Caporegime
I have a eufy homebase 2 a battery door bell and 2 2proC ? cameras...
I recently bought a Google nest battery camera to try as i was pretty unhappy with the delay of the eufy doorbell to capture movement, often outright missing a delivery.
I used it for 3 days and decided to take it back for refund..
Reasons why....
Subscription fee, only 50 quid a year but without that you have only 3h playback and zero advanced features....
The integration with all the google kit i have at home was utterly disappointing. Same as Eufy, the integration is honestly slow and awful. Not what i was expecting. It rang every single one of my speakers in every room, utterly ridiculous, no way to fix that. It worked well with smart screens, the only good thing.
Google doorbell had terrible light balance the picture was very dark... totally lost detail. This in turn totally ruined the AI face detection. All faces i registered it identified as me, regardless...
That was the final straw. You pay for that feature, read about the issue and it seems to be a common failure, utterly useless.
One good thing It is faster at picking up people on my driveway, but the picture quality was so low detail.. disappointing.
Out of those 2 systems i really recommend neither.... Eufy is "free storage" but the latest 3rd generation is bloody expensive... Id love to test the homebase 3 it but the price... jeez.
I might buy one to "try" then return it after testing or keep it if it actually has working AI detection....
If you have smart home hubs and invested in google and dont care about advanced features, just want a doorbell with 2 way chat and picture. Id say the google nest battery is "good" but try and get more from it, started uncovering annoyances and non working features that i just wasn't prepared to pay for.
I recently bought a Google nest battery camera to try as i was pretty unhappy with the delay of the eufy doorbell to capture movement, often outright missing a delivery.
I used it for 3 days and decided to take it back for refund..
Reasons why....
Subscription fee, only 50 quid a year but without that you have only 3h playback and zero advanced features....
The integration with all the google kit i have at home was utterly disappointing. Same as Eufy, the integration is honestly slow and awful. Not what i was expecting. It rang every single one of my speakers in every room, utterly ridiculous, no way to fix that. It worked well with smart screens, the only good thing.
Google doorbell had terrible light balance the picture was very dark... totally lost detail. This in turn totally ruined the AI face detection. All faces i registered it identified as me, regardless...
That was the final straw. You pay for that feature, read about the issue and it seems to be a common failure, utterly useless.
One good thing It is faster at picking up people on my driveway, but the picture quality was so low detail.. disappointing.
Out of those 2 systems i really recommend neither.... Eufy is "free storage" but the latest 3rd generation is bloody expensive... Id love to test the homebase 3 it but the price... jeez.
I might buy one to "try" then return it after testing or keep it if it actually has working AI detection....
If you have smart home hubs and invested in google and dont care about advanced features, just want a doorbell with 2 way chat and picture. Id say the google nest battery is "good" but try and get more from it, started uncovering annoyances and non working features that i just wasn't prepared to pay for.
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That’s mostly down to the batteries though.
