eufy Security Video Doorbell (Wired) S330 with Chime, Dual Cam, Delivery Guard, Security Camera, 2K with HDR, No Monthly Fee, 16-24V, 30VA, homebase NOT Supported, Motion Only Alert

I love this doorbell!
This thing is awesome. This is going to be long. Our old doorbell was a SkyBell slimline 2 which they so nicely decided out of nowhere they would discontinue the old app on June 30th and not bring that model to their new app after saying all their devices would move to the new app. It’s fine, I was fed up with it anyway. Grainy picture, never dang connecting when you try, always telling you to try again later, always saying it wasn’t connected to the internet, not picking up on motion even when someone rang the doorbell, missing video that should have been recorded but never was🙄 do NOT recommend that crap. So it led me to research what other kind of video doorbells were out there. I like ring and it’s quality but I don’t like that I would have to purchase a plan to access the doorbell and videos and that after a year or two it would cost more than the doorbell did! I don’t need yet another subscription service so I focused on video doorbells that didn’t force you into subscriptions. This was surprisingly not the highest on the lists I found, you can do your own research and see where it falls, you don’t have to take my word for it, but I liked the features it offered including ai learning faces. It seemed easy enough to install and the app even walks you through it. It comes with a wedge and a flat backplate in case you need to angle it away from anything. We had a minor wrinkle when the app said our existing transformer was capable and then crapped out a few hours later and it took a minute to figure out why the doorbell wasn’t working. I had a suspicion it would considering it was buzzing before this. NONSTOP. Since replacing the transformer with a more powerful one, haven’t had a single problem, or any buzzing 😁 There is no battery to take out and charge, this hardwired directly into our existing power from the SkyBell. It does not work with the large chime on the wall like SkyBell did, but it comes with a jumper so bypass it, the little chime this bundle came with is fairly loud, plus it dings your phone if you have that notification set up and it rings outside through the doorbell so the person knows it worked when they pushed the button and they don’t smash it to pieces. If you didn’t buy the chime with the doorbell, you will need to buy one if you want it to chime in your house. It’s a nicer chime, it’s one of those song ones not just a ding dong. It says you can connect with echo dots to play the chime other places in your house but I don’t feel that’s necessary for us. It’s a nice feature, just one I don’t use. You do have to plug the wall part into the chime box, it’s probably just so it can be put in a smaller package. In the app you can turn on a preprogram auto responses option for when the doorbell is pushed. You can set any time when it does it like if you’re at work, you can set it to anyone ringing it. It comes with three but you can change them. The picture quality is excellent and the motion detection is amazing. I think maybe a little too great. My plants out front keep setting it off every time there is a light breeze which is great it clearly works but getting 100 notifications in 5 minutes is a bit excessive. It’s a learning curve, I have been playing around with the sensitivity to see what works best and it’s on the highest when it sends so many notifications about every little leaf that moves. You can set it to pick up any motion or just humans, I have it set to both which again, is why I get so many notifications but I’m learning where I like it to be set at. It also has a customizable zone in the app you can tell it to ignore a certain part and have a pick up path where it will only focus on motion in that area. You can even snooze notifications motion or chime and you can pick a snooze time of 30 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours, 6 hours or 12 hours. That’s pretty neat too. I absolutely love the dual cameras. I thought it would bother me having a black line across my screen or seeing double but it really doesn’t. I love that I can see the actual front porch where packages are left now where as before I could only see them if they were put far enough away from the front door or if they were a very large size. You can also change how the camera looks to you if you don’t like seeing the split screen, there is a Picture in Picture option. A very minor downside is that there is a more narrow field of vision than with SkyBell. I don’t know the degrees but I know looking out at SkyBell which neighbors house I could see down to, and with the eufy it stops short by a house or two. Do I really need to see that far though? I don’t know, maybe. Right now it seems like a very minor con compared to the many many pros of this doorbell. If anything, there are additional cameras that eufy offers that all connect to one app and hub and would increase the field of vision so it’s not all on just one camera to pick up everything. We didn’t need a camera on that side