitor. Works well, better picture than my ring doorbell, and it doesn’t have a service attached it to it, plus it is dirt cheap.

We have Wyze ones too - they work all winter long.