Smart doorbells - any thoughts or recommendations

put a Ring (2 I think) in for my mother last year but had, have, similar concerns. It was easy, she lives several hundred miles away, just needed something quick that would work.

In the US amazon seem to have carte blanche to give doorbell streams to the police and whoever they damn well please without input from the owner, in the EU i'm perhaps naively expecting local regulation protects privacy a little better, and in the UK i'm perhaps naively expecting the same regulation protects until the brexit nutters decide that's another right we little people don't deserve. Life outside the EU data protection framework comes at you pretty fast.

Frog, that's a fair point.

Mini,

Thanks for the post. I followed the link and did some thinking, deciding to stay with Ring. Mainly taht's because it was already ehre, but also because there was no clear alternative that didn't have problems. (There was a French company, but it was expensive and had to be wired in.)

As I set theRing up I refused it access to my photos and also used all the Apple privacy settings I could. Best we can do, I think - apart from not have a smartdoorbell at all.

We just installed one and I really get anxious from it. I don’t want to know what murderers are coming to my doorstep only to be thwarted by a locked door.

Something entertaining happened today though. A chap posted something through my door and noticed I had a Legend of Zelda “You Need a Boss Key to Enter Here” doormat. He looked at the camera and said “That’s fucking dope” and walked away whistling the Zelda theme tune.