So installed one of these about a week ago and I have had ZERO latency issues on notifications and the video pulls up within 3 seconds for me typically unless I'm in a bad service area for my phone. I was satisfied and sold my ring doorbell and am sticking with the Wyze. I am now actually able to answer my doorbell before people leave.

what doorbell without the monthly fee do you recommend?

Thank you for the review have been considering the Wyze doorbell. At 9:50 when plugging in the door bell chime what's the gadget below it?

Why is the chime box disabled?

Thanks for your valuable video. Does it have the option to record video on a SD card?

How do you fix the stucco?

I hope you saved that old door bell, it is probably worth something

How does this compare to a ring doorbell?

My Wyze doorbell cam has failed after about a week. It keeps shutting off and on along with the WYZE light. It will not connect anymore.

Detection zone is working now. Never buy a Eufy camera. Had 2 in 6 months. They are terrible.

No need. It works with a micro usb to function. Search it

Detection zone selection is now available for the doorbell cam in the latest software update from Wyze.

I think this guy is asking for a LOT of features for a $30 video doorbell. Ring is ~100 to 300, Eufy is ~ 160. This Wyze doorbell doesn't require a monthly fee either.

I’ve had my Wyze Doorbell installed for three weeks, if someone rings the doorbell I’m notified but it misses package deliveries about 75% of the time. I threw my Wyze Outdoor camera in the garbage because of latency issues.

Would like to see the zoning area being put back on as I have people walking by all the time, but with the zoning it would only start when a person actually gets into my zone and it would definitely work a lot better for me with other new kits coming out all the time. PS loved the old door bell

Is it easy to steal?

Since you are walking up to your door, I wonder if your phone is taking time accessing the WIFI which leads to even longer delay. Or did you have the WIFI turned off on the phone for the test? Would there be any difference if you left your phone by the door and see how much delay there is?

What bothers me is that you've just secured the mount to your house with screws and anchors, but you've "secured" your smart device with some tiny plastic clips and a couple of small wires. What's to keep the thief or whoever from just ripping the expensive part off and walking away with it. I know it won't be of much use on the secondary market, but you're out the cost of a replacement. Don't know if other smart doorbells have this same issue. And at least the Wyze won't set you back a lot of $$ to replace. I do wish Wyze would step up their development efforts. Features and bug fixes are on one of the longest roadmaps I've ever witnessed and this appears to be a long-standing issue for them according to the history on their forums. But at the price point their products are pretty on-point. -Wyze Cam v3 owner

A porch pirate will not ring your bell, so the light coming on is a good thing, but they could be long gone when you get the alert

Could the latency issue be a lag between your wifi connection since youre outside of the house? I would redo the experiment but turn off wifi and use your phones data and see how long the motion detection takes. Great video btw

Nice, but why does it force you to keep the "chime box" if it comes with its own?!? It should allow you to replace your old one for theirs! Kinda weird keeping it and having to use one that is taking up an outlet.. If they are going to go that route, they should make it so that you can install it for a residence without any doorbell.

Don't count on the software at all... it's pretty crap... I have it installed on a tablet that its only job is to monitor my cameras and the software crashes every 20 minutes... and if you lose internet, forget about ANY of your Wyze products functioning...

This doorbell isn't going to be very useful without the cam plus subscription. The cam v3 with their zone still had a ton of false alerts without the subscription. I broke down and added it to my cams. I preordered the doorbell last year. Didn't know it was so featureless. Granted... the price is really low. Definitely, not as useful as the Nest.

Can you try the notification again with WiFi off (fully off not just iOS disabled)? It's likely that the motion detection was delayed if your phone was joining the WiFi right as it tried to notify you.

Those things inside the breaker panel are commonly known as circuit breakers.

They released new firmware and an app update that allows for detection zones!

Great review! Thanks. I will play with my doorbell soon and this gives a better understanding ahead to us. Great job! And yes, I hope the detection latency will be lesser after furure software or firmware updates.

