[heywire]

I’m sure they could, but how many people have Ethernet at their doorbell? We recently built a new home, so I had the opportunity to hardwire all of our cameras, except the doorbells. There just weren’t great options that I could find. Luckily the Amcrest doorbells I chose have been rock solid. They support rtsp, so my NVR records them just like the rest of the cameras.

[sirmoveon]

That's the point I'm trying to make. The popularity of having NVR systems with multiple cameras, rather than just a Doorbell makes it viable to think people would want this option over a supercharged Doorbell — The idea to process object detection at the doorbell is kind of ludicrous.

[gerdesj]

"but how many people have Ethernet at their doorbell?"

With PoE and a UPS too.

Your front door by definition is on an outer edge of your house. You can run conduit externally or whatever internally. It isn't beyond the wit of man to deploy wiring. If you need your "smart" doorbell to always work then you will get ethernet to it and ideally PoE too to power it. A UPS will keep it alive when the power is out.

I also recommend that it is able to trigger a non smart chime too so if all "smart" stuff is unavailable, you still get notified.

When my home (Doorbird) doorbell is pressed: Separate battery backed chime goes off, Sonos speakers say "Ding dong, there is somebody at the door", TVs get a notification, our mobile phone apps twitter.

It is still possible to miss a doorbell press but quite hard. I do all my IoT stuff like that if possible - important stuff still works without the hub/internet/Home Assistant.

[Negitivefrags]

I used to use a doorbird, and for the same reasons as you, but I found the speaker and mic quality to be bad enough that I couldn’t live with it.

Usually I would try and talk to people over it and they wouldn’t even hear that I was talking. If I turned the volume up so that they notice, the over modulation was so bad that they couldn’t understand me.

I ended up just going with a Ring even though it goes against my cloud stance. At least it works.

[sirmoveon]

Did you pay ~USD$400 for a Doorbird doorbell ?

[yurymik]

There's Ring Video Doorbell Elite, so the market isn't completely bare. Yes, it's Amazon and pricey, but it does exist.