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Local only doorbells (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by dbrand666@lemmy.world to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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To expand on a previous poster asking about local only devices in general...

Has anyone found a reliable local only doorbell? I've been meaning to replace my Ring doorbell ever since Amazon bought them. I finally bought a Reolink WiFi doorbell and it looks great and was really easy to set up without Internet or their app, BUT...

It doesn't work. Capture to FTP gives me nice clear images but the videos are corrupt, maybe truncated. I can't even open them with VLC.

I tried installing an SD card and then moving the SD card to my laptop. The videos on there play for a few seconds and then freeze.

Reolink support hasn't responded to any of my questions, which is another minus for them.

I did notice that the unit seems to run very hot. Did I just get a dud?

So are there any alternatives? Should I just try buying another of these? At least returns (Amazon, Walmart) are easy.

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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have the unifi protect stuff, I've been pretty happy, support has been okay at best. I host everything myself but I do think they use some of the info.... there TandC are pretty thick

[–] rs5th@lemmy.scottlabs.io 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used Unifi Video for a long time until they moved away from letting me run the NVR on my own VM/hardware in the Uniti Protect world.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I was real real pissed about that. I have hundreds of TB of storage but I can't use any of it because they limited it to their shitty NVR

[–] rs5th@lemmy.scottlabs.io 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When my current Unifi APs die, I'll probably look at moving to MikroTik for WiFi. I'm still salty about them not supporting anything but their appliance.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Definitely took on the walled garden approach, and I'm getting real annoyed at how many of those companies are creating

[–] dbrand666@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah. I'm trying to stick to open protocols.