Took a sledgehammer to my old 2k DoorBell Cam and never looked back

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Took a sledgehammer to my old 2k Door Bell Cam and never looked back.

My previous door bell cam was only 2k with a very low field of vision. I could not even see packages left by FedEx or UPS on my doorstep. It used only "video pixels" to detect humans, animals, insects, birds, you name it. Using only "video pixels" will not cut it unless you want to deal with constant false alarms. I did this for over two years! (old technology)

There are newer designed door bell cams which has 4k high definition with a very wide field
of vision along with PIR (passive infrared motion) radar motion and "pixels" detection
all combined into one unit. On my new doorbell 4K HD cam false alarms disappeared over night.

I not here to promote any hardware on this forum but a simple search on Amazon will reveal
the newer technology 4K HD door bell cams.

BTW ... Beware you need to be somewhat computer proficient setting up the newer 4K HD Cams.
I am in my reliable testing phase with this Doorbell Cam to see if it is reliable enough to be running along side with my very reliable Hubitat HE C7 system. :grinning:

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What make/model are you using?

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Actually I can’t find any 4K video doorbells on Amazon. Which ones are 4K?

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Hint: It was reduced by $125.00 at Amazon - that got my attention. The firmware was not up-to-date and I had to send my first door bell unit back. On the second unit, I had to reach, in my bag of tricks to get it working with my gateway-router. A gateway full reset did the trick. I will not reveal this doorbell cam until my testing phase is finished.

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Can you just tell us?

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AOSU Doorbell Camera Wireless, aosu 5MP Ultra HD, No Monthly Fee, Triple Motion Detection Video Doorbell with Homebase, Enhanced (2.4/5 GHz) WiFi, 180-Day Battery Life, Work with Alexa & Google Assistant

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Ah that explains it. 4K = 8MP. Your old 2K doorbell was 4MP.

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My Old 2k DoorBell Cam
Feit Electric DoorBell Cam - 1080p HD Video with 130Ëš Wide Field of View $75
1080p has a resolution of 1920 by 1080 pixels.

What is 1080p, 2K, UHD, 4K, and 8K resolution?
There are two different types of video resolution. They could be classified as Standard Definition or SD and High Definition or HD. The 640Ă—360 and 640Ă—480 for video and 720Ă—480 and 720Ă—576 for DVD are the most popular standard resolutions. For HD video popular resolution is 1280Ă—720 (720p) or 1920Ă—1080 (1080p). The resolution 1080p is also known as Full HD or FHD.
Here is a concise form of various sorts of video resolution for better understanding.

720p= 1280 x 720 – is popularly known as HD or HD Ready resolution;
1080p= 1920 x 1080 – is called FHD or Full HD resolution
2K = 2048 x 1080 – this means the displays that have about 2000 pixels horizontal resolution. This is considered as a different resolution standard, although it is close to the 1080p resolution standard.
1440p = 2560 x 1440 – is usually known as QHD or Quad HD resolution, and could be found on high-end smartphones and on gaming monitors.
4K or 2160p = 3840 x 2160 – is popularly known as 4K, UHD or Ultra HD resolution.
8K or 4320p = 7680 x 4320 – is commonly known as 8K resolution, which is 16 times more pixels than the regular 1080p FHD or “Full HD”.

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3840 x 2160 = 8,294,400

Or about 8 megapixels.

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This OP seems a little fishy to me... Some random guy pushing some random doorbell, not even brave enough to post under his name.
Anyone else get this vibe?

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@user494

Some real life image comparisons between your two video doorbells would be valuable to illustrate the difference you’ve apparently experienced.

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A little?

I’ll refer you to the title and bet you that isn’t going to happen :wink:

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Sounds like a nice doorbell camera and kind of what I have benn looking for. But unfortunally it doesnt seem to be found at amazon.se. :slightly_frowning_face:

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Not until I finished my testing of this doorbell. There is no use in going further until it works for me.

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Very few of us are using our real names here, Rxich…

OP may not have changed his forum handle from what was auto-assigned when his account was created. But I’m not sure that has any bearing on the discussion.

I’m mostly just confused about the claims re: 4K doorbells. I’ll say it again, I can’t find any 4K doorbells on Amazon. How is the doorbell mentioned above displaying 4K resolution if it’s a 5MP camera?

Having to send one unit back and then jump through networking hoops to get another one working hardly sounds like the makings of a glowing tech product review.

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Two specs.

Doorbell Spec. comparison (seeing is believing):
"old cam" 1080p with 130 degree field of view.
"new cam" < 4k ultra high definition @ 5 Megapixel with 166 degree field of view.

Please check Amazon's website for the visuals.

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Still not following you.

The product page says it’s 5MP with a 4:3 aspect ratio.

How does that equate to the resolution commonly referred to as 4K?

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I not here to do glowing tech reviews. All I am doing is to inform "others" of my issues with this new high tech doorbell camera. It took some time to deploy this doorbell camera but it is the focal point of my home automation system along the HE. (IMHO)

As noted: Amazon has a 30 day free return policy on all doorbell cams.

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The supplier (offshore China) is somewhat overzealous in their specs.

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I can see that. If you were a shill for this video doorbell manufacturer (as some people are concerned), presumably you would not have pointed out the issues you’ve had with it since opening the box (two boxes, actually, since you had to send the first one back).

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