before but based on their doorbell it would be an upgrade to get more of their security system. Second minor con is the app is basically full of ads to get you to buy more. They offer security monitoring, more bases, cameras, sensors etc. They are not pop up ads so they get points for that, it’s tabs to navigate to for more information. A little annoying but a minor inconvenience. Package detection is interesting it definitely identifies packages but it also identifies my bag of garden soil as a package so I moved it. I’m not sure how it does with package theft but I had a package on the porch, it detected it and then it didn’t do anything when I brought the package inside. I even came around front so it picked me up picking the package up and it just told me human alert. That may have been the ai and it already learned I live here or I’m a familiar face so there’s no reason to think I stole the package but if it was supposed to notify me that package was picked up or gone, it did not. The ai familiar faces thing is part of the app. You can add tags to people that show up frequently and nicknames so it “learns” who lives there or who is a frequent visitor. Night vision is more impressive than I thought it would be. I watched many videos and read many reviews complaining this camera is black at night, it’s useless unless you’re right up on it and I don’t know what those circumstances were but I live in a neighborhood with street lights so it’s not very dark to begin with and this has no problem picking up anything at night. I do get less notifications about plants moving but the notifications I do get are cars driving by, stray animals walking in front and once what I think was a bug. So it’s working and picking up more than SkyBell did. The only dark park is right up front by the front door where it’s harder to see but not impossible. I think SkyBell had worse night vision than this one. SkyBell was grey scale at night, this one is color. I saw lights on the bottom camera when I flipped it over before installing, it was plugged in on the counter, but I don’t think it’s dark enough outside for the lights to turn on. I’m also not having the latency issues that seemed to be one of the other big downsides to this doorbell. One of the default settings is send you a notification and take you to the recording instead of the live view, you can change that to go to live view when you tap the notification. I find that it’s pretty instant connecting to the live from tapping the notification. Sometimes I miss the initial movement that triggered the notification if it’s something like a car driving by but if it’s a person it depends on if they’re sticking around or pressed the bell and left like a delivery driver, I usually catch the driver as they’re walking away. The doorbell did record whatever happened though and if you don’t see anything in the live view you can go check your videos. That’s pretty standard though for a video doorbell and it is faster than SkyBell which would take 15 tries or more sometimes to get the live view to load. Maybe there are faster ones out there, I don’t know. I didn’t come across one in any of my research. I had one issue where the app said it couldn’t connect to the live feed and I’m pretty sure that was an internet problem because nothing would load on my phone, I had to turn everything off and back on and it hasn’t happened since. I will edit this to add some photos of the camera in use. So far I am loving this video doorbell, the app and am looking into buying more things from eufy if they’re all this quality and easy to use. It was a fantastic purchase. I’m still learning how to use some features so I’ll update if anything changes.

I recently purchased this doorbell camera and I couldn’t be happier with the outcome. It’s incredibly easy to see what’s happening at my front door at any moment, thanks to its clear video feed. Connecting to my phone, even when I’m not at home, is a breeze. The price point was perfect, and the installation was straightforward with my existing wired doorbell. I simply removed the old doorbell, did some reconfiguration based on a helpful video I watched, and everything has been working perfectly since then.This top-notch product gives me a great sense of security, and the best part is that there’s no monthly subscription fee. I highly recommend this beautiful doorbell camera to anyone looking for an affordable and reliable security solution.

Picture qualities is good. I haven’t had a chance to test the sound. It’s only been three days. Not a lot of false alerts but a few. Easy to install, but I have to change the Wi-Fi password a few days in and that could’ve gone a little smoother if you could do it from the app which you cannot, you have to go through all of the steps and when I plugged it back in with the supplied cord, the green light did not come on, so I just decided to follow the subsequent steps and the camera worked. I reinstalled it turned the power back on and it’s working great mind you I’ve only had it for a few days. This is my second purchase from Eufy. I’ve had my first wired security camera for years and have no problems with it.

