Ill sell you mine once i get the Reolink POE.It's been a few weeks now, and the damned DB1C still loses connectivity at least twice every hour, 24 hours a day. At least three or four e-mail exchanges with EzViz Support, and they are being as ignorant as a pre-historic rock. I finally told them to put up or shut up. Either fix the damned firmware problem, or supply a new unit that works reliably. It's really that simple. One solution or the other, and they can choose. If they continue to play ignorant, I'll badmouth them and plunk them in the same crapper with Reolink, reputation-wise.
I'm just sick of incompetent stupidity.
Where did you find 'airtime fairness'? AP? BI? DB Config?Woke up about 4 am with the likely answer. There's a wifi config parameter called 'airtime fairness'. Years ago, it caused problems with poorly-coded wifi firmware. Yup, its still there and it was enabled. Just disabled it again and rebooted the router mesh. Let's see if that finally resolves the issue.
Depends on your router manufacturer. On my Asus routers its under Wireless / Professional, along with the low-level wifi parameters.Where did you find 'airtime fairness'? AP? BI? DB Config?
Thank you, will add this fix to our 101, assume this would affect the DB1s too...This appears to have resolved the issue. In the five hours since i turned off 'airtime fairness', there has not been a single connection failure.
FYI, I informed their customer service team, they should be aware of this feature causing connectivity issues. Many routers default this feature to ENABLED.
I'm not having much luck with the DS-HD2. Doesn't seem to support ONVIF. Anyone else tried it? See the new thread here:It looks like after all this time Hikvision is releasing the same/similar doorbell camera (DS-HD2). Hikvision DS-HD2
Yeah there is no ONVIF support that we are aware of. RTSP works. Many here use VLC as a good test...which you can find in the 101.I'm not having much luck with the DS-HD2. Doesn't seem to support ONVIF. Anyone else tried it? See the new thread here:
Anyone have a Hikvision DS-HD2 on ONVIF or RTSP?
So I have the ReoLink WiFi Doorbell, don't know much about Amcrest but you may want to check out this DBGonna finally throw this thing in the trash. Constant disconnects the last several months when it worked fine for nearly a year before. Gonna try the Amcrest AD410 and see if it works any bettter.
I hear ya, in truth no one even presses the doorbell button anymore...I guess the Smart Doorbells are popular because of their convenience of getting notices via an App without having to have a full BI or NVR setup. For us who do, we could do the same with any of our CAMs, maybe not two way audio, but get alerts. I have mine setup through Home Assistant with an automation to send a snapshot of who ever pressed the button or motion setoff the alert in BI, which again I could do minus the doorbell button press. Well I could have a relay capture the button press and send it through a Sage Z-Wave Doorbell sensor. But again Convenience with a SmartDB.My DB1C drops out all the time. I've tried many different wifi networks, frequencies, and AP locations. Sometimes it is fine and stable. Sometimes it spends 50% of its time frozen in Blue Iris before the watchdog restarts the stream. I honestly doubt any wifi doorbell would do better.
Luckily the doorbell cam is not very important for me. I have better cameras nearby. It wouldn't even be worth running an ethernet cable up behind the siding at this point for a PoE video doorbell.
I have had two of the DB1C and I find it to be great using BlueIris (first one died during a bad firmware update - manufacturer eventually replaced it). BI camera status page shows only 7 no signal errors over last 5 days (some of which are power outage related).My DB1C drops out all the time. I've tried many different wifi networks, frequencies, and AP locations. Sometimes it is fine and stable. Sometimes it spends 50% of its time frozen in Blue Iris before the watchdog restarts the stream. I honestly doubt any wifi doorbell would do better.
@bp2008My DB1C drops out all the time. I've tried many different wifi networks, frequencies, and AP locations. Sometimes it is fine and stable. Sometimes it spends 50% of its time frozen in Blue Iris before the watchdog restarts the stream. I honestly doubt any wifi doorbell would do better.
Luckily the doorbell cam is not very important for me. I have better cameras nearby. It wouldn't even be worth running an ethernet cable up behind the siding at this point for a PoE video doorbell.