I love mine. These things are great.
I had one of these. I started getting delayed notifications of someone ringing the bell and people had a hard time hearing me. Also changing batteries all of the time became a pain and it’s costly. The batteries that these take are hella expensive. I live in an apartment so it seemed convenient and inexpensive, but I switched to a Google Nest and it was worth it. The price may be more, but you’ll save just on batteries in the long run. I’ve had no notification delays and people can hear me just fine.
My Ring video doorbell uses proprietary ring rechargeable batteries so I did buy an extra to always have one charged up. But it doesn’t burn thru the battwries, have to charge it about once a month.
I turned off the motion detection on the doorbell, but I have a blink camera above the door that is powered for motion detection.
No delays on my bell. However, if my wife looks at the video of the person at the door but doesn’t ask said person who they are and what they want, you might never find out. One user can watch live at a time.
More accurately who they say they are. I’ve had weirdos ask if they can have a glass of water…WHAT?
I bought one of these new and they don’t use any special type battery. And I’ve had it for a couple months now and the battery is still good. Mine is not wired in and I have one of those mounts that just clamps onto the door. I’ve had no issues with mine. In fact I had to turn the sensitivity down to one because it went off all the time when people walked yards in front of it or if cars drove by.
I do have mine set to record 15 seconds or less and then reset again whenever the motion sensor is triggered, because if you do more time than that it does suck down the battery. Mine also has a setting to turn off the recording once movement has stopped, so it doesn’t record 15 seconds every time. It’s also helpful to have the central monitoring unit that you can plug in inside your place. You can also put a thumb drive in it so that it records the movement and you don’t have to pay for the monthly service fee.