I’ve had the doorbell fitted for a few days and my initial thoughts on this are.
1) easy to set up and install. Well mine was, but the one I bought for the father in law was a real pain. His windows phone app was terrible and then his sky broadband couldn’t find the device. I think it needs its band changing. So set up seems hit or miss.
2) picture quality during the day is fantastic.
3) picture quality at night from a distance is good but get too close and your face is just a glowing light and you cannot make out any features.
4) battery life says it lasts a year. Mines using 30% battery a day with minimal use. No one has phoned me yet.
5) doorbell. The door bell rings to my phone straight away but there is a delay between answering it and getting a live feed. Again picture quality and sound a very good.
6) motion detection is slow to record. I think a cat set it off but no sign of the cat.
7) recording. This backs up to their cloud. You get a 28 day free trial. After that it’s 30 dollars a year. You cannot change the settings and record to your own cloud so you are tied in. You don’t have to have the record feature, you can still use the interaction and live features but I think the whole point of this is recording the thief that stole your car so the police can identify them.
Overall I’d give it 6 out of 10. At £19 I paid for it, very happy but I think at full price there are better options that come with free cloud storage.