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The reason we're considering creating a megathread for these devices is the endlessly rising subscription fees for subscription-based cameras e.g RING discussion here shared by (Thanks for that! )
So, if you own one and are unhappy with the fees, you might find an affordable alternative for home security.
Subscription-free doorbells have several benefits compared to those that require a subscription:
As a general piece of advice, check the specifications to ensure you have the right one.
eufy Security Video Doorbell Wireless C210 (S200) Battery Kit with Chime /
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eufy Security SoloCam C210 Security Camera Outdoor Wireless, 2K Resolution/IP65 or 2 for £84.99 @ AnkerDirect UK / FBA
eufy Security SoloCam S220 Solar Security Camera Outdoor Wireless @ Anker UK / FBA (The deal is live again)
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Blink Outdoor with two-year battery life | 2-Camera System + Blink Video Doorbell
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Reolink 4MP Solar Powered Security Camera, Argus 3 Pro+Solar Panel (black or white) using voucher and code @ ReolinkEU / FBA (Expired)
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In case you need a MicroSD card for your storage you can find them here. (Make sure it's fast enough and better to go for an 'endurance' version)
18% off discount on Selected Doorbells, using Discount code @ Eufy
The reason we're considering creating a megathread for these devices is the endlessly rising subscription fees for subscription-based cameras e.g RING discussion here shared by (Thanks for that! )
So, if you own one and are unhappy with the fees, you might find an affordable alternative for home security.
Subscription-free doorbells have several benefits compared to those that require a subscription:
- Cost Savings: Doorbells without subscriptions save money because you don't have to pay regular fees.
- No Commitment: You're not tied to any long-term contracts, giving you freedom to switch or stop using the service without penalties.
- Privacy: These doorbells often let you store data locally, which means you have more control over your information and less risk of unauthorized access.
- Continuous Service: You won't lose access to features or monitoring if you choose not to renew a subscription or encounter payment issues.
- Ease of Use: They're typically easy to set up and use, even for those without technical skills.
- Accessible Features: Many of these doorbells offer basic functions like motion detection and smartphone alerts without needing a subscription.
- Transparent Costs: There are no hidden fees or additional charges, so you know exactly what you're paying for.
- Long-Term Value: Since you're not constantly paying fees, these doorbells offer better value over time for users who plan to keep them for a while.
As a general piece of advice, check the specifications to ensure you have the right one.
- Resolution: Obviously, higher is better (FHD/1080p at least).
- Field of View (FOV): The wider the FOV, the more area the camera can cover (+130 degrees).
- Night Vision: Enables capturing usable footage even in low-light conditions (at least 6 metres).
- Cloud Storage: Good for a backup solution.
- Smart Home Integration: You can ask Alexa or Google to stream live cameras or create actions when movement is detected. Pretty awesome.
- Audio: Not much to say; audio connection is possible both ways.
eufy Security Video Doorbell Wireless C210 (S200) Battery Kit with Chime /
1080p /120-Day Battery, AI Detection @ AnkerDirect UK /FBA
- Price: £69.99
- Resolution:1080p
- Field of View (FOV): N/A (4:3 aspect ratio)
- Night Vision:features night vision
- Cloud Storage: Possible for extra fee; otherwise. local storage keeps everything for free.
- Smart Home Integration: Alexa / Google
- Audio: 2-Way Audio
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- Price: £69.99
- Resolution: 2K resolution (2560 x 1920) HDR
- Field of View (FOV): N/A
- Night Vision:color night vision capabilities
- Cloud Storage: Possible for extra fee; otherwise. local storage keeps everything for free.
- Smart Home Integration: Alexa / Google
- Audio: 2-Way Audio
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- Price: £109.98
- Resolution: 2K resolution (2560 x 1920) WDR
- Field of View (FOV): 160 degrees
- Night Vision:color night vision capabilities
- Cloud Storage: Possible for extra fee; otherwise. local storage keeps everything for free.
