August upgrades all Doorbell Cam owners with 24 hours of free video recording

That sounds pretty good. One of the biggest turn offs I've seen is having to pay for the product, potentially pay for its installation, and then pay a monthly fee for service. 24 hours should be good enough for people to test the product realistically and then decide if a longer history is worth the extra cost.

I’ve been shy about a doorbell cam because our bell is mounted on side wall next to the door, not the same wall as the door. All the examples of photos and videos I’ve seen seem to come from straight on. Not sure how effective a profile shot would be—also it won’t show approach and departure. Can’t retire because door wall is all window. 

robin huber said:

I’ve been shy about a doorbell cam because our bell is mounted on side wall next to the door, not the same wall as the door. All the examples of photos and videos I’ve seen seem to come from straight on. Not sure how effective a profile shot would be—also it won’t show approach and departure. Can’t retire because door wall is all window. 

Why not remove that side-mounted bell and just add a camera-bell in the appropriate place. Or you can just leave the other doorbell if you get one that is motion activated, which I think is most of them.

Soli said:

robin huber said:

I’ve been shy about a doorbell cam because our bell is mounted on side wall next to the door, not the same wall as the door. All the examples of photos and videos I’ve seen seem to come from straight on. Not sure how effective a profile shot would be—also it won’t show approach and departure. Can’t retire because door wall is all window. 

Why not remove that side-mounted bell and just add a camera-bell in the appropriate place. Or you can just leave the other doorbell if you get one that is motion activated, which I think is most of them.

Of get real Camera's!!! Camera's that plug into a DVR that you can access from anywhere. You can then mount the Camera's anywhere you want. Maybe one up high pointed to the door, and another near the door up high pointed away from the door. You can then see a person coming and going. Many of these will alert you of motion. You could then view. You put camera's around your place recording 27/7 of everything and some signs up. No one is going to mess with your house. They'll go someplace else. You can just about put the DVR Box anywhere out of the way. You can install into a LOCK BOX if you're really paranoid. Have it plugged into a UPS so it's recording even if power is cut. If your Internet is cut, it's still recording internally.

Forget these toy systems.

Does anyone know if any of these companies who make these things, allow you to direct the device where to store the video. most of these companies want to keep charging you ever month to store information. I have my own NAS so why can i just store it to that verses their servers.