Spec my mother a doorbell

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Very simple, I hope: my mother needs a new doorbell as her current one is broken. But I don't know where to start. Her broken one is battery powered with a wired button and very old.

She has wifi and an iPad of recent vintage so a camera doorbell is possible, but she's 88 so that side of it has got to be very simple indeed, and function as a normal doorbell. The wifi router is at the other end of the house from the front door.

 

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I've done a little digging and a camera bell is probably not on as there would a cafe across the street in view.

 

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I would get a mains operated one installed if possible, as it saves faffing around with batteries.

Agreed, especially as her current one probably has failed from a leaking battery.

 

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Are you sure about this?

The problem is recording other people.

 

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Just to update the thread I purchased and fitted the Byron @radderfire suggested, it's survived initial testing, and she's very happy. Naturally it took forever to arrive over Christmas.

She decided she didn't want a video doorbell: it was too much of a faff for her.

 

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With a video doorbell in the time she had found her iPad, logged in, and used the app she could have walked to the door herself.