Battery-Powered HomeKit Doorbell: A Game-Changer for Smart Home Security

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I’m excited to share this innovative video about the first battery-operated HomeKit doorbell, a must-watch for all Aqara and smart home enthusiasts! This doorbell offers seamless integration with Apple’s HomeKit ecosystem, providing features like free 7-day clip recordings and the ability to upgrade to HomeKit Secure Video for extended monitoring. What truly sets it apart is its dual power capability, allowing you to use either battery or existing wiring, and the impressive 24/7 recording to a microSD card without any extra costs—a feature that stands out from competitors.

What are your thoughts on this battery-powered HomeKit doorbell? Have you considered integrating such a system into your smart home setup? How do you currently manage your doorbell security and monitoring?

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I have had this doorbell for a year now and I absolutely love it! We do get a lot of motion in our area so we opted to wire it so we weren’t changing batteries constantly. It would be great if it had a battery you could charge with the option to buy additional batteries

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Is it possible to use both? Like to have it wired, but still have batteries inserted as a backup?

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I had one of my 2 doorbells set up this way for a while. Seemed to work fine. The only problem with the batteries is that they can leak over time and I didn’t want to ruin my new doorbell. So I went with the hard-wired option only.

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I wanted to love it, but mine ate through batteries like candy.

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I am looking to integrate the doorbell and door lock into my Apple Home system, replacing Ring. I see a mention of a 7 day cloud recording option for free but have a question or two: If someone comes to the door and I need to see who it was, am I able to both see a live view and also play back the past hour or so (or 7 days?) if I was not able to look when the notification arrived? I plan on using a MicroSD card for long term back up but most of the time we need to just play back the past day or less. Will I be able to do that with the doorbell free cloud storage easily and will using a MicroSD card cause issues with recent playback when not at home? Thanks!

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Turns out if I watch the original video above, it mentions a 6 second recording. That should be all I need I think.

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I had a problem with my wiring and decided to try a battery connection while waiting for my wiring to be repaired. The previously unused batteries that came in the G410 box lasted less than a week after with little use.

Since battery power isn’t practical, I wish that you’d offer a model without battery capability and reduce the size of the unit. While you’re at it, put stronger WiFi in the doorbell so it can connect directly to a router and get rid of the required base station with chime.

Thank you for listening.

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I just installed it and everything went pretty smoothly. I used both options: both the batteries and the wired option. For example, there is always a backup of your system if the power goes out.