GeeniWeather-Resistant Video Doorbell (Black)

(UPDATE 4.2021)I’ve had this doorbell for 8 months now and I’ve decided to give my long-term thoughts on the product. I was going to do this at a year but what the heck, let’s get a little crazy.Overall this video doorbell has great value for the money. There are no subscriptions for general service...yet...I hope it stays that way. There is a sub for cloud storage but that’s optional. Just pop in a 32GB microSD card and it’ll save a week’s worth of video at a time. If you need more back up, then the cloud storage might be for you.This doorbell features motion detection and night vision. Both a little lacking but a nice touch.The motion detection is around 90% accurate once you set the sensitivity and the surveillance area window. This could simply be our placement or whatever but again, overall, it does what it needs to. Night vision isn’t that great. At all. With NV on, field of view shallows out quite a bit, barely being able to see around 8-10 feet away and tends to blow out anything else. So if someone is standing there, they tend to look like a white blob. With night vision off, the cameras auto exposure kicks in and you can see across the street with decent detail for night time video. So I don’t have it turned on.And the last issue I have is that it’s not HD. When I hear “HD” in 2020, I’m thinking 1080p at least. I would be surprised that if you could call it 720p. In the video feed you can choose between SD (standard def) and HD (high def). HD mode is basically an over-sharpened SD video feed however. HD gives you no more pertinent detail in your video.Now, none of this is what I’d call a deal breaker because you can see enough in any instance, especially if someone is at your door or on your porch. But don’t expect to be able to make out facial features of the driver of a car as they drive past.Overall I am happy with the doorbell and don’t regret saving money and skipping the more expensive competitors. Yes, it has its shortcomings but it’s honestly easy to overlook them once you’re using the Geeni, laughing at all those who have to pay every month just to use their doorbell!*(UPDATE 11.2020)Replaced my doorbell transformer and that fixed my issue!*Initial review...if you could call it that! LoL*This is a GREAT alternative to some of the bigger brands.To help me collect my thoughts on this and give a proper review, I need to say that most of the issues I had were a result of putting this on an older house whose previous and only other owner did questionable things with the electrical.That said, if the electrical of my house were better installed, yes including the doorbell wiring, this would’ve been an easy and flawless install, probably 15 minutes give or take a few...not several hours.Once installed, it functioned perfectly. It did so for a couple hours and something changed. We noticed a buzzing/humming from our chime and the doorbell, video and all stopped functioning. I messed with it for a couple days and found a fix using a particular resistor put in place in the circuit. This fixed it! Almost.The video works, it alerts my family to activity, but the chime doesn’t work. CS says it’s the transformer...possibly. *see UPDATE 11.2020*So the only problem I’ve had was trying to troubleshoot the chime, which might be the transformer.This doorbell is easy to install, use and has perks like a fraction of the cost of competitor products and no subscription needed!This makes it so worth it!

Image un mini peu flou mais tres bonne caliter jai rien a redire sur le produit mais le gars qui es venu le porter la "pitcher" sur mon balcon dans ma face et jai pas tres apprecier donc faire attention au livreur... On paye quand meme les produit dune compagnie qui merite pas de ce faire retourner a cause dun tata...

This doorbell works really well, good image, sound, work with the original chime. Only thing that doesn’t work is the sd card reader, its not firm enough so the sd card always fell off. It bought their cloud services (good price) for the recording instead.

I've had this doorbell for about six months and I'm fairly happy with it. Setup was reasonably easy. It works as advertised.Recently, the doorbell started acting up. After a great deal of troubleshooting, I pinpointed the issue to be that the microSD card had failed. I did ask GEENI customer service for assistance, but they weren't very helpful, and in fact I eventually found the problem without their help. I don't know why the SanDisk SD card (which was purchased from a local vendor about the same time I bought the doorbell) failedThe doorbell has a mounting plate that must be attached to the house, and then the doorbell attached to the mounting plate via a screw through the bottom. The doorbell does come with the special wrench needed to tighten the screw, but the installation isn't all that easy if you have 'fat fingers' - the screw is very small so there isn't much to hold onto. Can't imagine what I would do if that screw got lost.Update: about two months after replacing the SD card, the doorbell once again went off line for no apparent reason. I was able to quickly reconnect it, but that's two issues in less than eight months. However, reconnecting is not painless - it is necessary to dismount the doorbell to get access to the reset opening, and that involves removing the mounting screw which is not the easiest task. By contrast, my GEENI outdoor security cam has been working just fine for 14 months with no issues at all.

OUR SON IS GETTING OLDER AND HAS FRIENDS COMING OVER TO VISIT PLUS WITH COVID WE HAVE BEEN AMAZON SHOPPING SO WE THOUGHT WE WOULD DO THIS DOOR BELL CAMERA. WE LIKE THAT THERE IS NO MONTHLY FEE AND THAT WE CAN WIRE DIRECTLY TO WHERE ARE DOOR BELL WAS.LET ME TELL YOU INSTALLATION WAS NOT AS EASY OF COURSE AS PLUG AND PLAY. IF YOU DONT HOOK IT DIRECTLY TO YOUR DOOR BELL THEN YOU NEED TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL POWER SUPPLY HINCE WHY WE PUT IT DIRECTLY ON THE DOORBELL.NOTE IN ORDER TO ADD THIS WE HAD TO DRILL IN TO THE SIDING AND WE HAD TO CUT A LARGER HOLE FOR THE WIRE CLIP TO BE ABLE TO FIT BEHIND THE DOOR BELL. IT REALLY DOES TAKE 2 PEOPLE ONE TO HOLD AND ONE TO ASSEMBLE. I WOULD HIGHLY SUGGEST BEFORE YOU COMPLETELY MOUNT THE SYSTEM YOU CONNECT TO POWER AND THEN SET UP. BECAUSE IF YOU HAVE TO RESET YOUR DEVICE FOR ANY REASON YOU HAVE TO UNMOUNT THE DEVICE. THIS ALSO ALLOWS FOR YOU TO BE ABLE TO ADJUST THE CAMERA WHERE YOU WANT IT BEFORE YOU ACTUALLY MOUNT IT.I DID LIKE THAT IT CAME WITH AN EXTRA BRACKET THAT FITS IT PROPER TO BE ABLE TO MOUNT THE CAMERA AT AN ANGLE THAT WORKED GREAT FOR US.OVERALL I LIKE THE CAMERA AND IT HAS DECENT NIGHT VISION THE ONLY THING LACKING IS THE TIME DELAY ON THE CAMERA. YOUR USUALLY ABOUT 20 SECONDS BEHIND