Just looking for a general consensus on the best wireless doorbell. I'm in a rental and not particularly handy, so wireless is the best option for me. I want something I can easily take with me when I move.

Right now, based on my own research, I'm in between the Alro and a brand called Door Ringer. Is anyone familiar with these two? I travel for work and I leave for long periods of time, so battery life and cloud storage are the most important features. Live streaming is in a close third.

Thank you in advance!

I'm not familiar with those brands. We have had a Ring for about two years and are happy with it.

I believe OP meant Arlo not alro.

Have their cameras but not doorbell.
Ring seems to be the most widely used and user friendly system.

Wireless ones you will need to remove and charge every so often.

There's really not much to it installing a wired doorbell. You don't need to cut power off or anything. If you have a wired doorbell, take it off, add the ring doorbell (connect two small wires), and that's it. Install is pretty simple.

When you move from the rental, take yours off, add back the original, and be done.

There are videos on YouTube and Ring websites how to install.

We have Ring door bells on the front and back doors.

For what it's worth, I have a couple Arlo cameras (not doorbells) and they are terrible. Sometimes don't connect, sometimes don't record, but always the app asks me if I want to upgrade. I wouldn't buy anything else from Netgear/Arlo.

You'll have to check if your existing doorbell chime can handle the new one.

KDubAg said:

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Wireless ones you will need to remove and charge every so often.

There's really not much to it installing a wired doorbell. You don't need to cut power off or anything. If you have a wired doorbell, take it off, add the ring doorbell (connect two small wires), and that's it. Install is pretty simple.

When you move from the rental, take yours off, add back the original, and be done.

There are videos on YouTube and Ring websites how to install.

We have Ring door bells on the front and back doors.

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You're assuming they currently have a wired doorbell. I don't think I've ever lived in an apartment that had one and my house wasn't wired for one. I had to get creative to install a wired one. Wireless ones aren't great, but it's better than nothing.

OP - I'd go Eufy. No subscription fee unlike Arlo. I've never heard of Door Ringer. My Eufy wired doorbell has been pretty good. It just works.

Same here, our Eufy doorbell seems to work pretty well. I do wish it would start the recordings a bit earlier than the event trigger, but it's fine.

If you are in a rental. Idb just get a battery powered camera like a blink an eufy and not worry about the doorbell part

I've got a lot of arlo cameras at my house and havent had any problems with them..the doorbell is another story. It seems to fall of the network.

I set up wyze cameras at my vacation house and they work well and are cheap. But their battery powered camera have a super short life.

I set up blinks at my parents house to keep any eye on them. The lag is terrible but for the price they can't really be beat

I've been happy with Blink. Have some of their cameras too.

I've got Arlo at both my personal residence and rental. I've had good experience with Arlo but I do pay a few dollars each month for the subscription.
I have a Eufy digital door lock at the STR, and I've been really impressed with Eufy so far.

No matter what you get, ensuring you have a solid and good network is a key ingredient.

kyledr04 said:

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I've been happy with Blink. Have some of their cameras too.

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I have issues with Ring and Blink since Amazon is so cozy with releasing camera footage to the police without a warrant. I don't generally want my camera footage stored in the cloud unless I put it on my own cloud host.

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For what it's worth, I have a couple Arlo cameras (not doorbells) and they are terrible. Sometimes don't connect, sometimes don't record, but always the app asks me if I want to upgrade. I wouldn't buy anything else from Netgear/Arlo.

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I can confirm this for Arlo as well. I have a Ring doorbell and recently replaced all my house Arlo camera with Ring.

kyledr04 said:

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I've been happy with Blink. Have some of their cameras too.

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I researched the Blink camera and I didn't like the way it was configured. You had to have your cameras enabled to have the doorbell camera work.

I would want the doorbell camera to be a separate on/off toggle so I could have it enabled even if the other cameras were off.

txyaloo said:

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kyledr04 said:

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I've been happy with Blink. Have some of their cameras too.

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I have issues with Ring and Blink since Amazon is so cozy with releasing camera footage to the police without a warrant. I don't generally want my camera footage stored in the cloud unless I put it on my own cloud host.

