Amcrest 4MP Video Doorbell Camera Pro, Outdoor Smart Home 2.4GHz and 5GHz Wireless WiFi, Micro SD Card, AI Human Detection, IP65 Weatherproof, 2-Way Audio, 164º Wide-Angle Wi-Fi AD410

This is the third video doorbell I've installed. I started with Ring, switched to Nest, and now have gone with the AD410. Ring and Nest were pretty much equivalent, but I have Google hubs in my house, and Nest works better with those. Installation of all three doorbells was pretty easy. I will say the Amcrest had a simpler chime module than Nest. Nest required some re-routing of wires in the chime fixture, while Amcrest only attached alongside existing wires. However, the AD410 is better than either. At 4MP resolution the image is much clearer. On top of that, the colors and vibrancy is better. I attached two screen caps as examples, one from Nest and one from Amcrest. Both of these are zoom-ins to a tiny portion of the the full capture like you might do to see a license plate number to highlight the difference in image quality. The Nest image is unusable, but with the Amcrest you can clearly read the letters on the stop sign. The final big difference, and the reason I switched to the AD410, is I use Blue Iris camera software with other wired cameras in my house. I was able to figure out how to get a video feed from the Nest into Blue Iris, but it took a lot of finagling. It took a lot of research to figure this out as Google doesn't tell you how to do it. You have to grant API access to in your Google account, and this doesn't work with a GSuite GMail account like I have. However, I got it working with a secondary account. Unfortunately, once you get it working it is not great. There's a delay of something like 10-15 seconds on the feed (I guess since it goes to Google cloud before going to Blue Iris), which makes matching up video feeds from different cameras very annoying. Plus, the feed regularly cuts out (again, I assume something with Google cloud access availability). The AD410 worked just like a wired camera. Amcrest's site gives clear simple explanations of how to do it, and they worked the first time. There is no delay in the video feed at all. It is definitely a total win over the Nest or Ring cameras. My only complaint might be that the motion detection on the camera is VERY sensitive. This may be due to the better resolution. There is a slider in the app which lets you control the sensitivity, but even with it turned all the way down I get constant motion triggers on cars driving on a cross street that happens to be in the camera's view. Nest never triggered on this, probably because the street was an indistinct mush as you can see. I tried playing with the camera motion zones which reduced this, but I still get triggers for car headlights at night which light up outside the areas I had masked off. I will continue to fiddle with it. Fortunately, the camera does provide great "human" detection which is really all I need anyway.

Using exploding battery technology in a device that is made for use, in all cases, outdoors... 😞 Overview: Worked well for about five months. Not many serious complaints in that time frame other than the fact the chime never worked. Yes, I installed the chime kit, but after thinking about it for nearly ten seconds I decided it's fine because our phones ring and then I don't have three toddlers sprinting for the door every time someone pushes the button... didn't investigate further. Leave the porch light on or you will get nonstop motion notifications all night. Honestly, for me, this was just a reminder to turn the porch light on when it got dark which I leave on at night anyway. One neighborhood cat visits my doorstep several nights each week between 2am and 4am. It is incorrectly identified as a human every time, so I get that notification. Sometimes my mother-in-law's dog is identified as a human as well. To my knowledge, no other animals have been identified as human. Overall the human notifications work well, especially when people show up and knock instead of ringing the bell. The Good: Never dropped off WiFi (I do have enterprise WAPs in my home, though) Picture is pretty decent for a doorbell Works well standalone with SD card App is pretty good overall Motion and human detection individually configurable Night vision is average Three grape-jelly-fingered toddlers have managed to destroy everything in and on the house, except this doorbell The Bad: After five months the battery exploded and shorted out the doorbell. The shorted out doorbell pulled the transformer voltage down to 1.6 volts and caused it to get quite hot. The exploded battery forced the doorbell's plastic case halves apart and broke the threaded holes (circled in picture). I was able to remove the exploded battery completely and reinstall the doorbell using only four of the eight case screws. So far it appears to work normally. For about two weeks the right 1/4 of the picture was distorted by artifacts as if there was a bad connection from the image sensor to the board, or a bad or overheated image sensor. I smacked the doorbell a few times every time I walked past it (it survived dad as well as the toddlers), and power cycled it once, to no avail. Then one day the image appeared normally. Hasn't happened since. Conclusion: For me, personally, I want to give this doorbell two or three stars. I really wanted to like this doorbell. It almost lived long enough for me to start recommending/installing it for my clients. It would be four or five stars if it didn't have the exploding battery. For most people, an exploding doorbell is trash. Most people are not going to take it apart and investigate or troubleshoot the problem. I don't know what other problems I will have with it in the future due to being shorted out and now missing a battery.

