Really?? Is that all? Best I can think is that the transformer doesn’t really protect the device at all, I’m guessing there was a surge at some point
Comment on Doorbell Camera / NVR (post Unifi)
moistracoon@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
While I’m not thrilled with some of my UniFi hardware, I would kill to get 4 years out of a doorbell. that’s pretty good.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 month ago moistracoon@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I’m not sure if it’s the electrician’s ineptitude (especially these cookie cutter homes, around me I have ryan and toll brothers, one time I was installing one and the wires FELL out of the door frame) or Mother Nature getting to the electronics outside or maybe a bit of both. Don’t do indoor cameras so can’t speak to that aspect.
xylol@leminal.space 1 month ago
My first doorbell from them died pretty quick two, ended up getting the poe one and its been pretty good, hopefully keeps going for a lot more. The chime sucks though. They just came out with some loud speaker that is supposed to also work with the doorbell but pretty pricey
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That’s weird. I have never had a doorbell fail. My current doorbell is a 1990’s system that goes to mini crt displays in the house. Kind of like this Image
It’s over 25 years old.
I also have several noname IP cameras around the outside and they’ve never failed. One is almost 10 years old now.
So retro. I remember a string of those mini crt/camera combos. It was pretty cool tech back in the day.