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Its a tradeoff on privacy. I would contend you are exponentially more likely to be helped by this access than to have your privacy violated.

Overall I've been happy with our Eufy cameras. I have 6 wireless cameras plus the doorbell. All work well. My only complaint is there is an occasional delay on the doorbell for notifications, and occasionally it won't pick up a person. I think that's more my setup as we have an odd angle though.

I'm seriously considering having an electrician add some outlets to our roof line so I can get some 24/7 cameras.

This isn't true.

I dropped Ring and have all Blink now. Super cheap and highly configurable. Batteries last wayyyyy longer than anything else.

I have indoor cameras (for a nanny) that are armed during the day, outside armed at night, doorbell always on and tied to an echo show for video/audio announcements.

Sazerac said:

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This isn't true.

I dropped Ring and have all Blink now. Super cheap and highly configurable. Batteries last wayyyyy longer than anything else.

I have indoor cameras (for a nanny) that are armed during the day, outside armed at night, doorbell always on and tied to an echo show for video/audio announcements.

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How do you specify which cameras to arm?

I have 10 blinks and there is a button at the bottom of the app that says arm/disarm. I never saw a way to arm or disarm particular cameras. Do you have more than one sync module?

Sync module for indoors
Sync module for outdoors
Doorbell is running through a sync but has its own control

You can set up schedules for Arm/Disarm for each of the 3 (doorbell can always be armed)

Sazerac said:

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Sync module for indoors
Sync module for outdoors
Doorbell is running through a sync but has its own control

You can set up schedules for Arm/Disarm for each of the 3 (doorbell can always be armed)

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Do you have a "free" grandfathered account? Is the 2nd sync module free also?

I have an extra sync module in a drawer, but never used it. Thanks for the help on this!

I don't think it's grandfathered. But I don't pay any storage fees or anything. Are they charging for more than one sync now?

dubi said:

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Sazerac said:

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This isn't true.

I dropped Ring and have all Blink now. Super cheap and highly configurable. Batteries last wayyyyy longer than anything else.

I have indoor cameras (for a nanny) that are armed during the day, outside armed at night, doorbell always on and tied to an echo show for video/audio announcements.

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How do you specify which cameras to arm?

I have 10 blinks and there is a button at the bottom of the app that says arm/disarm. I never saw a way to arm or disarm particular cameras. Do you have more than one sync module?

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Do y'all have any other home automation? Smart switches work well for arming cameras. Have the HA hub turn on/off the switch when you want interior coverage

Sweet Kitten Feet said:

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Overall I've been happy with our Eufy cameras. I have 6 wireless cameras plus the doorbell. All work well. My only complaint is there is an occasional delay on the doorbell for notifications, and occasionally it won't pick up a person. I think that's more my setup as we have an odd angle though.

I'm seriously considering having an electrician add some outlets to our roof line so I can get some 24/7 cameras.

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Go POE. It's significantly better than running a bunch of 120v outdoor cameras. It's also great to reset a camera w/o having to get on a ladder

Sazerac said:

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I don't think it's grandfathered. But I don't pay any storage fees or anything. Are they charging for more than one sync now?

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They are charging for new accounts on blink where the online storage for old accounts was free. I didn't know if i added a new sync module if it would change my billing status.

Sweet Kitten Feet said:

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Overall I've been happy with our Eufy cameras. I have 6 wireless cameras plus the doorbell. All work well. My only complaint is there is an occasional delay on the doorbell for notifications, and occasionally it won't pick up a person. I think that's more my setup as we have an odd angle though.

I'm seriously considering having an electrician add some outlets to our roof line so I can get some 24/7 cameras.

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I second the Eufy recommendation. My wife and I live in a rental with a broken doorbell, and the wireless functionality gave us the ability to have a working doorbell and better security while making minimal modification to the house. The model we have has a 4K camera, and the battery lasts around 1.5-2 months minimum between charges. It is also quite easy to remove from its charging bracket for charging, and can be converted a wired configuration if later desired.

Thank you everyone for the suggestions!

I did end up going with the Eufy battery powered doorbell. I look forward to testing it out.