Video doorbell camera

[Rondar]

I think I am interested in getting a video doorbell.  I have no clue what may be a good one.  I will need it to detect someone approaching and send me a notification.  Also would like live video at the time someone is in the area.  What suggestions do you gents have for such a critter?

[-gg-]

My aunt had the Ring doorbell and I was constantly having to go over and get it working again. They're usually wifi and they can lose connection

I'd get a wired security camera system. Even just a two camera one. They will notify you too and some do two way audio as well

[Eagler]

Ring

Doorbell, front driveway flood and backyard flood cameras for a while now

It's $100 a year for cloud storage

It's a great security tool that can do the things you asked about

I use a wifi repeater to extend wifi to the front devices

Eagler

[Puma44]

Ring doorbell, hardwired, here.  Never had any issues with it. Also have ring cameras with solar power.  Never any issues with them either.  Of course, on the very rare occasion when the Wi-Fi fails due to a storm, everything Wi-Fi is down. But, a rare event here.

[sparky127]

I use the Wyze stuff.  It's super cheap.  A lot of people complain about quality and reliability.  I've never had a problem.  But then again, I have realistic expectations.

[Eagler]

As they are wifi they are jammable but not a real concern for most and the average crackhead thief...

Also have 3 foscam cameras rolling..

The wife reviews the ring floods about every morning..

That's how we saw a group of losers roaming the hood checking car doors one early am..

Cameras help but so does Skyler, our 65pound pit and the 9mm

Eagler

[AKIron]

I had Ring for several years, worked well. Tried an Amazon Blink when my cloud subscription for the Ring expired because the Blink sub was cheaper. The Ring was much better at detecting only someone at the door. When we moved back to Texas in June we bought another Ring. Very happy with it.

I put a 30 degree adapter on the camera as you may or may not be able to see and with the wide angle of the lens it works well.

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[Spikes]

I use a few Google cams (2 doorbells and a floodlight) along with some Wyze cams. Google ones are expensive but very nice. I don't pay for the subscription but may just so we can have event history.

Wyze cams are nice because they are cheap. I put them indoors in windows looking outside.

[Rondar]

I'll check some of these out.  I'll be in a "big city" this weekend where I will be able to actually look at them.  Thanks, I'll see what happens.

[Eagler]

We also have the solar powered battery ring flood that has its own solar panel so you don't have to wire it to power

Works great!

Eagler

[icepac]

You guys ever wonder why the video goes to and through a server before being piped to you.

[sparky127]

Because that's the way these things work?  You think they're monitoring YOUR cameras?  Why would they monitor YOUR cameras??

[Shuffler]

You guys ever wonder why the video goes to and through a server before being piped to you.

A big reason is initial cost. Having a DVR included to hold your own recordings adds cost.You can still add DVR to some that then require no online. To access your videos from off premise you would need to setup a server though.

[Eagler]

You have to port forward your router to get ip cameras setup

Our foscams do not record as I never setup a dvr for them

Ring has cloud storage which I don't care who can hack into them ad they just show the driveway and backyard.

If I had them inside I would be more careful

Eagler

[Vulcan]

I run my own system, $30 cameras from Aliexpress, 4k/night vision/LED spotlight feature/2 way audio/PoE, all running back to a PC running BlueIris. BlueIris has built in AI support for object recognition, facial recognition, and number plate recognition.