Does everything as advertised well and comes with everything you need. I'm not sure how it would work in old homes, but my home is a little over a year old with all modern wiring with a simple mechanical chime. It was very easy to install. Just shut off the breaker, pulled old doorbell switch off, drilled 2 holes for the backing plate, connected the 2 wires, and was good to go. At first, I didn't install the chime kit and noticed my chime was acting sporadic. If you have a mechanical chime, you have to use the chime kit. Was really easy to pop the cover off and install it. Only gripe there was trying to find a place for the box to fit inside under the cover. My chime is very common and popular. Nothing special. They could have put a little more thought into the shape of it so it would fit easier without interfering with the chime. I got the cover to sit flush, but if you look real close, you can see where the chime kit box is pressing against it. Maybe there's a spot I missed that might have been better, but its whatever I guess. Another thing. Turn off DHCP in the settings and assign it a specific IP on your network. If it disconnects, which it will with power outages etc, you will have to go through and find its new IP and reconnect if you are using it with blue iris or a nvr. It worked well with my Amcrest NVR, but I recently outgrew the 8 camera limit on it and wanted something better so I now use it with Blue Iris on a old computer I have. Neither have had issues connecting to this, displaying live feed, recording, or 2 way talk. It is extremely sensitive to movement, but I live out in a pretty rural area so it doesn't bug me. I actually wish my other cameras were just as sensitive as this one. The picture quality is pretty good. It is nothing crazy, but it is more than enough to get the job done. I'm not one to hyper analyze the picture quality. The only thing I do wish is that the viewing angle was even wider than it already is. I know it would look like a fish bowl if it did, but I wouldn't mind being able to see more. The viewing angle is pretty wide and it does fish bowl a little, I just wish it was even more so lol. The Amcrest Smart home app is actually really nice. I use it for the doorbell specifically. I don't know why Amcrest can't just do away with their other app and just use it for all their cameras. I could never get the smart home app to work with the NVR or any of my wired IP cameras. I digress though... If you are looking for a solid and easy doorbell camera that doesn't have a subscription and that just works, get this. I have enjoyed all my amcrest products so far except the NVR. Blue Iris changed my life lol

Doorbell comes with solid technical specs; dual band wifi, 4 mp lens, micro sd slot, microusb power optional, RTSP/ONVIF support. On the software side, there is no webpage admin access as everything is done through Amcrest app. Bit confusing as there is an Amcrest Smarthome and Amcrest ViewPro app; both pick up the doorbell on a wifi scan. I started with smarthome app which seems to be a bit more user friendly in setup, needed an Amcrest account set up and then another device password, but other than that was quite easy to get going on the software side with the Amcrest app. Takes a couple seconds to get a live view and it defaults to SD resolution but even when tapping quality to HD it takes flipping it back/forth 2 times before it really shows the HD resolution; seems to be a bug. The QVR view on QNAP however defaults correctly to the HD stream and recording. Amcrest supplies basic install accessories; you can use the tilt down or the horizontal 15 degree bracket but not both together. Needed to use the included extension wiring but the fork clamps kind of get in the way of easily sliding the doorbell in place. Small nitpick in the scheme of things but would have made install smoother. Install is rather vague on how much power is needed in existing wiring, just that 16+ V will be fine. To my surprise the old mechanical doorbell chime no longer works, reading other reviews here I've now ordered a 16V 30A transformer to upgrade the 16V 10A original. For now this is not a dealbreaker since I do get notifications on my phone and there is a chime sound on the doorbell itself, although the utility of that may vary depending on where the door is as I probably wouldn't hear it on the other side of the house. The app does list Amcrest AD1 as an optional wifi chime but apparently it is discontinued for now. Will see if the upgraded transformer does the trick. To set up with QNAP QVR; the app picks up the camera on wifi scan and the default user name is "admin" and the device password you set, QVR then picks it up as an ONVIF compatible generic camera. The doorbell features don't work with QVR but works great for recording and let the Amcrest app handle the real time notifications on button press, etc. Picture quality looks good to me but likely will not catch license plates depending on your distance to street. Now we'll see if the transformer fixes the existing chime and we'll see how long it lasts outdoors. I have other older Amcrest cameras that are going on 4-5 years and one recently died. ***Update*** Yup a 16V 30A doorbell transformer did the trick to make the old mechanical chime work again

