Any recommendations on doorbell cameras? I used to have Ring and it was ok. Moved and got Blink- sucks, didn’t realize it was battery only, constantly dead. Looking at Eufy from Costco- hardwired and no subscription because it uses local storage. Thoughts?
My Eufy is super reliable. I have the older doorbell and the newer basestation which I upgraded from the last generation. Is your base sation not getting a good connection? Ours is 1.5 floors up and maybe 30 feet away from the doorbell. The walls are all interior but most of what’s between the doorbell and base is stairwell. We have a security camera farther away and outside an exterior brick wall that also works reliably.
As far as the Eufy app and doorbell and camera we have, they work really well. We don’t have any other addons like the screen.
I have my mine integrated with home assistant but the integration unofficial and super hacky.
Its nice because we can have a shot from the camera pop up on our TV and smart screens (hacked echo shows running view assist) but setting that up in a way that was reliable was NOT intuitive.
I purchased this setup for the same reasons, all local.
Interesting! I’m always fascinated when people have such different experiences with the same products.
I have 4 total Eufy devices: the latest base station, a doorbell cam, a separate cam in my kitchen pointing at my cat’s food, and the smart display. They’re all connected to the base station which is hardwired to my gigabit connection. The base station is about 10 feet from the doorbell and smart display, and the kitchen cam is about 10 feet in the other direction. That standalone kitchen cam is the most reliable of my Eufy devices, and it still randomly disconnects, only works some of the time, and streams really jankily.
I wonder if I ended up with a bunch of lemons, it sure sounds like my devices are not working as intended.
Yeah, it’s weird. But there’s a lot of things that could affect these devices. Ours is Ethernet but only to our mesh point in the middle of our place so it’s not too far from either camera.
I wonder if it’s choking on the 4 devices. Never had that many connected. I do want to add more some time, but likely only one or two more cameras.
Costco had the Eufy doorbell and a solar camera on sale. Maybe I’ll try them, knowing i can return them if needed.
Just another chipping in on the Eufy solar. I’ve been pretty impressed so far with a few minor niggles.
Generally it works well, connects nicely to the repeater and rings ok. Solar works great no issues with battery power on our south facing front.
The main selling point for me was no subscription or remote server connection.
It’s annoying if it loses connection to the WiFi. I’ve actually turned the security mode (which makes it scream if taken off the wall without turning that off first in the app).