Door Bell and baby monitor ! (again, I know)

[John V]

I see this subject come up ever so often but I feel like there isn't a good solution.

I have Blur Iris and currently 8 cams running. I have a cam at the front and back door which is great.

Although I have audio I have no way to speak to anyone and of course I'm looking to avoid paying for storage because I already have 40TB locally and LOVE my blue iris setup.

I've seen the updated youtube video where you can grab the video stream of the nest cam but I dont see audio being a option.


Maybe I just need to buy the nest doorbell and deal with the fact it won't work with blueiris...

But what about a baby monitor? I've tested the IPC-46 and it straight-up sucks

 

[danbutter]

This is looking to be a decent doorbell. I don't know much about the baby monitor, but you may find a thread in the dahua forum on one.
Review-Dahua DB-11 Video Door Bell

 

[John V]

I don’t know about that. Looks a long way away from being useable

 

[danbutter]

Well it isn't without its issues, but its issues are less than the others I've seen.

 

[John Waller]

Bump. I’m in the same boat. I’m thinking about using Amcrest ProHD POE indoor PTZ for my baby monitor - haven’t seen much feedback - haven’t dug through here much truthfully just really digging in. I run Dahua front of house with starvis sensors and Reolinks on the back - working my way around replacing as I go. Would love a good doorbell cam. Not sure on the baby monitor yet.

 

[xdq]

For a baby monitor I started with a Foscam C1 720p before changing to an Annke 1080p cube camera onto which I installed Hikvision firmware.

They both have two way audio but the Foscam is great as an ad-hoc a baby monitor when we're away from home. It's most useful when our son falls asleep in the car or needs to nap when we're visiting friends - It's USB powered so a battery pack can keep it running for hours and you can press a button on the back to switch the wifi to access point mode meaning you don't need to mess around adding it to someone's wifi.

When we're on holiday I hook it up to a 4g hotspot and it becomes accessible over further distances.