I have a bunch of Amcrest equipment and for the most part they work decently. I have 2 of the AD110 doorbell cams and when this AD410 came out I wanted it. It sounded like it had a lot of updated and improved features from its predecessor the AD110. Higher quality video, better motion detection (AI), and a better mounting system. So I purchased it to replace my front doorbell cam. At first i was excited, the false notifications had dropped down significantly which was a total plus. But to me, the image quality seems not as sharp as the AD110. It was much softer and not as crisp as the AD110. As for the night vision, it fell in line with the day image. It was pixelated and big very sharp. To me, it was supposed to be an upgrade video wise and it was not. With all that said, the worse came with its mysteriously ringing my doorbell at night. It see,Ed to happen mostly at night. It would randomly ring the single doorbell as if it was set up on my rear doorbell but it wasn’t. It would ring it hard and sometimes it would ring it very softly. It was really strange and it was creepy as heck. So that was the last draw, I removed it and sent it back for an exchange thinking i got a bad one. Received the new on and same thing. So I returned it fir a refund. Maybe It has changed since or possibly a firmware upgrade is needed. But until then I’ll stick with the AD110. On a side note, I had told a buddy about Amcrest and he purchased the AD410 and he said he loves it. He felt the video quality was better than the AD110 I told him to buy earlier that month. So maybe it has been upgraded. Good luck.

To start, I was offered one for review but my opinion will be my own and uninfluenced. I do like this doorbell. It has good clarity with light. With the app set to detect "humans" only, not just any motion, by the time the person reaches my door, I have a notification on my phone. Understand that this notification is going across my WiFi, the internet, to my cellular carrier, and then to my phone in about the time it takes someone to stroll about 20 feet. I did have a problem upon installation in that my original builder-grade doorbell's transformer was a 16V 5VA unit and it did not have enough power to service this AD410 reliably and would cease to function at some point. I bought a "wall wort" off Amazon that was 18V 500ma and the AD410 has worked fine. I will say that I haven't figured out the door chime, yet, with my mechanical doorbell. I think I'll add an electronic chime so that I can change the tones so I haven't really cared to troubleshoot the issue. Also, since my wife and I work from home, I don't want the door bell going off. I'd much rather have my phone notify us so we can control the audio. If you see the pictures, my original "button" is close to the wall. I have the included mounting angle installed being that my mounting of the AD410 is close the wall. The night time courtesy light reflects just enough light to keep the night vision (IR) off "most" of the time. Since I have motion activated lights on either side of my garage door, there is enough light to give a color night time picture. When the AD410 does happen to switch to night mode, it works fine; but, I do prefer the color. I will give an extra mention to the downward facing courtesy light. You can put this on a schedule which is a nice feature. But the thing I love about it is that I now have enough light for family to walk up to the door late at night without needing to turn on the motion activated (dim/bring) light on the ceiling of the porch. Turning this light puts too much light in the two front bedrooms. So now, I can leave it off and use the AD410's courtesy light to "light the way". Of the pictures, one shows the downward facing courtesy light. Another is at dusk where I've forced night mode on. The final picture is during waning daylight operation. I have been able to share the camera with my children and wife without issue. They simply create their own account for the app and I send them an invite to the camera. I have not used the cloud recording since I use Blue Iris locally. This camera works with my Blue Iris DVR flawlessly. A note about streaming with VLC... For some reason, VLC wants me to constantly re-enter my camera's user/pass even though they are entered correctly. I "have" been able to get VLC to stream but not reliably. Blue Iris can grab the stream without issue so I think it might be VLC. I took off 1 start for the Night Vision issue even though I prefer it to stay in color. Others may not feel as I do and I would expect that others will have the reflecting off the wall issue, too. I'd buy this AD410, again.

