DoorBell camera usage

How many times a month do you answer a door bell ring from your cell phone and talk to the person

  • 0

    Votes: 6 40.0%
  • 1

    Votes: 2 13.3%
  • 2

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • 3

    Votes: 1 6.7%
  • 4

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • 5

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • More than 5 less than 20

    Votes: 1 6.7%
  • More than 20

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Do not own a door bell camera

    Votes: 5 33.3%

  • Total voters
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SouthernYankee

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I am interested in how many people actual use the cell phone to talk to people at their front door. If you own a door bell camera and never use your phone to talk to people why have the door bell camera.
 

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I am retired, have a front court yard With a gate and a beware of dog sign. No need for a door bell.
 

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I am looking at doorbell cameras now and considering setting up a cheap tablet dedicated to the respective app to act as a dedicated door monitor. I don't think I would use my phone much and my wife is afraid of apps (don't ask).

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Rebelx

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I would use almost 10 per month but most couriers just ring bell and dash out before I can even receive the ring. My doorbell was installed professionally and it is not positioned well. If someone crouches to put a parcel down, I can't even see that. I need to move it but worried about warranty and what not.

I also record my doorbell camera image (1mpx) continuously through my NVR.

For haloween I used the doorbell 30 times that night. :) When I ran out of sweets I didn't answer the bell and it rang another 21 times. Kids are going hungry! Hope they didn't die of starvation but my doorbell should not be blamed.
 

iseeker

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I only need to speak to people at the door when it is someone I know and I am not home. If someone rings that I don't want to speak with in person and I'm home, then I still don't want to talk with them on the phone...though I'll usually check the phone whenever the doorbell is rung (if I don't want to get up).
 

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I have 2 Nest Hello's that I use with BI and I don't have many people that ring my doorbell that I need to speak to, but it does happen occasionally. It is nice to look to see who is at the door or if a package has been dropped off though. Plus it gives a really good facial ID since it is at face level in addition to my cams that I have covering my front and back porches.
 

freddyq

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I have 2 Nest Hello's that I use with BI and I don't have many people that ring my doorbell that I need to speak to, but it does happen occasionally. It is nice to look to see who is at the door or if a package has been dropped off though. Plus it gives a really good facial ID since it is at face level in addition to my cams that I have covering my front and back porches.
I was going to ask the question in a new thread until I saw your message. So I'm guessing it is possible to setup the Nest Hello doorbell footage to be recorded to a BlueIris PC? I plan on getting a Nest Hello doorbell but I don't want to pay the subscription service for video footage recording..
 

freddyq

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Interesting - didn't realise it used so much bandwidth!
 

pmcross

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I was going to ask the question in a new thread until I saw your message. So I'm guessing it is possible to setup the Nest Hello doorbell footage to be recorded to a BlueIris PC? I plan on getting a Nest Hello doorbell but I don't want to pay the subscription service for video footage recording..
Sure thing, here is a thread that goes over how to set it up:
Recording Nest cameras with Blue Iris


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