UBell +4

This does interface with the doorbell however it’s almost impossible to review the recordings unless you’ve got a couple hours to find the exact spot. Then there’s no way to schedule the PIR (motion detection). The low sensitivity setting of the PIR sensor is still too sensitive for any type of Urban environment. The most annoying thing is you can’t change the tone that it uses which it “ding dongs” 5 or 6 times just for motion detection. You can’t expect people that actually have jobs during the day to have this feature installed as it would be entirely too disruptive. It only pushes a notification not any type of image preview to the phone and there’s no option to do this.

When I first downloaded the app and started using it you could rewind on the live recording screen and now you can’t. Which is annoying because I’ve had instances where I needed more than the 8sec clip given to me. I hope that gets fixed. The quality however is not awful. It could definitely be better but it gets the job done. Also I’ve had people drop off packages and never got it on PIR. But when the wind blows too hard it catches that. It’s super sensitive but also not sensitive enough in some instances. If it wasn’t free I would 100% return it.

I think the app has potential. However, it will need to be updated to do the followings:

1. Service connection must be fast enough so users can view the moving objects which triggered the notification.
2. Recording doesn’t always work since sometimes I went back and it didn’t have anything on the cloud. I would imagine for every activity notification I should get a video clip or snapshot to go with it. If not, the app shouldn’t send that notification. I think a good solution for this would be to have a the doorbell wake up and start recording and if the movement persists for more then 10, 15 secs, then send a notification with a video clip. This will filter out a lot of unnecessary alerts.
3. The app should allow for targeting motion detection for a specific zone at a specific range so it wouldn’t go off all time. I have a little tree in front of my house and each time the wind blows through which caused the tree to move, a notification is sent to me.
4. The app should only send the notification if it detect a person or animal movement only.