Gabe: Hi folks this is Gabe with Security Baron.
If you're looking for something to help protect your packages and what's going on, on your
porch look no further.
Today we are going to go over our best video doorbells.
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Gabe: In today's look at best video doorbells, I'm going to go over my top picked, in five
different categories.
Best for apartment, best for Google, best wired, best for Amazon, and best value, before
answering some frequently asked questions.
Providing you with the recaps of all the information you need to make the right decision.
If you want to get a full breakdown on the performance details on any one of these devices,
check out our comprehensive written review at securitybaron.com.
There you'll find information on how to implement a video doorbell into the rest of your smart
home ecosystem.
This all can be found at securitybaron.com.
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Gabe: Let's kick off today's best video doorbells with our first category of best for apartments.
Here we're going the Ring Video Doorbell 2.
Why is that?
It does not have to be wired in, you can, but you don't have to wire it in.
It'll work off of a single battery charge of 5 to 10 hours.
It'll work for 6 to 12 months.
Another battery-powered gives you also really impressive video quality.
You're looking at 1080p high-definition video, with a 160 degree field of view.
I'm thinking a lot of what is taking place, almost everything in front of it, it's going
to be able to capture.
As you can see from our shots of me in the daytime, it looks really good.
That tree, you can capture every leaf.
Even when it's dark, with that infrared LED night vision.
You're getting an impressive sight of whatever's taking place.
Another excellent feature of the Ring Video Doorbell 2, its ability to integrate with
the Amazon Virtual Assistant.
If I want to actually see what's happening in front of my door, but don't want to actually
use my phone, I can watch that footage on an Amazon Echo Show device.
If I don't have a Chime in my home, I can use my Amazon Echo Dot, and other Amazon Echo
devices.
I know exactly when someone has rang my doorbell.
When things are taking place in front of your home, you're going to want to of course get
those notifications.
The ability to customize, not only when you're notified, but how much motion needs to take
place for you to be notified, can all be done in the mobile application.
You also of course, want to be able to review and download and share those clips directly
from the app.
If you want that capability, you're going to sign up for the Ring Protect Plan.
That for $3 a month, it's going to give you 60 days of cloud storage of those recorded
motion events and things that you live record.
Despite all these nice features, it's actually a pretty hearty device.
Handling minus 5 to 120 degrees Fahrenheit.
It's water-resistant.
It's just solidly built.
You can see why it's our pick for best video doorbell for apartments.
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Gabe: The next category on our list of best video doorbells is best for Google.
Here we're going with the Nest Hello Video Doorbell.
The Nest Hello Video Doorbell integrates really well with Google Assistant.
Allowing for you to control elements of your doorbell just using your voice.
For example, I can say, "Show me the front door."
Then I'll just see what's going on live on my Google Nest Hub, my Google Nest Hub Max,
or Google Chromecast-enabled device.
If that's not enough, my devices can also service Chime.
If someone rings the doorbell, I can hear it from my Google Nest Mini.
The Nest Hello really brings it when it comes to video quality.
As you can see it has 1600HD video, with HDR and a 4:3 aspect ratio on top of a 160-degree
field of view.
It's capturing everything that's taking place.
It's giving you this nice vertical, so you're not going to miss a thing.
Which really comes in handy when you're using an eight-time digital zoom just to see what
type of sneakers someone is wearing.
If you can see from our video, all the folks coming in and out of the house.
You're really capturing everyone.
It's a really impressive perspective that you're getting with the Nest Hello Video Doorbell.
That extends into the night vision with that infrared LED.
You can see exactly what's taking place.
You don't have to worry about car lights actually washing it out.
You're still going to be able to capture what's happening.
Now, with the Nest Aware subscription, you get even more out of your Nest Hello Video
Doorbell.
The fact that you can pick up person detection.
You get alerts when people are in front of your door.
Along with familiar face alerts.
If people ever coming in, or people the device actually recognizes, you know who it was.
You know when the babysitter comes home.
You know when your kids are home.
You can even get a package detection so that when someone has dropped off a package, you're
going to be notified from wherever you happen to be in the world.
Furthermore, with the Nest Aware subscription, you're able to get continuous recording.
