Amcrest 1080P Video Doorbell Camera Pro, Outdoor Smart Home 2.4GHz WiFi Doorbell Camera (Wired Power), MicroSD Card, PIR Motion Detect, RTSP, IP55 Weatherproof, 2-Way Audio, 140º Wide-Angle AD110

I was looking for a video doorbell that was not created by the Big ones. I found this great doorbell and the quality is really good for the money. I used it to connect to a Home Assistant instance and play a customised chime over my indoor speakers as I didn't have a old chime to retrofit with.Motion detection is good, you only need to customise the detection area to make sure there are no false positives.Night vision is really good and you can clearly see picture details.The quality of the picture is good enough for a video doorbell. You can see people faces even when the camera is directly against sun light.I updated the firmware and it stopped working, I checked and there is a big community in their forum, but after contacting support they solved my issue even giving me API specs and the old firmware in less than 24 hours during Xmas period. Impressive support team, only for that I think it is worth the money.

Pros-Good build quality-Outstanding dynamic range-High and low quality rtsp feeds (should be viewable on most things)Cons-Doesn't work well with new doorbell parts (most are 8V and/or tansformers aren't powerfull enough)-Onboard motion detection misses a lot of things (with sensitivity on max)-Most of the app doesn't work consistently with Android 11 and pressured 12 as well (known issue bein worked on but without an estimated date yet).-No response from the conventional support request. (But I did get a prompt response from the escalation email address).The hardware's very good for a 1080p camera and I'm happy with the results now it's working, but I probably wouldn't recommend it to someone who doesn't know what there doing.In order to get it to work I ended up using a toroidal transformer (2x9V 30VA wired for 18V 15VA) with a relay to activate my mechanical chime (relay coil in place of the chime).On top of this if you also want reliable motion detection I had to setup a free program called motion on a raspberry pi to do the motion detection and recording using the rtsp feeds (although any NVR should be able to do the same).The rtsp feeds and fact it can be wired into a relay give you a lot of control to do pretty much anything with it, but in reality this is redoing things that should work out of the box.

Okay the first year or so, but no longer records to SD card, coincided with a firmware update.I have formatted it, tried different cards, and after customer support couldn't solve it, the told me to return it. Started that process to be told they won't replace it.