- Smart Home Integration: Human body and face detection / Alex / Google
- Audio: 2-Way Audio
eufy Security SoloCam C210 Security Camera Outdoor Wireless, 2K Resolution/IP65 or 2 for £84.99 @ AnkerDirect UK / FBA
- Price: £44.99
- Resolution: 2K
- Field of View (FOV): N/A
- Night Vision: infrared night vision f/1.6 aperture
- Cloud Storage: Comes with 8GB storage so you don't have to pay for cloud.(Expandable StorageHomeBase 3)
- Smart Home Integration: Alexa / Google
- Audio: 2-Way Audio
eufy Security SoloCam S220 Solar Security Camera Outdoor Wireless @ Anker UK / FBA (The deal is live again)
- Price: £69.99
- Resolution: 2K (2,560x1,440)
- Field of View (FOV): 135 degrees
- Night Vision: infrared night vision f/1.6 aperture
- Cloud Storage: Comes with 8GB storage so you don't have to pay for cloud.(Expandable Storage - HomeBase 3)
- Smart Home Integration: Alexa / Google
- Battery Capacity 6,500mAh
- Solar Panel: Integrated
- Audio: 2-Way Audio
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- Price: £59.49
- Resolution:4K Ultra HD resolution (3840 x 2160 pixels) at 25 frames per second
- Field of View (FOV): horizontal FOV of 87 degrees and a vertical FOV of 44 degrees
- Night Vision: night vision coverage up to 100 feet
- Cloud Storage: Cloud storage is optional, not mandatory.
- Smart Home Integration: SMART HUMAN/VEHICLE/PET DETECTION / IFTTT (If This Then That)/ Google / Alexa
- Audio: built-in audio recording
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- Price: £32.99
- Resolution: 3MP (2304 x 1296) definition
- Field of View (FOV): horizontal FOV of 87 degrees and a vertical FOV of 44 degrees
- Night Vision: advanced night vision capabilities with 850 nm IR LEDs. It provides a visual distance of up to 98 feet (30 meters)
- Cloud Storage: local storage on SD card or Cloud video storage with advanced functions
- Smart Home Integration: Works with Alexa & Google Home
- Audio: 2-Way Audio
Blink Outdoor with two-year battery life | 2-Camera System + Blink Video Doorbell
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- Price: £87.99
- Resolution: 1080p HD
- Field of View (FOV): 110° diagonal
- Cloud Storage: local storage USB stick using the sync module or Subscription based Cloud video storage
- Smart Home Integration: Works with Alexa
- Audio: Speaker output and 2-way audio recording.
- Price: £89.99
- Resolution: 4MP - 2K (2560 x 1440)
- Field of View (FOV): 122 degrees
- Night Vision: has a 230-lumen LED spotlight for color night vision.
- Cloud Storage: local storage on SD card (up to 128GB) or Cloud video storage with advanced functions
- Smart Home Integration: Works with Alexa & Google Home
- Audio: 2-Way Audio
You can find more deals here:
In case you need a MicroSD card for your storage you can find them here. (Make sure it's fast enough and better to go for an 'endurance' version)
18% off discount on Selected Doorbells, using Discount code @ Eufy
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sorted byPrivacy: These doorbells often let you store data locally, which means you have more control over your information and less risk of unauthorized access
Simply not the case many of them still require you to send information into the cloud as they need to do that to register notifications to you as your local networks has not tools to do so - Its just there is no recording functionality so its not a blanket your data is private, read about Eufy's issues with streams being unprotected for example.
Ease of Use: They're typically easy to set up and use, even for those without technical skills
Actually the other way around cloud setup is normally cleaner as they don't need to make you do so much work to do the setup as they don't need to integrate into you ecosystem as much.
Accessible Features: Many of these doorbells offer basic functions like motion detection and smartphone alerts without needing a subscription.
All of them offer this free so feeding the mistaken view that you have to pay for this - you dont.
Transparent Costs: There are no hidden fees or additional charges, so you know exactly what you're paying for.
Sorry but again wrong Ring do tell you and say for instance Eufy who must be milking this still allow subscription and hide that probably more than Ring do
Long-Term Value: Since you're not constantly paying fees, these doorbells offer better value over time for users who plan to keep them for a while.
One missing element to this if your focused on Ring is they have lifetime warranty whilst you pay for the subscription and if a old model is no longer avaialable they will offer a new model replacement - so Long term its no so clear cut.
There are Cons to local storage which was ignored but a few are
Incorrect Setup
A nod to the comment I made about simple setup, you could install a small SD card which loops so don't get the history as far back as you might like.
In fact Ive seen on some forums some complaining about a device not recording as they didnt realise it needed sd card.
Theft
Some of the cheaper makes have sd card inbuilt so all thief has to do is steal the camera and you've lost any footage, even if its in a hub if they break in and find the hub same issue, its mostly the subscription models that also enable disablement of the device rendering them useless to thieves in resale value
Known to Thieves
Thieves come to learn which have local, which are subscription, or local/subscription and so will know how to target the device. Remember here this is more about the Video Capture side of the doorbell and if you didnt care for that you'd not be paying Ring anything anyway...
