Video/Door Phone Doorbell
If you want to learn more about this product, I got mine here:
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01...
I made a ten minute video showing how this doorbell works, so forgive me if I spend less time writing about it. But let me cover the important bits…
This works over your phone or tablet…and if you use a smart watch, it will ring to that as well. COOL! (Because I find I set my phone down and walk away…a lot!)
The app will come online even if you closed it out…at least that was my experience and I use the IPhone 6.
When someone comes to your door, even if they don’t ring the bell, it will record their image as long as you don’t turn that feature off in the app. So, if you worry about someone vandalizing or stealing, it will see and record them…and if they take the doorbell with them, their face is still recorded in the app.
It sees very well in the dark. The only difference is that it is grey rather than showing full color.
You can use this to check to see if a family member has made it home safe. Just go into “records” in the app and see if they have approached the door yet. Good for those of us with latchkey children who forget to text us that they made it home safely!
Setting up the doorbell to the WIFI was so easy I didn’t even feel I needed to walk anyone through it. The instructions cover the app and the WIFI section well. The other bits about this were so confusing I couldn’t figure it out myself. And supposedly this comes with an indoor receiver…if so, mine did not and I can’t tell you about that either. But the doorbell video/phone part was easy and works great!
Oh, but intercom…the only glitch, and this is common with all my smart cameras with speakers. The speaker works great! Anyone at your door can hear you perfectly. Crystal clear. If you tell them your gun is loaded and they need to leave, you can rest assured they heard you loud and clear. But what they say to you is going to be somewhat fuzzy half the time. And the delay is going to have you missing something. But they can hear you!
And if they do not leave, the app has an alarm feature that sounds like the police are coming through the doorbell’s speaker.
I hope the video helps you decide if this will work for you.
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Thank you for this review :) it helped!
Lol. How funny. That's a firetruck for the alarm.
thats good shit thanks
Is the app a battery drain..? hi Annie, a year later; loved your hands-on video. it gives a great way to view the product before buying. I am considering buying this one (over say a Ring) because i can hard-wire it. i don't like the wifi option as it can slow wifi, but also seen lots of commments about it not working on the same wifi network. My question: the IPBell app from konx seems to get feedback of being a battery drain. Has anybody noticed this!?
I have a question. I have the same doorbell and I use it with wifi but every time if I go in my house the the wifi switch automatically to my own wifi where I use my internet for so who can I solve the problem??
calos is a jerk. cant stand people like that. Good work wish I looked at this video earlier as you said so important info about the app being closed and still telling you the door bell is ringing most door bells dont do that thx
I hope somebody can help me I am from Holland so maybe sometimes me English is not that good!! I have that doorbell also and every time I go in my house the he switch automatically to my wifi where I use the internet with and then the doorbell doesn't work anymore. What do I have to do??
can you tell me the app that support powerlead doorbell
1. PMSL for the less-than-professional video. 2. Thanks for the insight; I've been contemplating one of these for a while but didn't know how far I could trust the generic Chinese units (as opposed to the mega-buck$ branded ones). As you mention, not quite as polished as it could be, but given the price of these things (well under $100), the trade-off seems definitely worth it. 3. The motion-activated image capture would also come in handy to catch a spouse who "entertains visitors" whilst you're at work. 4. Many of the problems you've attributed to the app are easily dealt with natively by Android. Alas, Apple doesn't like providing any configurability in its "walled garden" of iOS.
@yorickhunt3371
7 жыл бұрын
Well, that was "fun..." After ordering one of these devices I can categorically state that it's not for me. I can understand the average person with the average household might find it fully usable, but the security holes for someone like me are absolutely insurmountable. There is *no* way to access the device locally; everything needs to be done through their "cloud," meaning all of your data gets sent from the doorbell to China before coming back to your 'phone/tablet. This would certainly explain the extraordinary latency and means that if your internet connection goes down, you get nothing from the doorbell even though you're at home and connected to your own WiFi. It's a lovely concept, but the execution is absolutely abominable.
How u change to English?
How did you get the app for ios? When i scan the qr code it tells me the app wasn’t available for my country
Hi does that mean you cannot connect the doorbell with your iphone on a same wifi network for it to work?
Annie, I think the little black box is for PIR motion detectors.
Beautiful video, the device connects to the old bell electricity? If the device connects to the wireless Internet alone at home? Thank you
@ArmchairDivaAnnie
7 жыл бұрын
No, I hope I wasn't confusing on that. I had hoped it would, but it turns out regular doorbells don't require the same electricity, no power. So I had to plug this in to our outdoor outlet.
@ArmchairDivaAnnie
7 жыл бұрын
And yes, it is wifi, so once you set it up with your wifi password, and download the app, you can view the feed on your phone.
I like the video. Why another user complaints, I liked its nature - it's like an action movie :-) One question - we've got the same doorbell. We are able to get it working on local network, but remotely (via Internet), when someone rings the bell and we pick-up the phone, it just says - loading video and does nothing. Any trick of how to get it working via Internet/3G?
@yorickhunt3371
7 жыл бұрын
There're two things to look at; 1. It may be that your router and/or ISP are restricting the type of traffic heading out of your connection. It may also be that your mobile carrier doesn't like you streaming audio/video (I've heard some horror stories of mobile carriers preventing the use of Skype by restricting data types). Start by enabling UPNP on your router (something you should normally not do if you value your network security) and see if that fixes things - if it does, you'll know (by checking the router status page) which port(s) to open manually, before disabling UPNP again. 2. Normal 3G (HSPA) doesn't really handly video/audio streaming well. I know back in the day when I set my mobile 'phone up for VoIP, it was severely haphazard even in perfect reception areas, and even using g729 audio compression (highest compression ratio = lowest required bandwidth). If you have access to an LTE network, use that. In both cases, you should also try it out using someone else's WiFi instead of your mobile connection (for example, go to a friend's house and connect your 'phone to their WiFi).
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This product seems glitchy and crap, thanks for the review though
Clarification! This type of comments are not my style. I will always refer myself to the practical or not of the tech. Never would use defamatory or insulting approach in any comment. More. Whoever used my logo or/and id is disrespectful.
@ArmchairDivaAnnie
7 жыл бұрын
Carlos Arditti thank you for clearing that up. If you got hacked, notify KZread. :)
not a smart set up. Anyone can just unplug the unit the way you have it connected. No good.