On back of doorbell says 16 to 24 volts ac. My son's doorbell measures at 13 volts ac. So is it a no go for his house, what do you all think? I started to hook his up but measured voltages at chime cause i was wondering what voltage it was..

But in all fairness, when the camera detects motion, doesn't it send an image to your phone. And if so, wouldn't that delay the notification if your routers wifi is slowed down by all those other wifi products you have connected? I mean, that would explain the slow "motion detected" notification, and the fast "doorbell notification."

Notification is not acceptable Intruders could of already got into your home and you aren’t pre warned 👎

Do you lave low wifi signal at the front of your house near the doorbell button. Wondering if that could have lagged the response. When you pressed the button it was pretty instantaneous.

Is the “fuse-wire” an actual fuse, or a step-down resistor to drop the voltage from 12-16 to 5, like a usb voltage? There is a usb under the piece of gray tape on back of the doorbell unit.

My buddy got me wyze stuff as a gift. We have lock w/keypad and one v3 that we use as a baby monitor. I get notifications really fast from both products. The only delay I have experienced was with the camera's audio. There is maybe a 5-10 second delay on my audio which isnt bad in my opinion. I'm hoping they start selling the doorbell again so I can try one out.

Okay... where's the actual test of answering and talking? Wyze cam sound quality is crap so I'm sure everyone is wondering about the audio quality. But judging by the 'UPS guy' sample, I can already tell the audio has same crackling and static in the audio. What a shame.

At 7:33 did you seriously drop your screwdriver?

I am happy with mine. Also a backer of the doorbell, for $30 it's worth every penny

Awesome job and honest review loved your detailed video loved your instructions on the chime setup inside with the wires that was very well videography and directions

Excellent video. The doorbell right now is out of stock so I will need to wait. Had you try to connected it to HomeKit maybe via Homebridge?

Why does the new ring doorbell look even more appealing over time?

Damn that latency is a deal breaker. What's the point right. Hopefully wyze updates it

If you have the Amazon echo Alexa app you can pair that with the Alexa and have it send notifications or even setup routines with the echo. The Alexa notification will be much faster than the wyze notifications. I use it with my wyze cams and Alexa notification arrive a few seconds faster than wyze. That's only because it's just a notification that Alexa is sending. Wyze is doing more so it will take a little longer.

Ted Lasso, is that you? 😎 Thanks for the useful video

Damn, 27 seconds is REALLY BAD for motion detection

3:20 Is it possible it skip the step of fusing the wires together in the existing chime, so you can have both the Wyze chime and the exiting one ring at the same time? That's what I want, more chimes ringing all over the house. I just received my Wyze door bell (also that little "I backed" sticker) and haven't started doing anything. I asked Wyze but they said no, reason being the outsize unit needed power. But my current outside button already receives power (the light is glowing), so this should be feasible right? :)

Why are your breakers outside your home?

Based on your comments here and on the discussion on the forum, I am very disappointed this "wired" door bell doesn't actually ring the existing bell. I will probably just return mine if they don't fix it. ( forums.wyzecam.com/t/have-wyze-doorbell-use-existing-chime/125455/46 )

Is your fuse panel outside by your electric meter? I suppose that anyone who knows that can simply sneak around and turn off the power in your home if they wanted to burgle it without worrying much about the various security devices.

Just got mine installed today and my findings are in line with these. It was a timely purchase anyway. My mechanical chime for the front door stopped working and this replaces it, but still use the old chime for my side door. I was also disappointed that no micro SD card option was not included, and the intercom feature is far too low in volume.

This will disable my existing chime? Don't like that, and didn't have to do that with Ring. Can I "skip that step"?

