eufy Security, Video Doorbell S220 2K (Battery-Powered) with HomeBase, 2K HD, No Monthly Fee, On-Device AI Detection,16GB Local Storage, Simple Self-Installation, Compatible Devices

Excellent video doorbell system
Have had this doorbell for over a week now and it’s been faultless. Was really easy to set up and use straight out of the box. The camera looks really smart on the front door frame and the home base unit is well designed also, it was not as large as I was expecting either which was good. We’ve had no issues with connectivity, the router/home base unit is probably 10m away with a couple of walls in between so very impressive. There is a lot of functionality with the detection, you can alter the sensitivity, set it to detect everything that moves or just people, designate a detection zone, set a sleep period etc. The quality is very good, no problems at all either night or day picking out people’s faces. Our drive is about 15m long and the IR on the camera illuminates everything to the road really well at night. The chime from the base unit is loud enough to be heard throughout the downstairs and to the upstairs landing so we have no need for an additional chime repeater unit. We haven’t used the bell to speak to anyone that has rang it yet but when we set it up and had a play around it seemed loud and clear with no delay. The notifications to our phones have been near enough instant, although I expect this will depend on the mobile signal strength wherever you are outside the home. After 8 days the battery is reading 93% so the estimate of 120 days battery life is probably not far off the mark but this will all depend on how often it is triggered and what detection settings you have. The best thing about this eufy set up is there is no subscription, everything is saved locally to your base unit. If it lasts 6 years it will pay for itself in subscription savings alone.

Great doorbell / camera but still room for improvement
Overall I am relatively pleased with this doorbell camera. When making the purchase, my primary objective was to receive alerts when people come on my drive near my front door. Primarily for security purposes. I see the remote talk function as a bonus, but not really what I personally purcased the camera for. For this reason my review may be critiucal in part, however this is likely more to do with my personal reasons for buying the doorbell.Product install was very easy, just opened the box, installed the app on my phone and then followed the video guide from within the app. A firmwre update was done on the security base, which took around 20 minutes.Once installed, I found that the audio is very clear, and image quality is very good during the day, and acceptable during night time. It’s at least comparable to other offerings currently available, and likely better than.Motion detectionThis could be improved. Compromise has to be made in order to obtain good battery life. This said, some people are after outright performance (I’d class myself in this catregory). You may say I should buy the wired version, however eufy’s wired offering is older, and actually of a lower spec, and doesn’t come with a security base. I believe that this product is advertised as the successor to the original wired version, and in many ways in on par performance wise, or even slightly better in some areas. This said, I do feel that it should be improved further. E.g if used in wired mode, a 10 second continuous pre record buffer wouldn’t fgo a miss. It can take anywhere from 2 to 15seconds for the device to detect motion. more typically in my case it’s in the 2 to 7s end of this. Where I have experienced slower times is at night. Here I am referring to the time to start recording, and not the time to notify your device. I have been using the human detection option, as I live facing a street where walkers pass by on average every 5 minutes or so. I have also configured the zone to cut out the street from the detection. Motion detection should be faster in my opinion and more should be available option wise to extract more performance in this regard. All too often the video starts rolling once the person is already at your door. Based on this, if it were a criminal, they would likely spot the camera before the camera spotted them, and thus stay out of shot. I have read that an eufy PIR can also be integrated. I have yet to try this, but will likely do so in the coming weeks. I am hoping for the PIR to be a proper integration, whereby it just wakes the camera, and the camera still uses it’s own human identification algoythm too (rather than just relying entirely on the PIR, as PIR’s are also flawed in some respects). I will update my review once I have tried this.I’ve actualy found the notification time boeth once a recording has started due to sensing activity, or due to doorbell press to be be very fast, and only a few seconds at the most. My security base is about 10ft from the camera, which connects to my network via ethernet cable. I would say this aspect is incredibly fast when considering market competition.The last firmware update i have is actually 13/1/2021, so hopefully this is a sign that improvements are still being made. I do believe that this Battery or wired version with security base is currently the best on the market overall despire it’s flaws. This said, it looks like not all of the best features from eufy’s original wired attempt were carried forward to this more mature 2nd attempt.So far i’ve used this for around 1 week. I will update this review after some further use.suggested product Improvements for Eufy:10 to 15 second pre record bufferspeed up initial motion detection time for human eventsalternate angle wedge options other than nothing or 15 degree. E.g 20 or 30 degree.More options codedinto the software for improving performance for this device if being used in a wired configuration.21/2/21 a further update on battery life. First battery charge has lasted 38 days so far and theres 18% left. In my case its seen 595 events, sometimes if people have been standing at the door having a chat then we’ve had 40 or so events in a short time due to that. I played with it a lot this time and the battery dropped a lot in the first week. The weather has also been very cold lately. Im expecting that next charge will last at least 2 months now that my settings are in place and im not playing with the features. Anotger point to note is the Eufy forum isn’t very good. I placed a couple of posts with technical questions about performance with wired/vs battery configurations, and no response was received within several weeks, which goes to show Eufy don’t commit as much effort as id like to see for answering queries on there.8/5/21 after using the doorbell for a few more months, the battery lasts about 2months in my case. That time goes quick, and thus i do find it a bit of a faff having a doorbell like this. Id like to wire it in at sone point due to this.

