Aqara - Doorbell Camera G400 (Wired)

does the unifi doorbell stuff pop up on Apple TV? we are doing a remodel and going to be adding their wifi and cameras, was considering their doorbell but wasn't sure if it did this, and we loved it with our aqara we had before

I'm with you, hardwired to a transformer and I've really liked it (only had it for three weeks). It's worked great. I thought about the Ecobee camera but when I saw it had a subscription, I decided to pass (even though I really love my Ecobee Premium thermostat).

I'd second the recommendation to wait for the G410. My Aqara wasn't particularly reliable and finally died towards the end of its first year. The replacement provided was much better, especially after I paired it only with HomeKit, but still goes offline occasionally and randomly takes a long time for the video to appear.

Although you can stick with the doorbell, I really really do recommend the new Aqaura Smart doorbell. It can be wired or battery operated, and have fallen in love with it. Reason why I mentioned this, I’ve never had a good time with Logitech products specifically made for smart home use like the Apple Smart home water detect devices that they sell. I bought a Logitech circle home view camera .. worst decision of my life since they lacked on updating the software on their end, and have made the products pretty much unusable with connection losses, happening with hours or even minutes of first time on boarding… it’s been a living, nightmare, even after having them send me out a second product of it, same issue

Same. I made my Reolink doorbell HKSV compatible via Scrypted, but the Reolink randomly croaked this week. Decided to try the G410 cause of native HKSV, but now the G400 seems like a more reliable option, even though it's a lower model? Who the heck makes a doorbell that's not fully weather resistant? I want an HKSV doorbell that works with my existing doorbell wiring that is reliable. That's it. Maybe Apple will make one eventually.

I’ve had a great experience so far with my Aqara G400. Some folks seem to have trouble with it but they generally use it powered by batteries. I’ve got it hooked up to the mains and it’s been rock solid for me.

My house was built in the 70s. I have apple tv + homepod as the homekit hub. Ecobee for thermostat, Aqara for smart camera doorbell (after trying out Ring and Eufy), Schlag for front door, Meross for garage door, a bunch of hue lights, a mix bag of light switches but slowly transition all to Lutron for reliability. As for camera itself, I still haven't found any good solutions that's reliable, I do have a bunch of Eufy that are not in my homekit. Personally, I wouldn't wait for the next best thing, because there will always be the next best thing, meanwhile I had to wait for the manufactures to catch up.

Same here. I have these on two doors that face south and bake in the afternoon sun. Bought one in July 2023 and the other last year because my Aqara kept disconnecting.

The Logitech Circle has been great for me. Have moved it to multiple houses with no problems. Wired up to my original chime easy as well. All my HomePods including my original chime ring when pressed and alerts are quick. Had the Aqara and it went completely dead on me within a few weeks.

I have 3 wireless Aqara camera & their doorbell, rarely had any issues with them. If I were starting from scratch I’d have ethernets everywhere, which may change my camera choices, but in general they’ve been pretty good.

My only gripe with the Aqara is that it’s got really poor visibility for packages. It’s been reliable and seems fairly priced.

I have it plugged into a transformer that’s plugged into the exterior outlet. My house was not wired for a doorbell for some stupid reason. I also have batteries installed for backup.

I don’t like the Aqara doorbell purely because the chime needs to be within 5m of the doorbell which is not great for my use case. Not sure why it has to be linked to the chime in that fashion

Rumour is new HomePods are coming which are more powerful for Apple Intelligence. I’d wait a while. The Aqara doorbell is pretty good.

Aqara do some good HomeKit compatible gear. Their doorbell and hubs work really well. Best to hard wire the doorbell as it’s a hungry beast and chews through the batteries. For lighting, heating and shading control I would go wired over wireless for reliability. KNX is best if you can get it, and don’t want to be locked into one of a myriad of proprietary systems out there. Good luck!

Bought one today. Tomorrow installation process. I am a little worry with some mixed reviews, hope the major bugs are already fixed and I don’t suffer with intermittent connectivity. I will get back to share impressions

So, after 5 days all good. HomeKit integration looks perfect and the notifications works perfect. My wife, who as in the household on Apple Home just start to get notifications. “Just works”

Aqara has been rock solid for me. Sometimes it is a little slow to respond when attempting to watch the feed. I blame that on all of my household all trying to view the feed at once.

It says it has rtsp streams so you could record directly to an NVR. I’m just hoping it supports onvif so I can add it to Unifi Protect

Been great. It’s not in direct sunlight for more than a hour or two a day though. But never had it overheat like the Logitech did