I just remembered something else that might help you. I noticed you went and spliced the wires going to your old wall chime, this adds many feet to wire for the power to get back to the video doorbell. People don't realize that some houses have over 100ft going to the old wall chime and back to the doorbell, even 30 ft. is adding a drop in power so that by the time the power reaches your video doorbell it's a lot lower when there is a load on it, someone ringing doorbell and it is trying to transmit video back to Wyze. If at all possible just try to get a set of wires from the transformer directly to the doorbell and disconnect the wires on the transformer that feed the old wall chimes because that is adding wire length that is reducing the power that actually gets to the doorbell video unit. Also when you test power at the video doorbell, it's not enough to just test it with a multimeter at the end of the wires going to the doorbell, you need to see what it is when there is a load like someone ringing the doorbell and Video being transmitted which is not easy to do. I don't know if Wyze tech support has the ability to tell you by looking at your doorbell in their software while you stand in front of it, but I would love for them to include it in the Wyze app for the doorbell. The ability to see what the power is that the doorbell is getting when someone there on live video would help diagnose if your video doorbell has enough power. As an example, when I had issues with a ring doorbell once, and was on the phone with their original support team they could see on their end the actual power level at the doorbell when I pressed the ring button and the drop in power when the video was live, which is why the ring video feed was freezing and not stable even though the wire was only 12ft from the doorbell to the transformer. We immediately replaced the transformer with the more powerful 24vac -40VA and all issues went away. Of course you don't get this kind of support anymore on Ring, the new support people know nothing and are just reading off a script it seems (I've installed over 15 Ring doorbells so have been on phone with them a few times). As a default though for any video doorbell I install or help family/friends install, first thing I do is upgrade the transformer to minimum of 24vac-40VA, they are low cost on Amazon less than $20 and save you hours in headaches troubleshooting intermittent/freezing video.

The latency is the event snippet video time

I looked at this doorbell camera but was surprised you couldn't use your existing chime. That little chime can't sound as good as a regular digital chime such the IQ America chime I use with the ring doorbell. How loud is it and what is the sound quality?

And did you try the two way audio??

Can you put a meter on the wires to find out what is the voltage is running? No information in the voltage requirements! Anyone can help??

what is the transformer power you are using for your video demo of the Wyze? If it's the old one that came with your house, it is probably less than 16vac and weak. I found that boosting to a 24VAC made a dramatic change for all the video doorbells I tried including the Ring and the Wyze. I used the "Elk TRG2440 24VAC, 40 VA" which is available on Amazon. Even my neighbor who was getting lag and dropped video, after a Transformer upgrade , all his issues went away, and his doorbell wire was only about 12 ft from doorbell to the garage, so he did not think he needed a stronger transformer, yet this boost in power solved all the issues. If you look online at Wyze details, it says (Hardwire required: 16V-24V AC, ≥10VA) but the 16v 10va ones I have found in past to just be too low powered leading to issues with live feed when someone is at the door, this was a problem with my Ring also until I boosted to the stronger transformer.

I don't see an option to add the Doorbell Chime. Do I have to go through the entore setup wizars again? Of O try to add another device, the chime isn't listed at all.

So at 12:12 you have the sensitivity turned way down. Doesn't this affect how quick it will pick you up and send the notification? I have my Wyze cameras set higher and get notifications really quick. I have not had any issues with any of my Wyze products except a v2 cam getting wet from the plug and then not working. Other than this great video.

I have V3 cameras. The zones don't work. The camera still picks up things outside of the zones.

Is the notification for a video clip?, so it takes that amount of time to upload the video, maybe it should be instant saying "doorcam alert - video uploading" that is the way it should be set up, almost instant like someone ringing the bell!.

Whatever Wi-Fi chip they have in there is SUPERIOR to the ring. Instantly can connect to the doorbell unlike my ring that takes damn near a whole minute to open and connect.

Great video thanks for sharing. You got it all. Now I can decide to buy it or not .

adam lz sr?

Curious- Is this setup running off of the home’s original doorbell transformer, or had that already been replaced? I’ve considered that I may need to replace my transformer, unfortunately, but having major problems locating it in my late 60’s ranch style house. May be time to dig through the blown in attic insulation some more to find it.