5 Stars for Eufy, I bought 2 months a go eufy wireless door locks and loved the retrofit installation. Its so easy to install and the only thing you need is to remove door lock from inside. So i am not worried about -40 temperature now coz indoor locks temp will remain constant, the weatherproof wireless keypad makes the door lock system complete. Best part i can manage the entry, access remotely, generate user PIN’s, grants temporary and time based. Later i bought eufy wired door bell, which is another great product. The new door bell has dual camera one for front view and one for package view which shows foot steps of the door. like regular CCTV camera i can create activity zones in door bell also. It has pre recorded 3 voice announcements which can be setup to trigger if someone approaches the door or try to steal your package. Since that was not enough and then i bought eufy outdoor wired cameras. I am amazed with the camera quality. The cameras was reasonably priced if i compare it with the product quality. The wired S200 series camera comes with a magnetic base and a memory card slot, one can use upto 128GB micro SD card. I bought wired camera because i needed 24/7 continuous recording, I bought 2 wired cameras one with 1080p resolution and other 2K resolution, and both are amazing in terms of video quality and online live streaming. I cant even find a difference in 1080p and 2K video on cell phone. The 2K camera comes with 32gb Micro SD card and can store up to 72 hours of Continuous video/audio/motion detection/events etc.Pros:-1) easy to setup with eufy ioS/android app2) Amazing smartphone app with attractive features.3) door bell notifications are instant with thumbnails and text alerts4) AI face recognition feature is amazing and it stores the visitor name for future notification5) Totally secure, i find privacy much better then other product in market. Your data is safe in local storage if your using devices internal memory. No data stored over the cloud unless you subscribe for it.6) night vision is perfect, including spot lights in camera which triggers automatically once someone enters into activity zones.7) there are so many state of the art features in eufy products which i am still not familiar or couldnt find enough time to explore the.8) and the most best part all of the devices are seamlessly connect with voice assistant (alexa, google home). I find it much better with alexa, amazon fire tv, and alexa touch screen frame. just say alexa show me door bell. it right away pops up the camera, or lock unlock the door.9) built-in memory products are amazing, i am not worried about my privacy and data anymore.10) there are a lot more pros of the devices and not on top of my head right now.11) Yes, the customer services is superb, response spontaneously and keeps you in loop if yo arises any concern.Cons:-1) A little bit more work required on Alexa and google integration. it could be voice assistance side which sometimes takes longer then usual to pop up camera or take longer if you instruct alexa to lock the door. I wouldnt blame eufy. i know they will work with third party and update it.2) The built in memory of cameras could have been increased from 128Gb, in my case its not an issue.3) Sometimes the camera notifications delay. I guess cameras are not good idea to use as door bell, since door bell response is spontaneous and im loving it.4) Door bell heats up pretty quick, i dont know its the factory default. In winter its a plus point to keep door bell warm so it dosent loses connection. but in hot summer days it could be an issue. But i havent faced any significant issue so far. yes if one person is streaming the live video on door bell then other user streaming device can hear audio from door bell. I figured out coz my alexa was automatically showing door bell once someone press the door bell and it pops it up on alexa screen. and at the same time i opened the door bell on my phone and couldnt hear the audio from the person at the door. Eventually i had to disable alexa auto showinf door bell video so i can anser the door bell from phone and speak with the person.5) The door lock battery drains really fast, one of my door lock battery lasts 2 months only, i am using now rechargeable batteriesAll above mentioned Cons does not mean the door bell is not functional. It is functional but i guess i used the devices beyond their limits or maybe something have never tested before by the manufacturer. i am sure they will come up with a solution in near future.Simple words, thanks eufy. i am loving your security products. I can proudly say my home is protected by Eufy.PS: this review is not paid or sponsored. Its my personal review which i reach to a conclusion after using eufy products for couple of months. I strongly recommend everyone, why to pay telco operators monthly fee, when you can get you own personalized, customized easy to install security system along with data privacy in reasonable price and best quality products