Wyze - Wyze Video Doorbell v2

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. 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

I have a wired doorbell and I was so pissed at Wyze after I bought the V2 wired version. It didn’t work with my legacy doorbell chime (probably because I need a transformer somewhere that I couldn’t find in my garage or basement), it didn’t work with my V1 plug in chime, and I couldn’t get it to consistently work with Alexa announcements. So I effectively had no doorbell chime. I have a lot of Wyze products (indoor cameras and outdoor floodlights) and I was so pissed that I was thinking of switching eco systems. My experience with the Duo has been the opposite thus far. It’s SUPER fast to load the feed in the app, setup was a breeze, it comes with a chime, and it seems to be working reliably with Alexa. My low voltage wires also seem to be charging the battery, but I’ll provide an update if it ever dies. I initially thought the downward camera was a gimmick but it’s actually really cool. So far, so good, I’m really happy I stuck with them. …I swear I don’t work for Wyze and they’re not paying me to say any of this lol. They’re not a perfect company and I’ve had struggles with their products in the past, but I love the floodlight pro and this doorbell seems to be a similar quality.

They sent it with some weird carrier I’ve never heard of called UniUni. It came much earlier than it originally said. I ordered day 1 as well (mostly because of how pissed I was with the V2 haha).

Camera is fast, the WiFi chime is great I don’t understand why it’s not sold separately also. It would paid great with my v2 that uses an Alexa. The removable battery on mine started to burn up when I charged it for the first time though.

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.

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

Having had both a nest doorbell and a wyze doorbell that both crapped out both in less than 3 years that we've owned this house, I can recommend against those, but don't have a good recommendation.

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

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.

The outdoor outlet uses a different voltage, so you'd have to plug in a transformer to it. Or wired into an enclosure. If you want to go to the route of using a plug-in transformer, you need a 24 volt AC transformer rated for at least 1.5 amps for 1,500 milliamps. It wouldn't look great though. I'd recommend spending a little extra and having an electrician wire in a doorbell for you. I use wyze for cameras and doorbell. It's a cheap subscription and the hardware is cheap too. So it's really expandable for your needs.