We have a brand new Doorbell cam to check out from @EMPIRETECANDY in exchange for a fair and honest review.
At this juncture some details are not yet available, I will add them here as they become available.
I don't believe this model will be available to purchase until sometime in January, if chip shortages don't delay it.
Purchase at Andy's Amazon store: Amazon Link
*Please try to keep this thread on topic
Pros:
It works pretty much as advertised.
Works with Blue Iris via ONVIF in a limited fashion.
The Human AI works very well and it's associated push notifications to my Android phone.
It has for the most part been very stable for roughly two weeks of running at my front door. Only had a very few drop outs over that time frame. Even while pulling a fulltime stream to BlueIris.
Door bell calls to my phone work as they should, no failures.
You can initiate a call from your phone to the Doorbell, it works.
You have the option to answer a call with a pre-set response with a button push from the phone, Such as: "No one can come to the door right now". You can add your own custom responses as well.
Audio is excellent, although the noise reduction, which can't be turned off, causes weird noise's at times.
Audio in both directions works very well, with very minimal delays.
Picture quality in daytime is very good.
Night time picture quality suffers from excessive noise, due to the use of the 5mp sensor, but it is still a very useable video capture of faces. If you have some light on the porch, this isn't an issue.
It has a light on the bottom that illuminates downwards when it detects motion which helps light a very dark step area.
The doorbell button has an illuminated ring around it.
Record Videos playback ok in DMSS from the SD card.
Push notifications and door bell presses are almost instant.
I am powering the camera with a 12vdc 1.5amp supply. I do not have a traditional doorbell to test it with.
Cons:
I had a hard time initializing the cam, I had to set it back to factory defaults 4-5 times before it was successful, only thing I was able to attribute that to was I wasn't holding my mouth right.
ONVIF triggers don't work with Blue Iris.
You must use the DMSS app on your phone to initialize the camera and control some of it's settings.
You can use SmartPSS for some of its settings, and playback but, Some of the cams settings must be performed in DMSS, and some are only in SmartPSS, Neither app can do it all.
For full functionality, you must use Dahua's P2P service for push alerts and such. It has worked well.
There is no web interface.
Digital Noise Reduction is either on or off, there is no range setting. And when on, it doesn't help much.
It shows a setting of 15FPS, but it only puts out 10FPS, even at that setting. No Iframe adjustments available.
Dahua's IP Config tool does not find it.
Verdict:
It's very obvious they geared it to mainly to be used with a cell phone, and in that vein, it works well, video captures are more than adequate when thinking of using it in that way.
The noise in the night videos is not noticable when viewing on a phone.
It's cluggy that you must use both SmartPSS and DMSS to get settings adjusted. Hopefully this will change with a DMSS update.
IE: there are no picture settings available in the DMSS app, you must use SmartPSS for that.
And as usual, SmartPSS is finicky with settings.
At this juncture some details are not yet available, I will add them here as they become available.
I don't believe this model will be available to purchase until sometime in January, if chip shortages don't delay it.
Purchase at Andy's Amazon store: Amazon Link
*Please try to keep this thread on topic
Pros:
It works pretty much as advertised.
Works with Blue Iris via ONVIF in a limited fashion.
The Human AI works very well and it's associated push notifications to my Android phone.
It has for the most part been very stable for roughly two weeks of running at my front door. Only had a very few drop outs over that time frame. Even while pulling a fulltime stream to BlueIris.
Door bell calls to my phone work as they should, no failures.
You can initiate a call from your phone to the Doorbell, it works.
You have the option to answer a call with a pre-set response with a button push from the phone, Such as: "No one can come to the door right now". You can add your own custom responses as well.
Audio is excellent, although the noise reduction, which can't be turned off, causes weird noise's at times.
Audio in both directions works very well, with very minimal delays.
Picture quality in daytime is very good.
Night time picture quality suffers from excessive noise, due to the use of the 5mp sensor, but it is still a very useable video capture of faces. If you have some light on the porch, this isn't an issue.
It has a light on the bottom that illuminates downwards when it detects motion which helps light a very dark step area.
The doorbell button has an illuminated ring around it.
Record Videos playback ok in DMSS from the SD card.
Push notifications and door bell presses are almost instant.
I am powering the camera with a 12vdc 1.5amp supply. I do not have a traditional doorbell to test it with.
Cons:
I had a hard time initializing the cam, I had to set it back to factory defaults 4-5 times before it was successful, only thing I was able to attribute that to was I wasn't holding my mouth right.
ONVIF triggers don't work with Blue Iris.
You must use the DMSS app on your phone to initialize the camera and control some of it's settings.
You can use SmartPSS for some of its settings, and playback but, Some of the cams settings must be performed in DMSS, and some are only in SmartPSS, Neither app can do it all.
For full functionality, you must use Dahua's P2P service for push alerts and such. It has worked well.
There is no web interface.
Digital Noise Reduction is either on or off, there is no range setting. And when on, it doesn't help much.
It shows a setting of 15FPS, but it only puts out 10FPS, even at that setting. No Iframe adjustments available.
Dahua's IP Config tool does not find it.
Verdict:
It's very obvious they geared it to mainly to be used with a cell phone, and in that vein, it works well, video captures are more than adequate when thinking of using it in that way.
The noise in the night videos is not noticable when viewing on a phone.
It's cluggy that you must use both SmartPSS and DMSS to get settings adjusted. Hopefully this will change with a DMSS update.
IE: there are no picture settings available in the DMSS app, you must use SmartPSS for that.
And as usual, SmartPSS is finicky with settings.
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