Covey Homes 4+

There should be an easier way to connect doorbells and internet connections. The doorbell will disconnect and the WiFi removed, and you have to go through the entire reset doorbell process for it to work again. I rather use my ring doorbell than this. It’s even worse that the doorbell is wired in, and yet still does not display the camera. The reset button doesn’t work on the app either.

Unable to select dates to view past doorbell footage. Doorbell camera doesn’t record or catch 95% of activity outside unless someone rings the doorbell. Etc. Poor video quality. Lackluster and poorly built app with a mediocre UI. Basically, a great value or better yet dollar tree brand version of “ring”. I only have this app because the townhome complex I’m in updated their doorbells to this garbage system.

Okay, this system could use some work. Some things are nice, others are a pain. Most things with the doorbell are a pain without changing some software defaults. The app as a whole has potential.

The thermostat and scheduling is a nice touch.

The key pad works well too. I like having a guest code if I ever need someone to enter.

My Gripes: the doorbell.
- it only works with a 2.4 ghz wifi band. If you have a mesh network, you can force it to split into two bands: 5.0 & 2.4 GHz.
- the recording mode should be set to “event recording” by default since navigating the video viewer isn’t great.
- if I don’t set the motion sensitivity to “low”, I get a recording often because the small tree in front of my property moves a little. Default to low or allow for me to avoid triggering when there is movement in certain parts of the frame.
- HUGE ISSUE: if the sd card ever fills, it will stop recording anything but the most recent video. The fix: you can reformat the sd card through the app which will wipe the data.

Developer Fix: please delete the oldest videos when the drive gets full, like a queue.