This is kind of a sarcastic post, but I have a newer google nest video doorbell and I swear, every time someone is at the door, it would take like a full minute to load the live feed. Like, what’s even the point by then?!
Does yours pull up faster? Do I have a dud?
this is why i stay away from anything that requires cloud to work.
my amcrest ad410 is all local so it loads pretty fast. works great with Home Assistant hub as seen here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leGsc11h5aw
Yes. Google nest and it pops right up on my Google home device. It will also pop up on my Alexa like 40 second later lol
The nest is slow on some days and fast on others. Several times having deliveries that need to be signed for and can’t get the driver before he’s walking to his truck
My nest will give me the notification quickly but it takes forever to load the video. Doesn’t matter if I’m on cellular or wifi. Video just loads slow.
What do you have now? I’m guessing it’s cloud based and I won’t be at all surprised by your issue. Need a local solution.
I use Eufy and it’s pretty quick.
I just ask them to go away and come back in 5 minutes.
UniFi doorbell is basically instant. Stored locally, but you need hardware.
It definitely took a while for them to work out the kinks. The problems with the app were pretty terrible for a while.
No.
I have Nest Doorbell (or whatever it’s called now).
I also have 500meg fibre broadband. The Hello is 2 meters from the broadband router.
It always alerts me AFTER someone has arrived / pressed the doorbell. By the time I open the app and view the video it’s 30 seconds to 60 seconds after they have pressed the doorbell. By then they have typically left.
this my issue with it too.
I can walk outside to take the trash out, come back in and sit down, and then i get the alert showing i was at the front door
My Nest pulls up in about 2 seconds.
I have a ring doorbell and it works great.
Mine too. I particular love having Alexa answer the door instead of me, though, if I am not available to respond. Person detection could do with some work, though. I’ve had everything from raccoons to black bears get detected as people. Package detection is great when that works too.
Oh, I’ve had branches that apparently look just like people. I know exactly what you mean.
Lol, kinda funny, I have a huge rhododendron bush that was constantly picking up a vague face pattern too. I eventually got so fed up with it after 2 months of constant person detected notifications that I went outside and pruned that piece of bush a tiny bit and it stopped seeing a person there. That was a year ago. That 1 minute pruning did the trick!
Yeah, that’s what we need to do. But it’s literally a stick. Just a dead stick of a branch. Not even remotely human like. So odd. I think the thing just doesn’t like motion at all, and frankly, I’d rather it was more sensitive than less sooooo… am I really complaining?
Yeah, I’m going to bet you know by now Lorraine which stick / leaf is confusing it. 10/10,strongly recommend.
Vivint sucks, don’t go with them whatever you decide. Their alarm system is fine but the doorbell is shite.
We have had Ring and Nest. Nest hands down works immediately. Love that it records 24/7.
I use Vivint and it loads within 5 seconds or so. Didn’t realize this was such a big issue for other manufacturers
Using Ring2, works flawlessly.
my lorex takes a while to load if i use the lorex app, so i just open blue iris, which is near instant. i also display the live feed on my tablets which are wall moumted in my house, i use this more than i’d have ever thought
Unifi is nearly instant. Notifications are nearly instant. If you don’t want the Unifi app, which isn’t bad, then Home Assistant has integration that lets you get all the features you would typically need.