Home Automation

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Home automation is the residential extension of building automation.

It is automation of the home, housework or household activity.

Home automation may include centralized control of lighting, HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning), appliances, security locks of gates and doors and other systems, to provide improved convenience, comfort, energy efficiency and security.

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Best wired video doorbell (Arlo/Eufy/Ring) (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What would you consider the best video doorbell for the price, preferably wired. I have an old doorbell now, which is wired. I don’t want to mess around with batteries and receivers if not necessary. I am in doubt between an Arlo, Eufy or Ring.

Seems like Eufy wired one is hard to get (even though it’s on the website). The Arlo is an option, but do you really need the subscription? Ring would be my last option now because of price. But maybe someone has good arguments for the Ring over the others…

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I have Ring. I haven't tried anything else. Something I like about Ring is each person in the house gets their own app account and can configure their own notification preferences. When I was looking at options 4-5 years ago (when I bought my first Ring) it generally wasn't clear to me if other systems had this.