What You Be Wary of Installing a $100 Doorbell Button Outside Your House?

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It's a doorbell button which looks like any other doorbell button.

It's $100 because it has a mini camera (which you can't see) which streams video to your smartphone.

Would you be afraid of someone stealing your push button in this situation or not?
 
Not likely - but at least you could watch it happen from your phone.

So you wouldn't mind spending $100 for a doorbell that looks like this? What if it becomes a well known type of doorbell? In other words, robbers may start looking for these black doorbells because it will have high resale value.
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Seriously, I'd be more concerned that the camera field of view from a typical doorbell mounting height would only let you see the visitor's belly.
 
Seriously, I'd be more concerned that the camera field of view from a typical doorbell mounting height would only let you see the visitor's belly.

It will be a wide angle lens installed at the top and angled towards the top as well, so that's not an issue.
 
I'd be more afraid of that I would have to charge to get wires for the door bell operation, camera power, and camera video to the location. B)
 
I wouldn't be worried about doing so (if I have to worry about a $100 doorbell being stolen/tampered with I've got bigger problems), but I'd [personally] prefer something that could be viewed on more than just my phone. I'd like it to be integrated with a CCTV/DVR system, so the video can also be recorded and viewed from anywhere in the world (e.g. browser). That said, I wired my home with CCTV cabling above my front door, so I'd actually be able to see the person(s) as they walk up. My doorbell is installed on a wall which is perpendicular to my front door, if I had a camera there, it would be looking at bricks 99% of the time which are on the other side, and would generally be looking at the side profile of the person(s) once they arrived at my front door. Obviously you can't do anything about the location of my doorbell, but I really can't either, as there simply isn't enough room on either side of the door for it to be installed there. That said, it probably wouldn't be a product that I'd be interested in - at least not for the home I currently live in...
 
It will be a wide angle lens installed at the top and angled towards the top as well, so that's not an issue.

Sooo, the we'd be looking up the nose of the person at the door? :blink:

"Well officer, I can't tell you exactly what he looked like, but he had very hairy nostrils and a possible sinus infection" :rofl:
 
The bigger problem is that I would not (nor would anyone else who can afford a $100 doorbell) buy a doorbell that looks like that.
 
Sooo, the we'd be looking up the nose of the person at the door? :blink:

"Well officer, I can't tell you exactly what he looked like, but he had very hairy nostrils and a possible sinus infection" :rofl:

Aiphone units have a wide angle lens that does a fine job of capturing the person sans nose hairs. Mounting the doorbell at or within ADA height would be fine for capturing the whole person. Unless they are 7' tall, maybe...
 
The bigger problem is that I would not (nor would anyone else who can afford a $100 doorbell) buy a doorbell that looks like that.

The doorbell would look better than that example, but it would still look like a normal doorbell. It can't look to fancy because it would top off thieves.
 
And what is the resale value of a $100 doorbell on the black market sans box? Seriously, even if an entire neighborhood had those same exact door bells, which would never happen, it would likely be too much effort for little return and way too much risk of being caught at some point. Especially, when someone with one of these doorbells would likely have another camera that would catch a glimpse of what the thief looks like. If your product was successful enough where you had to worry about them being stolen, then kudos to you.

David
 
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