I would love to try this doorbell but it doesn’t seem to really exist. I’ve been on their email list since November and got tiered of not hearing from them. Don’t put out these videos unless there’s a product out there to buy.

I would think the delay with door bell notifications is due to your wifi speeds. Results should be different as it depends on each users internet wifi speeds.

Thank you for the honest review of the Wyze Video Doorbell. Hopefully the delays will be reduced in future software updates.

Nice, but you really should be testing latency using your phones LTE connection and not WiFi.

Very thorough video. Great mustache.

Great vid. I saw you had the sprinkler setup on your wyze app. Did you do a video for that as well?

Doorbell cams blow. Get a good WiFi cam (there are a bunch of them) and put it up 'over' the front door where someone can't reach it. Way better solution.

What about the 2 way audio?

Great review. I have a few of the cams, they are ok for the price, but they need improvement. BTW, They say the doorbell will have detections zones soon like the cams. I was also hoping they put in a slot for a memory card like the cams, but then people won’t pay the monthly subscription. I hope you do a follow up soon. Thanks for the vid 🙂

Hi fantastic video again I did pre-ordered my wyze video doorbell I sent it to my American address then shipped to the UK I received it last week in the UK couldn’t believe how small it was and it did work in the UK like the rest of my wyze products I have ordered in the past. Forgot to say I have pre-ordered the Wyze watch and Wyze color bulbs and the Wyze home monitoring I do have the Wyze subscription they take the money out off my UK bank account

Just to mention that the latency when you push the doorbell button was fast but this is because your phone was not asleep as it was for your motion detection test. Good job on the review

I think you forgot to mention when you connect the wires with the doorbell. Does it matter which wire go to which? For example, red goes with + and white go with - sign. The rest of the video is very informative. Thanks.

Thanks for video. Impressed except for lag time for notification. I don't understand why the motion detection and activate LED 10 or more seconds before notification on phone is triggered. When a visitor doesn't stick around like the package delivery guy is there any notification at all?

Too bad they didnt integrate a relay for the original chime . probably as simple as the wifi chime

did turning off the AI feature speed up the response time to motion.

The moment he said " I will give honest review, not like other USpostsrs". I said to myself that's it I ain't watching anymore. Be yourself , don't point fingers at others. The audience will come.

great video man!, that is exactly what I was looking for, the difference between the motion detection and the actual notification when someone rings the doorbell, I did think that the motion notification is the same the all the Wyze cams, it's around 15-17 secs for you to get the notification, even with the CAM PLUS subscriptions enabled, I think as long as the notification when someone presses the button is immediate, you could deal with the 17 secs of the motion detection, hopefully they fix it this year as they are releasing more and more products.

Good info...the bottom screw on the wedge mount didn't go into your stucco..😮 if you get the cam plus the notification will be faster..

I have a delay on most of my products when I’m testing it. Due to my home WiFi connected to my phone.. Try disconnecting your WiFi on you cell.. most would be off of WiFi anyway when traveling.. 👍

Can you just remove the original doorbell box in the house since it doesn't work anymore?

How was the 2-way audio?

Question do you have to subscribe to cam + in order to get the notifications when someone just rings the doorbell. We live in a small town and I don't have a lot of people coming to the door. Mainly want it for when I am in the basement and can't get to the door fast enough

Just got mine today, waiting on the power source. I am switching to all Wyze for my home security, but the delay for notifications is my biggest issue. Other than that I love all the simplicity and how economical the system is.

If pornstash came ringing my doorbell........

I wish it had micro SD card like the standard cameras for longer recordings

I have subscribed waiting for it to be available...nice to see this review

Thumbs up for another reviewer with the same network name as me. I can only wait to test out my Wyze Doorbell. Too much snow at the moment. Nice to see that it should be better then my current Skybell Trim. Keep up the good work.

I like Wyze products but the only thing is that it takes long for them to notify you when there is motion on there cameras or doorbell . If they fix this issue through software update it can be the best.