Which allows you to scrub that video.
Make your own clip.
You can share it, download it to your phone, do whatever you'd like.
Just whatever your heart feels.
That's a tremendous feature with the Nest Hello that we've seen with very few other
cameras, let alone doorbells.
You can see why we picked the Nest Hello Video Doorbell.
It's our best video doorbell for Google.
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Gabe: The next category on our list for best video doorbells is, best-wired doorbell.
Here we're going with the Arlo Video Doorbell, which was incredibly easy to wire to my home.
It has all the tools that you need right inside of the box.
The process of setting it up is facilitated by the mobile application.
Setting up the video doorbell is a cinch.
I had it done in less than 10 minutes, and I was ready to go.
When it comes to video quality on Arlo Video Doorbell, it is impressive.
It's got 1536p high-definition video.
In fact, it has 1536x1536, so it's a 1:1 aspect ratio.
It's really capturing the length of a human being.
If you see my buddy coming in.
You can note that you can see his face really well, there's not a single feature that you
can't make out.
It has 12x digital zoom.
Allowing for you to really see what's going on.
That 180 field-of-view is going to capture everything taking place on the block or in
your cul-d-sac, depending on where you live.
When it comes to night vision.
It's also mighty impressive with the infrared LED sensors.
You can see absolutely everything I'm doing as I walk up and down the stairs.
Generally speaking, a fantastic perspective.
A great feature on the Arlo Video Doorbell is the fact that when someone actually rings
your doorbell, it makes a video phone call to your mobile device.
There, you can decide to either return that call with either a prerecorded message like,
"I'm not home right now," or "Please leave a package at the door."
You can actually answer it directly and talk to the person right there on your screen.
With Arlo Smart subscription you can unlock advanced features, like activity zones.
Maybe you don't want to get every single motion detection alert that's taking place in front
of your home.
But you want to see exactly who's in front of the door, or who's coming up the steps.
You can get that with the Arlo Smart Plan and setting up those activity zones.
You may also want to have different detection notifications set up.
With the Arlo Smart Plan, you can do that.
You can get person detection, animal detection, package detection, car detection.
You're really able to distinguish between these different motion alerts that are going
off.
Finally, for someone who wants, of course, download, share, save various clips, you get
30 days of cloud storage with the Arlo Smart Plan.
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Gabe: The next category on our list is the best video doorbell for Amazon.
Here we're going with the Ring Video Doorbell Pro.
The Ring Pro is our choice because once you wire it into your home, you're essentially
it directly into your Amazon Smart Platform.
You can take the video and import it directly to your Amazon Echo Show.
Amazon Echo Show 8, Amazon Echo Show 5, using just your voice.
Even your Amazon Fire TV can put on exactly what's happening on your porch at the sound
of your voice.
You can use your voice to control all of that.
It the other way you can use it, is for the Chime functionality.
If you have an Amazon Echo Dot, Amazon Echo Dot with Clock, Amazon Echo, you can use all
of those as Chimes for your Ring Pro Video Doorbell.
When it comes to video, it's really brainient.
It has 1080p high-definition video, 160-degree field of view, digital zoom.
Just really capturing things in this nice color.
You see these day-time shots of me in front of the Ring Pro.
You'll see, you can capture me fully.
You can see exactly what's happening.
When that extends to night vision, the infrared LEDs allow for a clarity that we hope to see
with every video doorbell out on the market.
When it comes to notifications, you want to get them directly to your phone.
Maybe you want to only get the ones that you care about.
That's where activity zones come into play.
With the Ring Pro, you're able to set up your own activity zones.
Basically deciding where exactly in that square box of what you're seeing, you're actually
going to capture that motion.
Then, anything that takes place in that activity zone, that motion zone essentially will be
sent as a notification to your phone.
You can see exactly what is going on.
That's a really useful part of the Ring Pro, mobile application.
If you want to review, share and download their clips, you can get the Ring Protect
Plan.
That's going to give 60 days of cloud storage for $3 a month.
Allowing you to really review anything that's taken place for two months.
Now you can see why picked the Ring Pro Video Doorbell as our top pick for best Amazon video
doorbell.
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Gabe: The final category on our list of best video doorbells, is best value.
