4MP Smart Home WiFi Video Doorbell Camera with Human Detection

Does everything as advertised well and comes with everything you need. I'm not sure how it would work in old homes, but my home is a little over a year old with all modern wiring with a simple mechanical chime. It was very easy to install. Just shut off the breaker, pulled old doorbell switch off, drilled 2 holes for the backing plate, connected the 2 wires, and was good to go. At first, I didn't install the chime kit and noticed my chime was acting sporadic. If you have a mechanical chime, you have to use the chime kit. Was really easy to pop the cover off and install it. Only gripe there was trying to find a place for the box to fit inside under the cover. My chime is very common and popular. Nothing special. They could have put a little more thought into the shape of it so it would fit easier without interfering with the chime. I got the cover to sit flush, but if you look real close, you can see where the chime kit box is pressing against it. Maybe there's a spot I missed that might have been better, but its whatever I guess. Another thing. Turn off DHCP in the settings and assign it a specific IP on your network. If it disconnects, which it will with power outages etc, you will have to go through and find its new IP and reconnect if you are using it with blue iris or a nvr. It worked well with my Amcrest NVR, but I recently outgrew the 8 camera limit on it and wanted something better so I now use it with Blue Iris on a old computer I have. Neither have had issues connecting to this, displaying live feed, recording, or 2 way talk. It is extremely sensitive to movement, but I live out in a pretty rural area so it doesn't bug me. I actually wish my other cameras were just as sensitive as this one. The picture quality is pretty good. It is nothing crazy, but it is more than enough to get the job done. I'm not one to hyper analyze the picture quality. The only thing I do wish is that the viewing angle was even wider than it already is. I know it would look like a fish bowl if it did, but I wouldn't mind being able to see more. The viewing angle is pretty wide and it does fish bowl a little, I just wish it was even more so lol. The Amcrest Smart home app is actually really nice. I use it for the doorbell specifically. I don't know why Amcrest can't just do away with their other app and just use it for all their cameras. I could never get the smart home app to work with the NVR or any of my wired IP cameras. I digress though... If you are looking for a solid and easy doorbell camera that doesn't have a subscription and that just works, get this. I have enjoyed all my amcrest products so far except the NVR. Blue Iris changed my life lol

I've been considering this doorbell for months to replace my peeling old Nest Hello, following good reviews, its ability to be integrated with Home Assistant and Blue Iris. As Amcrest drop the price on it every few months, I was in no rush and when then finally did I ordered it - worth noting I'm in the UK. About a week later it arrived and I've just spent the last 2 hours fitting and then removing the thing, so that I can return it. Once I'd installed it and finally removed the plastic covering the lens I noticed a crack right across it and the lame attempt at securing the doorbell from thieves can be easily defeated with the slightest bit of pressure... It's laughably useless. However, what really cemented that it was going back was the god awful Android app. It's a mess and thrown together. Really it needs completely rebuilding from the ground up. I'd list all of its failings here, but the email I sent with them all in to Amcrest was about 3 pages long. As a positive, the picture quality of the doorbell is great, shame that you'll have to constantly tell the app every time you open it to show you HD rather than some crappy SD quality. Yes, I could have messed about getting it working how I wanted in HA and Blue Iris, but that isn't going to gain me WAF - Amcrest's app needs to work out of the box and work well first and foremost, which is doesn't. First and last time I'll buy an Amcrest product. Looks like I'm stuck with Nest and paying for their cloud subscription for another year... Do yourself and family a favour and don't buy this crap. If you really must, set yourself an alert on Camelcamelcamel and save about $20 when they drop the price again in a month or so.

This is the third video doorbell I've installed. I started with Ring, switched to Nest, and now have gone with the AD410. Ring and Nest were pretty much equivalent, but I have Google hubs in my house, and Nest works better with those. Installation of all three doorbells was pretty easy. I will say the Amcrest had a simpler chime module than Nest. Nest required some re-routing of wires in the chime fixture, while Amcrest only attached alongside existing wires. However, the AD410 is better than either. At 4MP resolution the image is much clearer. On top of that, the colors and vibrancy is better. I attached two screen caps as examples, one from Nest and one from Amcrest. Both of these are zoom-ins to a tiny portion of the the full capture like you might do to see a license plate number to highlight the difference in image quality. The Nest image is unusable, but with the Amcrest you can clearly read the letters on the stop sign. The final big difference, and the reason I switched to the AD410, is I use Blue Iris camera software with other wired cameras in my house. I was able to figure out how to get a video feed from the Nest into Blue Iris, but it took a lot of finagling. It took a lot of research to figure this out as Google doesn't tell you how to do it. You have to grant API access to in your Google account, and this doesn't work with a GSuite GMail account like I have. However, I got it working with a secondary account. Unfortunately, once you get it working it is not great. There's a delay of something like 10-15 seconds on the feed (I guess since it goes to Google cloud before going to Blue Iris), which makes matching up video feeds from different cameras very annoying. Plus, the feed regularly cuts out (again, I assume something with Google cloud access availability). The AD410 worked just like a wired camera. Amcrest's site gives clear simple explanations of how to do it, and they worked the first time. There is no delay in the video feed at all. It is definitely a total win over the Nest or Ring cameras. My only complaint might be that the motion detection on the camera is VERY sensitive. This may be due to the better resolution. There is a slider in the app which lets you control the sensitivity, but even with it turned all the way down I get constant motion triggers on cars driving on a cross street that happens to be in the camera's view. Nest never triggered on this, probably because the street was an indistinct mush as you can see. I tried playing with the camera motion zones which reduced this, but I still get triggers for car headlights at night which light up outside the areas I had masked off. I will continue to fiddle with it. Fortunately, the camera does provide great "human" detection which is really all I need anyway.

