Doorbot Wi-Fi Enabled Smart Doorbell (Discontinued by Manufacturer)

I would give it zero stars if I could. Nothing worked properly. Tech support told me all their servers were down and they would have to call me back another day, then told me I needed parts not in the box, that maybe I could buy those while waiting for their servers to be running. They also said they would send me an email explaining what to buy and everything to do, step by step. That email never arrived. It did not work with my indoor chimes. The video was awful. The sound didn't work at all. It's own bell only worked sporadically, and it notified my phone sometimes minutes after the bell was wrung, potentially long after the guest had left. I set up an account on my phone app, but when I went to log in from my computer, it said that email address was not registered. And yet, I was logged in with it on my phone. I tried to set up a new account on my computer with the same address, and it then said an account already existed under that email address. But, again, their website told me that email address had no account when I tried again to sign in. I'm returning this to Amazon and hoping Nest makes a doorbell soon.

I ordered this because of safety concerns in knowing who was at the front door. The installation and set up was a breeze however.....I STRONGLY recommend you purchase a network extender and place it close to this door bell if not your video & audio quality will be absolutely horrible. It doesnt matter if your cell phones wifi reception is at 5 bars where ever you mount your Doorbot, the Doorbots reception is not as strong so get the wifi extender if your wireless router is not close or on the same floor to the Doorbot.Customer service was ok, they got back to me within a few hours.I had the Doorbot mounted for one week using the internal battery but when I had it hardwired I noticed the audio and video quality improved. The internal battery supposedly can last One Year before needing to be recharged.Also be aware that depending on your door chime it may cause a humming or buzzing noise. For me it was only temporary, I believe it was the current actually recharging the Dorbot as I has used it without being hard wired for a week.All in all the Doorbots decent after some issues that cause me some headaches.

I tried this product for two weeks, I really wanted it to work ... But it just doesn't. I went into it "eyes open" I had read of others problems, but I thought as an experienced network guy with a full set of test equipment I could overcome the network speed, range and port issues that seemed to be the excuse for others lack of product satisfaction.Two days into trying to make it work reliably I was at my front door with sufficient test equipment to know that I have an excellent signal, almost 5 Mbps upload speed and I can see the traffic on my unblocked port 443 when the button is pressed. The result is notification delays of between 5 seconds to never, with most being a few minutes, almost always without video.I reported this via email to tech support, what I got back was a request to describe my network in more detail and no comment on my suspicion that the problem was either software or load related at their server.I decided to return the product and replace it with the skybell. I didn't originally buy the skybell because of its lower quality camera spec, but the reality is a low grade video is MUCH better than no video. Skybell has worked with acceptable delay (3-8 seconds) and without fail for the 2 days I have had it installed.

I was a little hesitant about purchasing one of these items because of the early reviews but I must say my experience with this product is all positive.It set up easily. Plug it in and it walks you through the set up. What I see for most of the complaints about this item is a weak W-Fi signal.I had issues as well but they all seemed to be communication issues. The strength of my wi-fi signal at my front door and the DoorBot was …two out of three bars. I thought that would be enough. It is not. I got a choppy image, lack of phoned call communications and sometimes no communication at all. I went to Best Buy and purchased a W-Fi extender for $69. I placed that unit about ten feet from my front door and the DoorBot. Now I have a full three bars of signal strength.Wala! No more issues.

Video Quality is not very good... frequent disconnections even with a decent wifi signals...Mounting on uneven brick surface is very tricky... even a very slight bend will make the unit lose contact with the power (from door bell) thus will drain battery... and won't ring your in-house door bell. Now they came up with the new model (Ring)... not sure if they are any better (I think it has motion detection now), I wished they offer a trade in for people who invest in them early on...I do like that now it saves the video on their cloud, and allows you to download it to your smartphone