4MP Video Doorbell Camera Pro, Outdoor Smart Home 2.4GHz and 5GHz Wireless WiFi, Micro SD Card, AI Human Detection, IP65 Weatherproof, 2-Way Audio, 164º Wide-Angle Wi-Fi AD410

Does everything as advertised well and comes with everything you need. I'm not sure how it would work in old homes, but my home is a little over a year old with all modern wiring with a simple mechanical chime. It was very easy to install. Just shut off the breaker, pulled old doorbell switch off, drilled 2 holes for the backing plate, connected the 2 wires, and was good to go. At first, I didn't install the chime kit and noticed my chime was acting sporadic. If you have a mechanical chime, you have to use the chime kit. Was really easy to pop the cover off and install it. Only gripe there was trying to find a place for the box to fit inside under the cover. My chime is very common and popular. Nothing special. They could have put a little more thought into the shape of it so it would fit easier without interfering with the chime. I got the cover to sit flush, but if you look real close, you can see where the chime kit box is pressing against it. Maybe there's a spot I missed that might have been better, but its whatever I guess. Another thing. Turn off DHCP in the settings and assign it a specific IP on your network. If it disconnects, which it will with power outages etc, you will have to go through and find its new IP and reconnect if you are using it with blue iris or a nvr. It worked well with my Amcrest NVR, but I recently outgrew the 8 camera limit on it and wanted something better so I now use it with Blue Iris on a old computer I have. Neither have had issues connecting to this, displaying live feed, recording, or 2 way talk. It is extremely sensitive to movement, but I live out in a pretty rural area so it doesn't bug me. I actually wish my other cameras were just as sensitive as this one. The picture quality is pretty good. It is nothing crazy, but it is more than enough to get the job done. I'm not one to hyper analyze the picture quality. The only thing I do wish is that the viewing angle was even wider than it already is. I know it would look like a fish bowl if it did, but I wouldn't mind being able to see more. The viewing angle is pretty wide and it does fish bowl a little, I just wish it was even more so lol. The Amcrest Smart home app is actually really nice. I use it for the doorbell specifically. I don't know why Amcrest can't just do away with their other app and just use it for all their cameras. I could never get the smart home app to work with the NVR or any of my wired IP cameras. I digress though... If you are looking for a solid and easy doorbell camera that doesn't have a subscription and that just works, get this. I have enjoyed all my amcrest products so far except the NVR. Blue Iris changed my life lol

I've been considering this doorbell for months to replace my peeling old Nest Hello, following good reviews, its ability to be integrated with Home Assistant and Blue Iris. As Amcrest drop the price on it every few months, I was in no rush and when then finally did I ordered it - worth noting I'm in the UK. About a week later it arrived and I've just spent the last 2 hours fitting and then removing the thing, so that I can return it. Once I'd installed it and finally removed the plastic covering the lens I noticed a crack right across it and the lame attempt at securing the doorbell from thieves can be easily defeated with the slightest bit of pressure... It's laughably useless. However, what really cemented that it was going back was the god awful Android app. It's a mess and thrown together. Really it needs completely rebuilding from the ground up. I'd list all of its failings here, but the email I sent with them all in to Amcrest was about 3 pages long. As a positive, the picture quality of the doorbell is great, shame that you'll have to constantly tell the app every time you open it to show you HD rather than some crappy SD quality. Yes, I could have messed about getting it working how I wanted in HA and Blue Iris, but that isn't going to gain me WAF - Amcrest's app needs to work out of the box and work well first and foremost, which is doesn't. First and last time I'll buy an Amcrest product. Looks like I'm stuck with Nest and paying for their cloud subscription for another year... Do yourself and family a favour and don't buy this crap. If you really must, set yourself an alert on Camelcamelcamel and save about $20 when they drop the price again in a month or so.

This is the third video doorbell I've installed. I started with Ring, switched to Nest, and now have gone with the AD410. Ring and Nest were pretty much equivalent, but I have Google hubs in my house, and Nest works better with those. Installation of all three doorbells was pretty easy. I will say the Amcrest had a simpler chime module than Nest. Nest required some re-routing of wires in the chime fixture, while Amcrest only attached alongside existing wires. However, the AD410 is better than either. At 4MP resolution the image is much clearer. On top of that, the colors and vibrancy is better. I attached two screen caps as examples, one from Nest and one from Amcrest. Both of these are zoom-ins to a tiny portion of the the full capture like you might do to see a license plate number to highlight the difference in image quality. The Nest image is unusable, but with the Amcrest you can clearly read the letters on the stop sign. The final big difference, and the reason I switched to the AD410, is I use Blue Iris camera software with other wired cameras in my house. I was able to figure out how to get a video feed from the Nest into Blue Iris, but it took a lot of finagling. It took a lot of research to figure this out as Google doesn't tell you how to do it. You have to grant API access to in your Google account, and this doesn't work with a GSuite GMail account like I have. However, I got it working with a secondary account. Unfortunately, once you get it working it is not great. There's a delay of something like 10-15 seconds on the feed (I guess since it goes to Google cloud before going to Blue Iris), which makes matching up video feeds from different cameras very annoying. Plus, the feed regularly cuts out (again, I assume something with Google cloud access availability). The AD410 worked just like a wired camera. Amcrest's site gives clear simple explanations of how to do it, and they worked the first time. There is no delay in the video feed at all. It is definitely a total win over the Nest or Ring cameras. My only complaint might be that the motion detection on the camera is VERY sensitive. This may be due to the better resolution. There is a slider in the app which lets you control the sensitivity, but even with it turned all the way down I get constant motion triggers on cars driving on a cross street that happens to be in the camera's view. Nest never triggered on this, probably because the street was an indistinct mush as you can see. I tried playing with the camera motion zones which reduced this, but I still get triggers for car headlights at night which light up outside the areas I had masked off. I will continue to fiddle with it. Fortunately, the camera does provide great "human" detection which is really all I need anyway.