Doorbell Cameras

[lunkerslayer]

I'm going to get one for my mom, now that she lives by herself. Does anyone else have a doorbell camera brand they have and would like to share their thoughts about it.

 

[LBrandt]

My door bell growls and barks and living in he sticks at 75 years old I can pee off the steps and satellite camera's would have to be dammed good to catch anything. LB

 

[johnr]

Just put one on the front door last night, haven't hooked up the service part yet, just installed the little camera ringer deal.

a few years behind, just like everything else.

 

[BrokenBackJack]

We have ours with our security system on the house.
Systems covers doorbell, house and garage thermostats, & garage door openers.
Forgot to mention covers fire, breaking glass, and alarm for open doors.

 

[Rowdie]

I'm going to get one for my mom, now that she lives by herself. Does anyone else have a doorbell camera brand they have and would like to share their thoughts about it.

I guess I'm happy with the Ring. I wish the annual was free but I guess $40 seems about right. Logging into the ring account is a pain if you have no cell signal which at work, I don't get very good. Once logged in you can access your camera as you can with your phone. I like being logged in and checking my camera live while at work.

 

[guywhofishes]

Happy with Ring - both at home and at Boxcar Junction hunting cabin. Worth the peace of mind.

 

[Davey Crockett]

With Ring can you record onto a flash drive and not enter into a contract ? That's the way blink cameras work, and you can either hardwire the cameras or use batteries. I'm happy with blink so far.

 

[NDSportsman]

Have a lot of blink cams. Early ones were bullet proof, have had a few issues with a couple newer ones but overall good value cams and nice app.

 

[Wirehair]

Use Blink cams & doorbell at 2 locations. Work well for us. No fee required.

 

[lunkerslayer]

Besides blink and ring, does anyone have different manufacturers they would like to share.

 

[Ragnar]

Put a ring on the Mother-IN-Laws house south of Washburn a couple of years ago. Over the course of a Spring and Summer watched a Moose Calf go from newborn to full grown, pretty cool. Never did see the little dudes mother.

 

[Davey Crockett]

Question for those running battery powered cameras, what kind of battery life do you get ? The energizer lithium batteries that came with my blink cameras went low in a couple weeks of high traffic areas so I ordered some rechargeable lithium batteries that have been going strong for a month and supposedly good for 1000 charges. I have hard wire for 3 high traffic cameras just waiting to see how long the batteries last before I hard wire them.

 

[Wirehair]

We generally get 6 months or longer with lithium batteries on our Blink products. Key for us was to turn motion sensitivity down so cam would not trigger with birds, etc.