Door Bell camera without subscription

[SandyLyon]

I’ve just ditched my Ring Doorbell, as well as the £50 / year subscription, with them being WiFi, the signal can be blocked.
I already had Hikvision CCTV system installed so I’ve added a Hikvision Video Doorbell to the DVR, it does all that the Ring Doorbell did plus it records onto the HDD 24/7 and is hardwired so it’s immune to WiFi blockers.
If you are looking for a standalone video doorbell I would suggest something with local storage (SD card) in case of WiFi interference.

 

[SithLordHood]

What Hikvision doorbell did you go for? I am looking at the new DS-KV6114-WBE1 4MP unit.

 

[SandyLyon]

What Hikvision doorbell did you go for? I am looking at the new DS-KV6114-WBE1 4MP unit.

I used the the predecessor of the one that you are looking at, DS-KV6113-WPE1(C) it’s a 2MP camera. It’s connected to my DVR with Cat6 cable via a PoE switch.

Reason being I wanted to run an internal chime off it as well as notifications via Hik-Connect and this particular model has an option in settings to change the output to “Mechanical Doorbell”, most of the others didn’t have that feature.
I did this by connecting the N/O and Common wires on the video doorbell to a mains powered Byron 776 chime.

Not sure if this feature is available on the KV6114.