Aiwit 17+

Doorbell is ok, and the picture is clear. App is a simple UI, something Chinese tech interfaces excel in. I currently have 3 days storage. This may change based on other comments. Battery seems ok in cold temps, so far.

The bell reacts a little slowly and has a certain fish eye feel to some images but for the money I can’t really complain. Chime was broken on arrival but selling company has agreed to send a new one, so all ok. As for subscriptions, I only really need the live view but almost every bell has a subscription cost these days - it is how they make most of their money. You won’t find much out there that doesn’t. I also have a Netatmo bell on my front door, which uses an existing Dropbox subscription (so avoids extra subscriptions), but it costs four times the price and has its own issues so all are much of a muchness. Wish it worked with HomeKit though.

I bought a video doorbell with free Aiwit three day playback cloud storage for life stated in the item’s description about 18 months ago. It was good and I was very happy with the quality but since owning the device Aiwit has removed the free cloud storage three times and instead get a screen to take out a six month or yearly subscription at a fee in order to view video playback. The first time I complained to them and they apologised and said it was a technical error and the free storage resumed. A few months later the same thing happened, again with no warning or explanation. When I complained they said they had never promised free cloud storage for life but that as the device had been sold as such by the reseller ie the large online store I had purchased it from they would honour it and so the free storage resumed. Then, in February this year, you guessed it, free storage again disappeared and this time no response at all to my messages. Apparently as they are based in China Trading Standards can’t assist however I contacted the online store I purchased it from and they kindly gave me a refund for the video doorbell. I would, based on my own experience, not recommend Aiwit and hope other customers have a better experience…

This doorbell gets lots of bad reviews but I have to say it’s not that bad, I have had this for around a year now and recently decided to change it to the eufy 1080p, this is because of the constant requests for subscription to view recordings.
So I thought I would invest in a eufy 1080p
Doorbell with local storage, this was after reading reviews with a score of 4 out of 5 but the image quality is far better on the aiwit (far better) and the motion control is far better on the aiwit, ok you can do a lot more in the eufy app but it’s no good if it doesn’t work! The aiwit doorbell didn’t miss much in term of people monitoring but the eufy does.
For the price just pay the subscription it’s just as good as the mid level doorbells if not better. Don’t make my mistake and be £120 pounds lighter for something not as good. My internet connection is excellent on both doorbells but aiwit comes out on top in my book. I don’t understand all the bad reviews although most are due to the subscription and that’s only around £30 a year, that’s 4 years I could have had.