Here we're going with the Eufy Video Doorbell.
The Eufy Video Doorbell is affordable to begin with.
It gives you a ton of functionality, then you realize you don't have to buy anything
else to have a complete video doorbell experience.
With the Eufy Video Doorbell, you're getting 2K video quality with 160-degree field of
view.
Look at the crisp resolution that you're seeing.
It has a 4:3 aspect ratio, so it's capturing all of that in this nice vertical perspective.
Really impressive across the board.
There's HDR to help correct for daylight distortion.
Overall a great day-time experience.
When you look at it at night, the infrared LEDs provide for a nice vibrant experience,
no matter how dark it is on your front porch.
We're looking at the Eufy advanced features.
You have elements like custom motion zones, where you can decide exactly where you want
to begin your notifications of things taking place.
You don't want to get the whole street, but you do want to see who's exactly in front
of your door, or maybe to the left or right of the door by a bit, you can do so.
Along with the ability to get person detection alerts.
Those person detection alerts are pretty interesting, in that it essentially looks for the shapes
of someone's face.
Once it sees that, it'll actually send a snapshot of that directly to your mobile device.
Finally, the Eufy Video Doorbell has four gigabits of free local storage.
This is rolling storage allowing you to take the clips that have basically been downloaded
directly to the device.
Download them to your mobile device or share them with friends and review them at your
leisure.
You can see why we gave it our pick as the best video doorbell when it comes to value.
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Gabe: Now I want to answer some frequently asked questions regarding smart video doorbells.
The first question is, what is a smart video doorbell?
A smart video doorbell is a device that allows you to see exactly what's happening in front
of your home.
This helps you to prevent package theft, see who's actually at your front door, and just
generally integrate into the rest of your smart home ecosystem.
The next question is, is a smart video doorbell worth it?
Yes.
I think a smart video doorbell is a good investment.
It allows you to not only have an extra sense of security, but it also lets you see who
all has been by your home through the course of the day.
The last question is, can a smart doorbell be hacked?
Generally speaking it's difficult to hack a video doorbell.
However, it is of course, vulnerable to the same attacks you can lob at any other device
that you use a repeated password or username for.
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Gabe: All right, now we've covered a lot today in our best video doorbells video.
I want to provide you with a brief recap on why each one of these devices has made our
list.
We started off today looking at our best video doorbell for apartments.
Here we're going with the Ring Video Doorbell 2.
The Ring Video Doorbell 2 is battery powered.
Meaning you do not have to wire it into your home.
You can do whatever you'd like video doorbell wise.
Pick it all up and move again when your landlord raises the rent.
The best video doorbell for Google is the Nest Hello.
Which integrates seamlessly with other Google products, like the Google Nest Hub, the Google
Nest Hub Max, and even Google Chromecast-enabled devices.
Which can all actually show you the video from exactly in front of your door.
On top of that, it has impressive video quality, and a 4:3 aspect ratio that's not going to
miss a thing.
The best-wired video doorbell is the Arlo Video Doorbell, which wires itself into your
home's existing system in minutes.
It comes with an impressive array of features, like video calls that you're going to get
directly to your mobile device when anyone rings your doorbell.
You can either decide to have a two-way audio conversation where you can actually see that
person, or you can respond with a prerecorded message.
The best video doorbell for Amazon is the Ring Pro.
It's top of the line and it integrates with the Amazon system seamlessly.
We're talking about the ability to use your Amazon Echo Dot, your Amazon Echo Dot with
Clock, as Chimes.
If you want to port the live stream of what's taking place in front of your home to your
Amazon Echo Show, Show 8, Show 5 or even Amazon Fire TV, you can do that very easily.
Just use your voice and your Ring Pro video doorbell.
When it comes to best value video doorbell, we had to go with the Eufy.
The Eufy's providing 2K video resolution.
You just can not beat how crisp and clear it is with that HGR 4:3 video and 180-degree
field of view.
It's just an impressive video quality.
The fact that we're able to get, also that local storage at no additional price, made
it an easy pick for us when it comes to best value.
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Gabe: All right, that's our look at best video doorbells.
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As always, this is Gabe with Security Baron.
Be secure.
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