AOSU Doorbell Camera Wireless, 5MP Ultra HD, No Monthly Fee, 2.4/5 GHz WiFi Video Doorbell with Homebase, Battery/Wired Powered, Work with Alexa & Google Assistant

Update:We've upgraded our rating to 5 stars and bought a second doorbell of this model for our other door. We like this doorbell that much. We've also added Aosu 4 solar security cameras with the separate (not attached to the camera) solar panels, so we're now all in with Aosu. Thank you Amazon for all of the Aosu deals. We saved a bundle.Why the upgraded rating for the doorbell? After fumbling around, we found all of the features in the app that we need to monitor the doors to our house. Video playback is still herky jerky, but we'll live with this trade-off for exceptionally crystal clear video. This doorbell model works very well.We're staying with the wireless option because our 'vintage' house requires more wiring than we care to invest in doorbells. The wireless works well with our mesh router and signal extenders with zero dropouts.We solved the battery drain in several ways. Turn off the blue doorbell light, it sucks power. Don't monitor the area 24/7, that sucks power, too. Doing these two things keeps the doorbells charged to 90-100% for months.HOWEVER, many thanks to Aosu for not hiding the doorbell USB port inside the mounting plates. Access to the USB port when the doorbell is locked in place allows for continuous charging with solar panels and solves the entire battery drain problem permanently.We attached 5W solar panels (available on Amazon) to the doorbells and added long USB male to female cables (also Amazon) to snake around the door frames and up to the solar panels on the roof. The solar panels now keep our doorbells fully charged. This option is something that Aosu could offer for anyone opting for the wireless doorbell version.It means that we can turn back on the doorbell's blue light and monitor 24/7 if we want. But we're already 'trained' in the above ways to conserve the battery, so not going OCD here...lol.We're not fans of the Ring community sharing (private people) and are glad not to be on that particular 'social media'. We're also not cloud fans (hello Crowd Strike?) and totally appreciate local storage, which we manage daily by deleting all videos. Seriously, we don't need to save videos of the mail carrier or package deliveries and clog up the doorbell's storage... :-).Initial Review:First off, thank you to all the reviewers. After futzing around for a year trying to figure out which video doorbell to buy, you guys helped with this decision.No regrets here. Wireless installation was a breeze and works well with our Samsung tablets. The images are crystal clear. We'll most likely hardwire for full-time observation because doing so drains the battery too quickly. Another possibility is a USB solar panel connected to the bottom USB charging port to keep the doorbell fully charged once we figure out the correct solar panel wattage.With the porch light turned on, we turned off the infrared for full color night vision and it's amazing even with our low wattage LED porch light. No porch light? Then you'll need to enable infrared, which also works as it should.Suggested Improvements: The Aosu app interface is kludgy and could be improved. An interface with a drop down set of menus, think any Microsoft Office application, would go a long way to making these products more consumer friendly along with easier to configure and maintain the cameras or some pop-up words to tell the user what an icon does. Because we just ordered the Aosu 4 cam solar security camera set on deal from Amazon, we're kind of dreading its maintenance with the current app interface.We're maintenance minded and like to be able to do things like check the battery life (not on the home card as specified in settings), delete old files (not able to do this with the incorrect directions in the online manual, but finally figured it out with an 'Activities' icon), check the WiFi signal strength easily (have to futz around in settings to find it and its buried in 'About Device') and delete notifications/messages (we don't need to see forever worth of messages and prefer to keep this list shorter or empty on a daily basis).We have a call into customer support because we'd like to be able to define where the Aosu app stores event files. We don't need to fill up our internal tablet storage when we have gigantic SD cards in our tablets just for storing data.Wish list? An app for our desktops - Linux and Windows. Given that the doorbell's hub is already on our network, then a desktop app would be an unbelievable bonus putting Aosu way ahead of everyone else. Because this isn't an NVR, Blue Iris doesn't support these cameras...yet...but we're trying.By tapping our Samsung tablets to the side of our 55" Samsung TV monitors we have the tablet's interface on the big screen. The problem is that it's not a KVM switch, which puts us back to the desktop app wish. Yah, we know, there are Android emulators for the desktops, but they're still not 'there'.All in all, as noted above, we like this doorbell so much that we'll be all in with Aosu security once our security cameras arrive. The single star ding is for the above suggestions for the consumer's experience and not for the hardware which works well.

This doorbell cam works great. I won't reiterate what others have said but, the battery charging issue was a deal for me which I had to address. I No Way want to be annoyed every couple of months with recharging the battery so I decided to use the 24VAC power of my existing doorbell - or so I thought. My old doorbell switch is on the opposite side (right side of door) of where I wanted to install the new AOSU doorbell (of course). I spent a couple hrs trying to figure out how to run wires from the existing ringer over to the new AOSU ringer. Finally, I gave up on that - didn't like the visible wiring I would have use to make this happen. I looked down to the left and AHA! What did I see? A power outlet! So I got the ingenious idea to install a 24AC transformer there and run the wires a short distance to the new AOSU doorbell. I looked at simple transformers (hardwire type), but then found a small plug-in adapter unit (24VAC, 500ma) that I thought would fit in the outlet box and not block the other outlet (which we occassionally use). Wrong. It was just big enough that it blocked the other (top) outlet - not acceptable! So, I hardwired the 120VAC terminals of the plug-in transformer to the back of the power outlet and just laid the plug-in unit in the bottom of the outlet box. Not exactly what I wanted, but it works. The main reason I went with the plug-in adapter is that it has circuit overload protection which a simple transformer does not.Here's the 24AC adapter I used ($10): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CXP9ZDRQ?ref_=ppx_hzod_title_dt_b_fed_asin_title_0_024 Volt Transformer, C Wire Adapter, Competible with All Versions of Ring Doorbell and Thermostat for Ecobee,Sensi and Honeywell (with 196in Cable)Delay problems? I had a small amount of delay initially, mostly with the audio. Moved the base unit closer to my Wifi router (app showed 60% wifi signal) and a more direct line of sight to the doorbell, now showing full signal strength in the app. Almost no delay now in video or audio.

I have been utilizing my video door cam for a few years now and it has become time for me to acquire a new one as I wish to upgrade. I would also like to mention that due to the charging not lasting as long as it did previously, I was provided a discount on the purchase of another. Their customer service is exceptional and not solely because they have discounted me items. It is because their customer service is very engaging and does not prolong for extended periods before resolution is achieved. Their customer service is the best out of many different customer service exchanges that I’ve had in quite some time.I would also like to add that I have utilized ring cameras that require monitoring to achieve the level of quality that I have experienced on this non-monitoring system, and their cloud recording is reasonably priced for the year, or alternatively, you may use a memory card that can be restarted by wiping previous recordings once saved on another device.Camera quality is very clear and detailed. The app is also without issue.

Update: they are sending the updated version of this doorbell. Will update again after testing the new one out. I do have the indoor cameras, and those work hreatIve had this for a while now. It worked great but now when someone rings the doorbell it doesn't make a sound. I've changed all the sound settings but it seems to be a hit or miss if the doorbell wants to make a sound. Also, my phone doesn't notify me anymore if someone pushed the call button. I think it's more of a software issue- I've updated everything on my side. Otherwise it does what supposed.