Onvif Compatible Doorbell Cam

It's embarrassing that you are using lies to try and discredit me here. August? You can't even get that right.

Helpful answer? Hahaha, you've been called out for peddling your rubbish and over-priced product on here. I'm not being an "asshole" as you put it. I'm trying to stop others being ripped off buying this crap - that is helping OP.

Go read the reviews I posted links to and sort out the customer service for your product, you have unhappy customers already before name-calling people.
 
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You seem to know about all there is about IP doorbells, so maybe you can actually offer something constructive to this conversation. Do you maybe have a product you can suggest which does what the OP asked? Anything constructive at all to provide?
I doubt it, so I'll direct the remainder of my responses to the OP:

sealfab said:
Here is what Im looking for

  • ONVIF compatible
  • Cost under 1000 usd
  • Not made by some trendy startup company that may or may not exist next year
  • POE
  • Does not rely on cloud services to function


Not required but would be nice is SIP two way audio
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  • Doorbird is ONVIF compatible. You can connect directly to it and view the live stream in blueiris - the reddit link I pasted earlier includes instructions
  • Costis $349 as we have discussed already
  • Trendy startup: I don't know. I don't know how long the company has been around or what else they produce, if anything. The earliest mention I see for this product is prerelease announcements from march of last year.
  • POE 802.11af Type A compatible (uses the same 4 data wires used by 10/100 ethernet)
  • Doesn't require cloud but I read in another review that they have plans to offer cloud recording for those who want it
  • Two-way SIP supported
  • Important Note: Apparently it can be difficult to install if you aren't comfortable installing things that require drilling or wiring. If this is the case, you should probably consider something a little simpler.
  • Additional important note: You should know that this product is not the perfect solution to all of your woes. It won't whiten your teeth, put your kids to bed, or solve world hunger. Its just a camera for your door.

Competing products mentioned in the reviews provided by our helpful contributor to this thread include:
Ring - about half the price at $200. Also smaller and easier to install. Battery operated. Requires $30 annual cloud subscription, doesn't support POE, doesn't support ONVIF, wifi only
SkyBell - same price as Ring. No recording or motion capture, no POE or ONVIF
August - also $200. Wifi only, no ethernet or POE. Cloud based. No ONVIF
DoorBot - defunct product

If anyone has anything helpful to offer, I'm all ears since I'm in the market for the same thing as the OP and would love to find something less than $350, but it looks like most of the competing systems are marketed towards plug-and-play users who aren't interested in compatibility with an existing home automation infrastructure.

Any further negative commentary from the peanut gallery will be ignored.
 
I've provided something constructive. Doorbird get's terrible reviews. I don't know an amazing amount about IP doorbells but I know that this is not a good product no matter how much you promote it.

Stop promoting your own product and highlighting only negatives of other brands! Either that or stop recommending a product you've never used. The Dahua is better and is in the Q3 catalog so I'm sure it'll be out soon. Better to wait for that and I'm sure most here would agree. OP has already waited 6 months after-all.

"Apparently it can be difficult to install if you aren't comfortable installing things that require drilling or wiring. If this is the case, you should probably consider something a little simpler." Don't belittle the users who bought your product and provided an honest review. This wasn't their only issue.

Anyways, the thread was over 6 months old. OP also hasn't been online since Feb. You know this cos you checked, but still shilled your product claiming to help OP.
 
Sorry guys, did a quick search through for forums and found 3 hits for doorbird ... please don't immediately write me off as a spammer, i came through looking to see if anyone had any luck adding a doorbird to a Hikvision NVR (i've got a 7616). Anyway - as per the reviews above, i don't understand how they could possibly be that hard to install if you are taking the poe route, it comes with an rj45 dongle, you plug you network cable into it, plug the other end into the back of the doorbird and its done. After a minute or so you get a voice prompt 'device successfully connected to the internet' (unless your lan is setup mongo). Hit up the app store (our experience was iOS) download the doorbird app, the login / password is given to you in text and QR code to scan into the app.

