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My Amcrest AD410 doorbell encodes 2K (2560x1920) video at 15fps 24/7, and my previous Nest camera did 1600x1200 at 30fps 24/7. I guess it is more a limitation of their specific product than of the category in general.

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I'm curious about your setup. I've got a Nest doorbell camera and would love to stop sending my video to Google. Do you get notified when there's someone outside your door? Or a notification that someone rang your bell? What app do you use on your phone? What about intercom functionality, is there a way to replicate that?

I have it set up with the Amcrest app, so I still get notifications, I can do two-way audio, etc. The motion / person detection is happening on-device, as it is not sending a stream to Amcrest. I don’t subscribe to their cloud storage plan, but I do have a micro SD card in the device, so it stores clips of detected motion and people that play back in the app as if I did. The feed to my NVR is secondary to all of that.

Their app is not as polished as the Nest app, but it is sufficient. From what I understand though, after Nest moved everything under Google, their app isn’t as good anymore either.

As resolution goes up, frame rate goes down. Most IP cams let you choose where on the resolution vs fps divide you want to be.

2k is 2048 × 1080

You’re right, I was going based on their description. It’s actually higher than 2K.

https://amcrest.com/4mp-wifi-camera-doorbell-ad410.html

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