This replaced a Google Doorbell, however I was having problems with the physical doorbell not ringing originally. It was configured in the app to ring the physical doorbell. I had the doorbell chime bypass device installed. But it wouldn't work. I found out the issue was the Doorbell Transformer. I had originally put in a 16VAC/10VA transformer when I had the Google Doorbell. It seems this one uses more power while the camera works. To actually ring the doorbell I had to replace it with a 16VAC/30VA transformer. No where did I find this information except a random Reddit post. It wasn't in the manual, technical specs, or KB. I hope this helps someone. Pros: It works with Synology Surveillance station natively. This is what I wanted the most. It's on Synology's compatibility list too. The only 5ghz doorbell camera on it as of this writing (5GHZ for me is way more stable as it has less congestion). Also has h265. For me that's 54GB a day of storage for 24/7 recording. On the Synology 2-way audio and "Intercom Access Log" is supported. Cons: * It takes 12 seconds from notification to the video starting to see the camera when the doorbell is rung. On my S20+. I have 500/500mbs internet and absolutely stable Wifi. with an AP nearby. * The Amcrest Smart Home App is.... Ok. Basically functional but not really great. * Does not integrate with Google Home, Smart Things, or anything else. The old Google Doorbell would notify you with google home speakers, made it great as that rang through the house. * The design is a solid black bar with a led ring you can't see during the day. This means some people get confused by it and presses the Camera lens instead. Really should make it more obvious.

Functionally speaking, this doorbell cam is great. It did what I needed, was easy to install, was a good form factor and looked slick, and overall (despite the price tag) was solid value. Integrates great with home assistant too. However, after having used the doorbell for about a year, it suddenly stopped working out of nowhere. I attempted to reset it multiple times without any luck and eventually reached out to Amcrest directly. As it turns out, their warranty caps out at 1 year and they are completely unwilling to replace the camera despite standard use after installation. Even with the performance of the doorbell cam, I cannot recommend it. You are spending nearly $150 for a doorbell that, should it break after the 1 year warranty period, will have no support from the manufacturer even if it is 100% a manufacturer defect. It's not worth the hassle and it's not worth the frustration, and you should spend your money with a company that respects you enough to stand behind their products long after 1 year. And at this price point you have quite a few other options.

I've been experiencing some wifi issues. Have it on 5Ghz permanently and getting drop offs but not convinced it's the doorbell, more likely to be either traffic shaping by IPS, oversubscription to the wifi channel, or long shot some deauth shenanigans. Happens between 4 and 7pm primarily. These all need further investigation. Al WIFI devices can experience intermittent problems. Advantage of this camera is that it is locally recording to a microsd, so despite dropouts, all detected events continue to be recorded. For my personal use, I just want to record events over and above be notified there is someone at the door and talk to them. So despite some WIFI problems, this device meets my needs. If I wanted a rock solid doorbell camera to conduct doorbell camera interactions, I'd go POE. The motion detection is very accurate. The picture quality is very good. This is a doorbell camera and not a security camera. So the IR lights only really light up close to the door. However, I've expanded the range of the camera's night vision by pointing a 12v IR light onto the front drive. I power the camera with a 16VAC power supply rated at .6amps. It functions solidly and no drop-outs. This has been a popular doorbell camera for some time so there is an abundance of tips and tricks out there. It's solid but personally, if I was after a doorbell camera for real-time interaction, I'd go for POE. UPDATE 6 months later: I finally pinned down the cause of drop-outs. It wasn't the Amcrest as I suspected. But a somewhat obscure problem... I have repurposed an old tablet as a constant viewing screen. Turned out the power supply for the tablet was failing in some way. When I swapped it out for another one, the WIFI drop-outs ended. Crazy but goes to show you shouldn't jump to blame until you've eradicated all possible causes, even like in this case, the most obscure and unexpected. So... in all ways, this doorbell camera has proved faultless for my purposes.

