Duo Cam Doorbell

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.

I had a Wyze Duo--really liked it. Was wifi and battery lasted about two months on average. I really liked it, since one camera pointed down and I could see all over in front of my door for packages. I LOVE Reolink, and this PoE never having to charge it, but i miss the dual cams. I can see a lot of in front of door, but not the full depth. Decent camera, integrated super easy. I use Synology's Surveillance Station and it records the video on all the Reolinks. I don't buy any of Reolink's advanced stuff or anything.

Yeah my house is pretty automated. Ive got an Alexa in just about every room, lights are controlled with plugs, and i have wyze cameras all over, as well as a wyze duo doorbell. I just dont have a thermostat. I dont think that's the "norm" but I know I'm not the only one.

I have a Wyze Duo Cam Doorbell. Works great. No Subscription. No electrical power

I have only had it for 6 months or so. Didn't have doorbell camera before this one. No need to reset or anything funky. But yours is 3-4 yearsold maybe that's all they are good for these days. Everything is disposable. It has that dual camera which is great as one points down to show the packages and one points out to see who is there or walking up

I've been a long time Wyze user. So far, most of the products have been fine, but my duo video doorbell will nod a signal. I've had other cameras and doorbells and knee exact same spot and they have had no problem

Not keep a signal

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.

Multiple angles is definitely the way to go. We have a Wyze cam that covers the driveway walking up to the house, a Wyze doorbell duo, and a porch camera pointed out a window that shows anything sitting on the porch / stairs. Compaint #1 on the Wyze doorbells is the huge amount of lag from the time that someone presses the doorbell to when you can see who's at the door in the app. We had similar issues with our previous doorbell pro cam from them. Complaint #2 is we haven't found any good way to "hang up" the attempted call if someone opens the door. Once I've opened the door, I don't need the request for a VOIP call to keep ringing on my phone.