Game over. Remote devices - iOS / driod / html5 (lan only apparently) can view the live feed at any time ... i just want to plug that live feed into my NVR, i think depending on how long the wireless doorbells themselves are away I may need to buy a ringer in the meantime so that if we are out of earshot of our phones / ipads we wont miss it. Otherwise next weekend im going to have a go at connecting it to my garage roller door, so i can get deliveries dropped in there if needed when im at work.

This isn't a sell as clearly you have your own firm opinions, i grabbed the D101S, stainless front, shipped from Germany to Sydney in less than a week.
 
I also have been researching this for the past few months and have come to same conclusion that korin did in that doorbird is really the only option at the moment.

As del boy has said, although doorbird meets most of the OP's requirements it's overpriced, bulky, and more complicated than I'm personally looking for: I just want to install something I can hook up to blue iris and power via the existing doorbell wiring
 
JY07 said:
I also have been researching this for the past few months and have come to same conclusion that korin did in that doorbird is really the only option at the moment.

As del boy has said, although doorbird meets most of the OP's requirements it's overpriced, bulky, and more complicated than I'm personally looking for: I just want to install something I can hook up to blue iris and power via the existing doorbell wiring
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I'm trying to get hold of the Dahua solution to see if that's any good. Generally Dahua and ONVIF is great. I'll test if it also works with Hikvision NVR but I'm not at the Blue Iris stage of knowledge yet.
 
Came here from searching around...

Similar requirements:

  • onvif compatible / RTSP
  • sip capability (voip calling)
  • poe
  • no cloud service / recurring fees
  • 1MP+ / 720p+ video resolution
  • IR lighting would be nice
  • something that can handle my winter (-20C/-4F)

While DoorBird sounds promising, it seems quite expensive to 'experiment' with.

I found two potential products, but no active retailers (save B2B-type sellers)...


Unfortunately, I can't find any good information about them, but they seem to be sub-$200, which is more attractive...

Has no one else tinkered with these sort of things? :)
 
oldskool75 said:
Came here from searching around...

Similar requirements:

  • onvif compatible / RTSP
  • sip capability (voip calling)
  • poe
  • no cloud service / recurring fees
  • 1MP+ / 720p+ video resolution
  • IR lighting would be nice
  • something that can handle my winter (-20C/-4F)

While DoorBird sounds promising, it seems quite expensive to 'experiment' with.

I found two potential products, but no active retailers (save B2B-type sellers)...


Unfortunately, I can't find any good information about them, but they seem to be sub-$200, which is more attractive...

Has no one else tinkered with these sort of things? :)
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Once you get into sip capability the price goes way up as far as I know there is the mobotix door station but it does not have onvif and I dont think it has an RTSP stream you can access. Than there is the axis http://www.axis.com/us/en/products/axis-a8004-ve
 
I am also interested in a wifi video doorbell that does Onvif or better yet talks Hivision protocol as I run their NVR.
 
Anyone look at the covert, pinhole type IP cams by Hikvision or Dahua to serve this role of doorbell type cam?
 
people want VoIP so they can talk to someone at the door, the latency involved with embedding audio into the video makes it obvious your not home when using a phone.
 
FrankOceanXray said:
Anyone look at the covert, pinhole type IP cams by Hikvision or Dahua to serve this role of doorbell type cam?
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I've considered stuffing one of those inside a Doorbell Fon intercom (has a place for a camera, but was designed for a tiny crappy analog cam).
 
Also interested.

Noticed the Dahua one is $ 120 on eBay
Does advertise "home NVR" support, but not sure if it uses ONVIF or something proprietary.
 
Del Boy said:
I'm getting my hands on a Dahua one soon.
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You got it or not? or is soon?...:)

Was looking at Ring , but looking at Dahua also.
Does Dahua do everything what Ring does? (Talk to person outside the door, motion parameters, capture video,etc...)

If this does all like Ring does, then Is better to get Dahua witch is $120.

Curios if we have to run a cat5e,6 wire on the Dahua..

Thanks
 
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