Wife just bought to me an early Christmas gift of a Ring2. After doing some research here and found out that it would not marry up to BI. So we are going to return it. Doing more research here I see that this VTO2111D-WP Will marry up to BI But I will need to figure out a way to make my old door bell still ring when the button on the unit is pressed. Will be back when I find out anything.
BTW Cameraman27 I would think you have had yours for a bit now. Any comments?
does the two way audio work via BI?You can make the Dahua VTO set off a normal doorbell chime but it invovles some hacking of the unit, I did this to mine but instead of a chime it sets off a zwave sensor.
I like my VTO unit very much and it's so much more versatile than the commercial off-the-shelf doorbells if you are willing to set it up and 'hack' it.
The ability for POE and BI compatibility really set it apart. I love mine.
does the two way audio work via BI?
Cameraman27 That support you are speaking of. Is that like for a year after you buy the full BI? If so, maybe I can ask them about support for the bi direction audio. I bought my full copy back about 3 or 4 months ago. BTW thanks for the feedback. Just waiting for B & H to tell me that they shipped. Supposed to be here Thursday. Something to play with, but first going to try to set up my VPN next weekend. Gone through 22 pages of the VPN for noobs and then some again. Head is swimming with info.
Cameraman 27, received my my video doorbell yesterday. Had a chance to look at it a bit today. It appears that the voltage across the actual button is 3.3 when not depressed and as one would expect, drops to zero when depressed. So, now to figure out a way to reverse the logic and at the same time isolate the door bell side of the circuit. With that low of voltage it is going to be real touchy to voltage bleeding into the circuit and I suspect going to be careful to not over draw current from the circuit.