Camera Door Bells

[fruitsalad]

Can anyone recommend one, that is not a Ring doorbell please

[Buenchico]

I can't give you a personal recommendation but this link is to a website that I have complete trust in for its independence and for the quality of its reviews:
https://www.expertreviews.co.uk/home/1407418/best-video-doorbell

[Barsel]

Another gadget where you need to have a smartphone.:-(

[barry1010]

What else would you use to view the camera when you are away from home?

[Barsel]

I'm hardly ever away from home these days Barry, but I would like to see who is at the door when I'm inside, plus if any undesirables are hanging about outside.

[Atheist]

I really don't understand why anyone would want to view their front door when they are away from home. What would they do if they someone trying to break in?

[Barsel]

Phone the coppers.

[tiggerblue10]

I've got a Ring doorbell and it's useful when I get deliveries if I'm out. I can speak to them and tell them where to leave packages.

[Barsel]

With the description and you would have the evidence.

[Atheist]

It seems to me that checking your phone regularly while you are out is a symptom of over-anxiety. And what are these undesirables that you want to look at from your living room? If you are that worried, then you have my sympathy, but I do feel it's a symptom of old age and isolation. If it brings some comfort, then go ahead, but the whole idea makes me feel uneasy. It must lead to a continual state of fear. What did we do in the olden days?

[barry1010]

My doorbell phone notification is very distinctive so I don't keep checking my phone when I'm out and about. Even when I am at home it is not always possible to get to the door quickly so it's useful to know who's there and either ignore or ask to wait.
When I moved in to this house over 30 years many of my neighbour's houses were occupied during the day, mother's of young children, retired people. People walking past to the shops, kids playing out, people chatting.
Now the cul de sac is often like a ghost town with most houses empty during the day, or the neighbours getting straight in or out of the car.
Society has changed for a lot of us.

[Buenchico]

>>> It seems to me that checking your phone regularly while you are out is a symptom of over-anxiety

The main function (from a 'remote use' perspective), as Tigger has indicated, is simply to let you know when someone has rung your doorbell. If you can see that it's someone from Amazon, clutching that bodybuilding kit that you've ordered, you can then tell him/her to leave it behind the bins (or to put it inside your back gate, or wherever).

[Atheist]

Interesting replies to my posts. Thank you.

[barry1010]

Those doorbell cameras also record motion and send alerts.
My neighbourhood group has posted several videos during the last few years of people trying to steal the cat converter, the car itself or break in to the house. Often thwarted because the neighbour has shouted out the window and called the police.
Yes, a dedicated CCTV system will do all that but a doorbell cam is a cheap, easy alternative

[tiggerblue10]

I think you have to pay some sort of subscription if you want to record stuff. Don't know much about that as I don't have it.

[Barsel]

Athiest /// these undesirables that you want to look at from your living room? If you are that worried, then you have my sympathy, but I do feel it's a symptom of old age and isolation.///
It could be a symptom of old age and isolation, I am (although I hate to admit it) an elderly lady living on her own and if I were to hear any commotion going on outside, I would be very scared and I wouldn't want to open my door or even look through a window. I would look at it as a security measure but I can't have one as I don't have a smartphone and I've no intention of getting one. So unless these things can be hooked up to a computer, I will have to do without.

[nero2024]

hey Barsel i like a good chuckle in the morning

[nero2024]

referring to ring the cops

[youngmafbog]

Well just ring them and tell them the burglar is posting 'offensive' tweets.

10 and a dog will be round in minutes.