Our new home came with a Ring Doorbell NO THANK YOU, they charge you for your own video. Sold it on E-bay and ____
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LOREX
Done, trust me and thank me later. Even comes with the memory card and a neat kit with angle plates should you want the DB camera angled a specific direction. Also just bought one for my son and DIL house for Christmas.
( I have a LOT of experience with all things video before I retired)
Choose carefully, TONS of options. I use the doorbell wire voltage. They also sell battery models and also models where there is no doorbell and comes with a chime.
This is the model that replaces a standard mechanical doorbell and uses the power from the house. The model number is B451AJD-E
and the white one on sale right now. I love the look too and the "plastics" feel quality
https://www.lorex.com/collections/doorbells
Below is how it shows on the iPhone App, there is also an Android of course
We have a 8ish foot entryway and the image is always crisp, meaning it doesnt get blown out by the bright daylight outside the entrance when someone is in the entryway. Really nice for an inexpensive device, I cant imagine a better image. There is a 4k model, only because of my experience with cameras in general I prefer the 2k for the doorbell since you are looking for a quick connection incase you want to communicate to the person outside. It will use less bandwidth and in theory should be a bit faster.
OF COURSE YOU CAN ZOOM AND GREATLY EXPAND THE PICTURE BY TURNING YOUR PHONE SIDEWAYS.
PS. ANYTHING involving video and peoples home wifi can have issues so user experiences may be different. These cameras are mostly good, many times its the users wifi signal when an issue occurs.
Also as another posted below this post, you can subscribe to cloud service but not a requirement and this DB camera carries no fees.
More so if you buy form Amazon, nothing to lose, dont like it? Return it.
