I tested 3 NEW Video Doorbells, and I’m shocked 😬 

At this point, is there a smart doorbell that doesn't suck?

If I see a review with no negative points I know that it's a paid-for review and I'm not likely to trust it. So I appreciate your honesty. 👍

Great job on this video.

The truth is important to get out there. If someone is willing to put up with the downsides then at least they know up front and are able to make an informed decision.

You did a great job!

Imagine 15 years ago HAVING a doorbell that provides HD video you can access from anywhere, notifications, and recording along with backup cloud storage. For free. And the company actually stayed in business. Now THAT would be ridiculous.

It's not just cloud storage though is it.

​@@slottybadfast8826I grew up with a knocker, no bell. I now have a bell with no camera - I'm still alive, nothing bad has happened. Imagine being so scared you need a doorbell with a camera.

@@thebrowns5337I love the “knocker”

​@@slottybadfast8826i guess a few more years and the only way to use a fridge is by subscription. Crazy world.😢

It's working how they want it... it makes them money more than the sale of the product... and most of them have no way to run it without their service... which even the free gives data they can sell (geolocation, how often you get packages, how often people come/go, how often the button is pressed... and also time of day...), with cellphone, it can track your location...

i'm here because Ring are putting up their subscription cost again, £60 a year to record 30 second clips! I'm specifically looking at the eufy doorbells and I agree, i don't really care if the Chinese government know what time I get home from work and how many times a week I get an amazon delivery.

So, Eufy+Homebase doesn't require anything outside the house? I might need to revisit that. I tried Eufy, didn't get the result I wanted, set it aside and tried an Amcrest doorbell. What I was looking for was a bell that would stream video to a 3rd party thing called zonekeeper, that I was trying out. It manages multiple camera streams, with alerts, and you can designate zones in the camera view that should be ignored. That stops it alerting on plants waving in the breeze.

Exactly, crazy that this was overlooked in this video.

That was speculated and never confirmed... This has been talked about and basically debunked.

@@1jzMKIII You need to tell that to some seriously reputable tech channels...they all apparently are wrong. With your backdoor knowledge, you need to educate them.

@@1jzMKIIIthat’s completely straight up false. Weird you’re simping for them

@@claycassin8437 Watch the video from the hook up, and then come back with all of your knowledge...

In case of theft, you would lose all your data and all recordings are gone right????

Highly unlikely. First of all some one would have to break into the house , which is possible, then they would have to locate then remove the base , which is also possible , but putting all scenarios together highly unlikely. You could make it easy for the thieves and put the base at the front door for them , but thats only if they know what the base looks like, so there again highly unlikely but possible.

Yeah no, I don't trust any company that was so insecure with their shit that, at 1 point in time, literally all you needed was a browser link to get live feed of people's cameras. There's no room for fuck ups when it comes to data security, they fucked up once already and deserve to be canned for their failure.

​@@hosseinsabouri3121they don't need to steal the unit to steal your data when you have 1 of the least secure door cams on the market.

​@@hosseinsabouri3121If you buy the doorbell with a repeater or a homebase then no. The data storage can be inserted into either of those and will be placed in your house.

If you haven't purchased yet, I'd still recommend the Wyze doorbell. Owning the Wyze v2, the only drawback that really resonated with me in this video is the SD card location. But I dotn expect anyone to steal ym SD card, and even if they did, I'd still have a full-length video of them doing so lol. But the subscription is $20/year. Pairing that with the cost of th camera, I'd have Cam+ service through the end of 2033 (9 years out) before I meet the cost of his subscription free camera purchase (the Unifi doorbell is $240). His point about the notification taking you to a snapshot is also rather misleading. It does take you to a snapshot, but from that snapshot, there is a button ("jump to SD") that takes you directly to that same point in the full context of the 24/7 recording. It's by design and makes logical sense to me. Anyway, those are. Ym 2 cents to anyone who tool this video as a reason not to purchase a wyze doorbell, if they were otherwise thinking about it.

I'm glad to hear this. I have the V2 door bell and I haven't noticed this yet. The problem I had with the V2 door bell is I didn't read in to it enough to know that it wouldn't work with the v1 chime. It never said it did but being that it is a V2 product I assumed it wouldn't remove features.

Hard to believe this one. Nice damage control though. Already returned mine and getting ready to transition away from all Wyze products. Your shift to subscription first mindset has ruined the good thing we had going. The Wyze glory days are over :(

Was about to say that 5 minute delay is some shady mcshady stuff

The update to fix this is going into Beta release today. Thank you so much for flagging this @SmartHomeSolver!

LOL😂🤣Bug, yeah right!!, what you wanted was more 💰💰💸💸🤑🤑from people you thought were potential sucke.....im mean customers!!!!

1080p is 2k.

It doesn't have notification thumbnails without paying though. Sure, that's fine if you can compensate with home assistant or something. But I'd never get one for my parents.

You have to pay for rich notifications thumbnails that's just so wrong especially if you have the camera NVR system

@@obi1998 that's a bummer, makes the google wired gen2 more worthwhile

There is indeed. It's a button that says "jump to SD" and it takes your directly to that point in the full 24/7 recording. Thus it's not really a drawback but a feature, to me.

So without a subscription, do you still get a notification from motion triggered events or only from doorbell presses?

There are a few options...charge more for the product, pay for it with ads, or pay to use it. The third option, sell a product at low profit margin and provide free and ad-free services for life...well, their sales will still drop off a cliff because they'll not be in business for long.

The only negative I can think of is that they don't use pre-existing chimes.

Unless they go out of business. Then their servers will no longer be active so you won't be able to remotely view the camera.

Bingo. This is why 100% local is the only way (for me, at least).

@@ACAIDC They are owned by Anker... They wont go out of business... They may be bought out... but they will be around for many years

Yes the doorbell would still ring the chime but not notify your phone. There are lot of ways you could not hear the chime, like you are out walking your dog or your in the back yard. Wyze set this up for their cameras so it wouldn't cost them too much for cloud computing. For the cameras it's not that big of a deal but for a doorbell it is.

Yes, I have a Reolink PoE video doorbell and it’s connected to a network switch that is backed up by an uninterruptible power supply. My doorbell keeps working even when the power goes out, doesn’t use Wi-Fi bandwidth, and has no subscription fees.

@@richardpetty9159 works with my synology nas perfectly however my other 9 cameras are 4k 8mp , I wish they would offer a 4k model

What has been your experience with human recognition? Facial recognition? I enjoy that Eufy *locally* processes the video and I do not have tons of unnecessary clips of myself.