Based on the specs and some of the more tech-savvy reviewers, I had high hopes that this would replace my OG Nest Hello DB that bit the dust recently. After playing around with some clearly mid-to-low range options I was ready to move up to a quality product that could be recorded locally and didn't require a subscription. The product look, fit, finish, and packaging are all well done. It's a nice piece of kit, and I especially like the the 5-degree side wedge option, which would have been great for the mounting location close to the end of a brick wall. Overall installation and set up is about on par with other products in this category - not exception, but not bad. Video quality is pretty good in relatively bright, even lighting, but does not hold up well in anything less than ideal conditions. No amount of fiddling with any available setting could make this handle my shaded porch with often-bright sun in the front yard, making it very difficult if not impossible to see the face of anyone at the door. Very high video compression even at the highest streaming settings I could find, meant that most detail beyond the steps to the porch was lost. This isn't really noticeable in the mobile app, but when pics or clips are exported, or when viewed on a decent monitor using NVR software, the problem was very noticable. Night video was even worse, regardless of camera settings. Immediately after installation, the doorbell did not trigger my indoor chimes. There were zero settings in the mobile app to enable, disable, or troubleshoot this feature. It took two days of digging before I found the POST API that allowed sending commands through browser URLs to enable the indoor chime feature (NOT via a browser UI, which does not exist for this product - there's a difference, and if you don't know what this means already, this product is not for you). Even after that, with the Chime Kit properly installed, getting a doorbell ring in the house was hit-and-miss. Beyond that, generally, things were... mostly okay. Video (such as it was) was recorded and saved, and could be played back, and most of the time the doorbell rang when pressed. But in the end I could not see living with this long-term as my front doorbell and video security camera, especially for the cost. The video quality was not very good, it was hard to make out faces, the intermittent chime operation was concerning, and there were simply too many features missing from the mobile app that required using other software or obscure methods of control. Very tech-savvy people who don't mind all of that might be happy with this product, or be able to get something out of that the average consumer cannot, at least not easily. And it might be good enough, if the ONLY things you want are the doorbell and camera, and you're not looking for an efficient user interface for an ecosystem of integrated cameras and other security products. Otherwise, I'd recommend exploring some of the other options out there that are faster and easier to set up, configure, and control.

Using exploding battery technology in a device that is made for use, in all cases, outdoors... 😞 Overview: Worked well for about five months. Not many serious complaints in that time frame other than the fact the chime never worked. Yes, I installed the chime kit, but after thinking about it for nearly ten seconds I decided it's fine because our phones ring and then I don't have three toddlers sprinting for the door every time someone pushes the button... didn't investigate further. Leave the porch light on or you will get nonstop motion notifications all night. Honestly, for me, this was just a reminder to turn the porch light on when it got dark which I leave on at night anyway. One neighborhood cat visits my doorstep several nights each week between 2am and 4am. It is incorrectly identified as a human every time, so I get that notification. Sometimes my mother-in-law's dog is identified as a human as well. To my knowledge, no other animals have been identified as human. Overall the human notifications work well, especially when people show up and knock instead of ringing the bell. The Good: Never dropped off WiFi (I do have enterprise WAPs in my home, though) Picture is pretty decent for a doorbell Works well standalone with SD card App is pretty good overall Motion and human detection individually configurable Night vision is average Three grape-jelly-fingered toddlers have managed to destroy everything in and on the house, except this doorbell The Bad: After five months the battery exploded and shorted out the doorbell. The shorted out doorbell pulled the transformer voltage down to 1.6 volts and caused it to get quite hot. The exploded battery forced the doorbell's plastic case halves apart and broke the threaded holes (circled in picture). I was able to remove the exploded battery completely and reinstall the doorbell using only four of the eight case screws. So far it appears to work normally. For about two weeks the right 1/4 of the picture was distorted by artifacts as if there was a bad connection from the image sensor to the board, or a bad or overheated image sensor. I smacked the doorbell a few times every time I walked past it (it survived dad as well as the toddlers), and power cycled it once, to no avail. Then one day the image appeared normally. Hasn't happened since. Conclusion: For me, personally, I want to give this doorbell two or three stars. I really wanted to like this doorbell. It almost lived long enough for me to start recommending/installing it for my clients. It would be four or five stars if it didn't have the exploding battery. For most people, an exploding doorbell is trash. Most people are not going to take it apart and investigate or troubleshoot the problem. I don't know what other problems I will have with it in the future due to being shorted out and now missing a battery.