Low epectations
HiI don’t mind admitting i had low expectations when I purchased this and was convinced I would be sending it back. I currently have a ring doorbell installed by the subscription forced me to look elsewhere. I settled on this doorbell camera. It arrived as expected and I must confess it was very well boxed and looked very premium. Installation was a breeze, so simple and exactly the way these things should be. I had the camera mounted and working in under 30 minutes. A few minutes later and Alexa was proudly announcing someone was ringing the doorbell. The notification was very quick on the app, motion zone are accurate and battery life seems to good but difficult to comment on this as I have not had it long enough.Safe to say the ring is consigned to the cupboard never to see the light of day again.I can recommend this doorbell camera, great price, great app, great functionality there is nothing not to like

Die Eufy Doorbell S 220 ist die Alternative zu unserer 4 Kabel Türvideo Anlage, welche nach 17 Jahren nun sich nicht mehr reparieren ließ. Es sollte etwas zeitgemäß, Smart und flexibel sein. Nach etlichen Stunden YouTube und Seitenweise Testberichten aus aller Welt, wie auch Erfahrungen aus dem Kollegium.Entschieden wir uns für Eufy.Keine Cloud-ZwangKeine monatlichen KostenFlexible Anwendung mit Dauerstrom oder Akku.Eigenes WLANSpeicherung der Bilder / Videos Lokal auf Homebase.Schnelle Installation und InbetriebnahmeAnzeige der Besucher oder Personen vor der Haustür auf Smartphones, Echo Show und Fire Tablet HD 10 +Die Eufy wird mit Dauerstrom versorgt und lädt so den Akku nach.Das wie versprochen der Akku nicht wirklich 180 Tage hält ,glaubt man nicht wirklich.Hierzu nutze ich die alte Leitung der vorherigen Anlage. Das Kabel lag unert Putz bis in das Wohnzimmer. Hier ist das Netzteil hinter der Couch in einer Steckdose.Zwischendurch kann ich also das Netzteil einfach austecken, damit der Akku sich entladen kann.Die Homebase steckt in einem WLAN repeater von AVM Fritz . Eine direkte LAN Verbindung ist auch möglich, störte aber am Aufstellort.Die Türklingel überwacht, ca 4-5m vor der Haustür . Diese Einstellungen werden in der App geregelt,auch die Empfindlichkeit Der Erfassungsbereich wird hier individuell durch ziehen des Erfassungsbereich -Maske eingestellt. Wir erfassen nur Personen direkt am Eingang/ Treppe auch diese Einstellung erfolgt in der App. Wird geklingelt, klingelt die Hombase und vorher zugewiesene Echos. Die Echo Show und der Fire Tablet geben ohne große Verzögerung ca. 5- 10 Sekunden das Bild wieder. Der Fire Tablet ist hier sehr schnell, es klingelt und das Bild wird direkt angezeigt.Auf den Smartphone erfolgt die Anzeige durch Push Benachrichtigung. Hier ist auch eine schnelle Anzeige gegeben, selbst auf der Arbeit trotz Stahlbeton und miesen Handyempfang ist das Bild flott da.Das Argument, was immer wieder zu lesen ist ,dass der Paketbote nicht wartet wenn nicht direkt geantwortet wird ist echt verschliessen. Von 5 Paketboten wartete vielleicht einer. Mit dem muss ich auch nicht wirklich reden. Da wir Ablageorte angeben und fertig.Die Nachtsicht ist gut und die Aufnahmen auch.Die Gegensprechfunktion habe ich noch nicht ausgiebig getestet.Es ist sehr einfach Routinen in Alexa zu erstellen für die Eufy Doorbell.Die Doorbell mit Paket Kamera war mir die 40 € mehr das Geld nicht wert. Dafür gab es das Netzteil dann lieber.Da die Eufy Doorbell wohl keine 17 Jahre hält ist mir klar.Doch so finde ich eine sehr gute Alternative zu den anderen Anbietern, zu dem auch andere Kameras von Eufy in die Homebase integriert werden können.

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