Damage
Either fire damage or simply SD card gets corrupt means you have lost any history.
Alternative Approach
Finally absolutely no information on what you can do if you want to cancel subscription but carry on with your current camera, as there are ways to capture the stream and record still without subscription
Just another option to avoid paying the increased subscription. Keep ring but without a subscription and add another camera to record.
I have the excellent Reolink 2K doorcam with 64GB microsd storage wired with a £10 24V transformer. It was easy to replace our old 8V transformer. I installed it on 31st December and I can scroll back to that date even though almost 2 months have passed!
The mobile app on android is excellent, I scrubbed out motion detection from the sky to street so it just makes a chime sound as soon as someone walks on our driveway like the postal worker etc see below for example
If they had pressed the doorbell it would of said something else and door chime would of gone off in our house which is loud (you can set volume and different chimes)
Therefore we get hardly any false positives. I'm glad I sent back the Ring Video doorbell and chose Reolink but I would definitely recommend a 24V transformer. I think people with low voltage transformers have all kinds of reliability problems and I've had none with 24V.
It's so good while I was washing our cars my wife was on business trip in another country and she could chat to me and watch me over the Internet and with no subscription fees.
The best thing is? I use it on my 5Ghz network as 2.4ghz reaches too far to the street and therefore open to hackers. 5Ghz network only reaches to our cars on driveway so any prospective thieves have to come on to our property if they want to try and conduct any kind of hacking activities! However I do have POE wired cameras out the front too as a backup.
£68 delivered viking direct hotukdeals.com/com…984 thanks @kevann Reolink 2k doorbell with plugin chime, 64GB microsd card and excellent Android app best buy of 2023 for me!
A friend of mine runs his Ring security cams on 2.4ghz network which thieves are currently targeting see this post here hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/51938954 (edited)
I'm just about to pull the trigger on a Ubiquiti G4 Pro Doorbell. Expensive but total local control, no subscription and a great app with all the usuals you'd expect from a smart doorbell.
I know a few people have mentioned ring and eufy on the post but there’s a lot of mixed reviews especially eufy regarding the cloud server issue about data so wanted to look at another option.
Any recommendations would be great thanks a lot
Anything out there?
Night vision works by shining a infared light, the glass on the window will reflect it straight back to the camera blinding it.
Notifications come through when movement is detected within about a second.
It probably sounds like I work for Aosu, but they are that good for the money I don’t know how they do it, oh and they work with Alexa also.
heres money saving expert Martin Lewis info on this ...
beat the 43% ring doorball price increase (edited)
1 Raspberry Pi Zero 2W £17.10
2 Raspberry Pi Zero camera £12
3 Power supply £9
4 Micro SD card about £10 - I generally buy from my memory and get a 128 GB card which is perhaps too large but gives lots of scope for storage - https//ww…
5 If you are really fussed you could buy a case for another around £6
I buy 1-4 from Pimoroni search
but you could use The Pi hut thepihut.com/sea…e=1
The best guide to setting it all up is here (there are loads of others too):
youtube.com/wat…KB0
You may be able to do this all quickly or it might drive you to distraction depending on your competence and how lucky you are on setting it up. It has taken me some time but I have three outside cameras working. You can also back up the video to the cloud, get live streaming from anywhere and email notifications of movement in the cameras. Good luck and lots of patience! (edited)
Records when it needs to and instant notification.
You do need HomePods to extend the ring tone
Update:
See excessively long thread with people complaining about the Homebase 2 -
community.security.eufy.com/t/m…263 (edited)
Many of the camera systems are not secure in terms of privacy, with company staff being able to view the footage from any camera.
ADT has gone into partnership with Google, so you have to wonder why Google owns 6% of the company. Eufy base station will not operate unless it is allowed to connect to the internet, even if only used locally.
The Surveillance Station that comes with the Synology NAS was deemed OK, but with cautions, and the Apple setup was deemed good, but many points that one expects of a system were missing, and again there were cautions.
Overall, in terms of personal privacy, and not its function as a security system, nothing came out as being great
Ring can do one!
The eufy system, of which I have 4 cameras and 2 hubs, does not pick up things inside my desired zone unless I make that zone enormous.. The Ring system however, does work flawlessly, and the subscription heavy Ring has a military grade encryption, and none of the security flaws that come with Eufy.
I love a freebie, but to be totally honest I believe to secure your possessions and things that mean a great deal to you is worthy of spending a few quid on each month.