Does anybody have a video doorbell?

[SoleBizzz]

How much did you pay? Was it easy to set up and fix onto door etc?
I am thinking of buying one because of the rise in crime around here.

All they show is someone pressing the bell. That may be useful to you, but it won't prevent crime. You need proper cctv for that.

I have a ring doorbell, think I paid about 150, was incredibly easy to set up, just needed a drill everything i G else you need to fit it comes with it.

I have a ring door bell, it films as someone approaches. Someone else locally was able to use theirs to help the police catch the person who has been stealing packages left by delivery firms.

Mines sends notifications through at motion not just when the doorbell is rung.

Thank you for your replies

Pidgeot Would ypu mind giving me a link to your video doorbell please as that is the type I am after.

GladAllOver CCTV is next on the list!

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Ring doorbell £90 on amazon

Very easy to fit.

Ours has motion sensor and alerts to that and people actually knocking on the door.

I also have a couple of cheap indoor CCTV cameras that I can move around the house - the instructions are badly translated but they were easy enough to set up.

£30 each and they are controlled by an app - they can record 24/7, motion alerts sent to your phone and you can even set it so that it sets off a siren when it senses motion.

These are the ones that I have www.amazon.co.uk/IP-Camera-Surveillance-Detection-Recognition/dp/B07FKQ24XN/ref=sr_1_2_sspa?psc=1&keywords=aucee+camera&tag=mumsnetforum-21&ie=UTF8&qid=1544739057&sr=8-2-spons but there are loads of similar ones

We have a Ring doorbell & camera. Doorbell was about £140, camera with outdoor security light was about £200. You then have a £50 annual fee on top of those. It's handy as we can talk to the postman or delivery people & let them know where to leave packages. DH is a bit obsessed by looking at it & seeing what's happening every time the motion detectors goes off. It's definitely a deterrent for thieves. Our friends caught someone trying to get in their back door, pizza in hand with a key! They had no idea this was going on until they checked the app in morning. Obviously at wrong back door. They liked our system so much they got exact same but with more interesting results . Not sure if there's better for the money though?

Ours caught someone going round trying car and house doors - sent the video off to the police.

Yes we do love it. We got ours cheap on amazon.

Motion sensor, records all motion.
Only issue is remember to charge it! We went away and battery went on it.

Love it though.

just had a quote.. CCTV £429 one camera on back and one on front. Doorbell video Ring is £185 plus £85 labour.

Who am I? Rockafella?

We have the ring doorbell. Best thing we ever bought. Covers all garden, drive and street directly outside our house. Motion sensors and can speak to people it's fab. Saves many trips to post office too! Just ask them to put it somewhere x

Our ring was about £130 over a year ago there cheaper now. No wires just 2 drill holes and take it down and charge it around every 6 weeks.

We have cctv, house alarm and a doorbell with an additional camera. The doorbell one is pointless as our one doesn’t record anything, just literally shows you who is standing on the door. You can also talk through it to the door knocker and set different ring tunes. Dds keep changing it to Disney’s little mermaid (under the sea), dp keeps muttering and changing it back
The cameras are most useful as they are fixed around various parts of the house and record continually. We can access each of the cameras remotely on our phones and see if anyone has been intruding (they never have but the one in the garden has picked up some amazing wildlife!), though there is also a monitor screen thing under our stairs with the screen split into 4 showing what each of the cameras is filming.
I think the doorbell was about £150 ish but the cctv was thousands and we pay every year for maintenance and servicing or something.
I don’t know much more, dp is the tech man. Actually, he’s not, he just talks to the people we pay to sort it all out

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Install the ring yourself, it's dead easy for the ring2 one and cheaper then that off their official website for all of them apart from the pro version!

@SoleBizzz I posted a ring doorbell up there for less than a hundred - it is a 20 min job to fit and set up yourself if you have a wired doorbell - just turn off your electricity, unscrew old doorbell, connect ring to old doorbell power, switch on electricity, download app and follow instructions.

We’ve got a Ring but have had no end of trouble with it. Had it replaced three times in a year! It’s fine when it works but as with anything to do with technology can be a pain. You also need a strong WiFi signal.