wiring for doorbell

Hi all,

We'd like to install a smart doorbell (the google one) but I'm just trying to get my head around how this would be connected up- we'd want the wired one.

I've attached a picture of the frontage of our house. The consumer unit is in the garage. There is obviously power supply to the floodlight camera by the door just above the house sign (I intend on fitting a normal outdoor light in place of this).

We'd want all of the wiring hidden, and ideally the doorbell would be fixed to the brickwork just to the right of the door and thus the wiring somehow fed into the cavity? I appreciate that a transformer would be required.

Any tips? It might be one I get an electrician in for, especially if it involves anything to do with the consumer unit but a steer would be good as to what can be done....

Thanks

IMO, you can get a google battery powered one that won't require any wiring and hassle.
If you really want a mains powered one, you can get rid of that dusty floodlight and install the smart camera with the old wiring that was connected to the old floodlight.
Battery operated floodlights are available and can be better sometimes.

jurassic sparkk said:

IMO, you can get a google battery powered one that won't require any wiring and hassle.
If you really want a mains powered one, you can get rid of that dusty floodlight and install the smart camera with the old wiring that was connected to the old floodlight.
Battery operated floodlights are available and can be better sometimes.

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Thanks. I have considered the battery powered ones but hardwired would definitely be our preferred option.

The current floodlight is a smart floodlight camera. We'd now just rather have a doorbell camera. I was wondering if there was some way of using this wiring. We would still want some form of light there to replace the floodlight camera but whether we can spur (?) off and power both, albeit not sure how that would work with the transformer I would require.

The ring bell kit has a pack which includes the appropriate transformer.

Recommend you buy this kit rather than faffing around and buying a transformer etc that might not work

It's the google doorbell that we'd be installing. Can I not use the existing outdoor light supply, split this so it still supplies an outdoor light, with a second cable going into an appropriate transformer (which I presume I need to site so I can access it?) and then this supplies the doorbell?