Based on the specs and some of the more tech-savvy reviewers, I had high hopes that this would replace my OG Nest Hello DB that bit the dust recently. After playing around with some clearly mid-to-low range options I was ready to move up to a quality product that could be recorded locally and didn't require a subscription. The product look, fit, finish, and packaging are all well done. It's a nice piece of kit, and I especially like the the 5-degree side wedge option, which would have been great for the mounting location close to the end of a brick wall. Overall installation and set up is about on par with other products in this category - not exception, but not bad. Video quality is pretty good in relatively bright, even lighting, but does not hold up well in anything less than ideal conditions. No amount of fiddling with any available setting could make this handle my shaded porch with often-bright sun in the front yard, making it very difficult if not impossible to see the face of anyone at the door. Very high video compression even at the highest streaming settings I could find, meant that most detail beyond the steps to the porch was lost. This isn't really noticeable in the mobile app, but when pics or clips are exported, or when viewed on a decent monitor using NVR software, the problem was very noticable. Night video was even worse, regardless of camera settings. Immediately after installation, the doorbell did not trigger my indoor chimes. There were zero settings in the mobile app to enable, disable, or troubleshoot this feature. It took two days of digging before I found the POST API that allowed sending commands through browser URLs to enable the indoor chime feature (NOT via a browser UI, which does not exist for this product - there's a difference, and if you don't know what this means already, this product is not for you). Even after that, with the Chime Kit properly installed, getting a doorbell ring in the house was hit-and-miss. Beyond that, generally, things were... mostly okay. Video (such as it was) was recorded and saved, and could be played back, and most of the time the doorbell rang when pressed. But in the end I could not see living with this long-term as my front doorbell and video security camera, especially for the cost. The video quality was not very good, it was hard to make out faces, the intermittent chime operation was concerning, and there were simply too many features missing from the mobile app that required using other software or obscure methods of control. Very tech-savvy people who don't mind all of that might be happy with this product, or be able to get something out of that the average consumer cannot, at least not easily. And it might be good enough, if the ONLY things you want are the doorbell and camera, and you're not looking for an efficient user interface for an ecosystem of integrated cameras and other security products. Otherwise, I'd recommend exploring some of the other options out there that are faster and easier to set up, configure, and control.

I've been experiencing some wifi issues. Have it on 5Ghz permanently and getting drop offs but not convinced it's the doorbell, more likely to be either traffic shaping by IPS, oversubscription to the wifi channel, or long shot some deauth shenanigans. Happens between 4 and 7pm primarily. These all need further investigation. Al WIFI devices can experience intermittent problems. Advantage of this camera is that it is locally recording to a microsd, so despite dropouts, all detected events continue to be recorded. For my personal use, I just want to record events over and above be notified there is someone at the door and talk to them. So despite some WIFI problems, this device meets my needs. If I wanted a rock solid doorbell camera to conduct doorbell camera interactions, I'd go POE. The motion detection is very accurate. The picture quality is very good. This is a doorbell camera and not a security camera. So the IR lights only really light up close to the door. However, I've expanded the range of the camera's night vision by pointing a 12v IR light onto the front drive. I power the camera with a 16VAC power supply rated at .6amps. It functions solidly and no drop-outs. This has been a popular doorbell camera for some time so there is an abundance of tips and tricks out there. It's solid but personally, if I was after a doorbell camera for real-time interaction, I'd go for POE. UPDATE 6 months later: I finally pinned down the cause of drop-outs. It wasn't the Amcrest as I suspected. But a somewhat obscure problem... I have repurposed an old tablet as a constant viewing screen. Turned out the power supply for the tablet was failing in some way. When I swapped it out for another one, the WIFI drop-outs ended. Crazy but goes to show you shouldn't jump to blame until you've eradicated all possible causes, even like in this case, the most obscure and unexpected. So... in all ways, this doorbell camera has proved faultless for my purposes.