Anyone recommend camera system for home? I have a ring doorbell and wondering if I should replace it before I add cameras. I would rather not pay a subscription fee per month and just auto back up to the cloud. But not sure what system is easy to install.

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I have a ring doorbell and two ring flood light cameras at each of my three houses (2 of them airbnbs). They’ve worked great, Best Buy installed everything, and app is easy to use.

I am pretty capable and technical. I looked into getting my own NAS and or cloud backup solution as I hated the idea of paying a subscription fee.

When I looked at everything, I decided it was a lot easier to just pay the fee. Handling your own stuff requires a lot of setup time and equipment, and also HDDs fail and need to replaced after some years of use especially if always used like for 24/7 recording.

I used to have Eufy, their cameras have great res. The company has had some security or privacy issues I guess. And since I work with Amazon I was able to sign up for something that got me a free ring sub. I was previously paying for Eufy sub, so with ring I feel like the free sub is kind of paying off the new cameras I had to go buy.

Once I got everything set up, I like the Ring software and app a lot better than Eufy. Seems more reasonable and responsive, I self installed everything and it’s working great.

Whatever you do, put all your smart home devices (except video streaming ones) on a dedicated 2.4ghz WiFi network. Will get better performance and since range is better, improved battery life for non plugged in ring cams.

Very helpful. Thank you!!!

The husband just got eufy and loves it because of it 360 cameras and it’s not like the other systems

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