DoorBird

Bird Home Automation

About this app

The DoorBird App provides mobile access to DoorBird IP Video Door Stations. Using the app, you can see and hear your visitors in real time, speak with them or unlock the door. When visitors press your doorbell, you receive a push notification on your smartphone or tablet and can immediately answer your door – from anywhere in the world. The DoorBird can also send instant alerts when a visitor triggers the built-in motion sensor. No matter if you are at home or not, you will never miss a visitor or a delivery.

DoorBird's innovative IP technology was developed in Germany and is continuously improved through regular app and hardware updates. The system works in your local network (LAN) as well as outside of your home network environment without range limitation and securely encrypted over the Internet.

DoorBird App Features for IP Video Door Stations:

• Live HDTV video (ultra wide-angle camera lens, night vision)
• 2-way audio communication
• Worldwide mobile access to DoorBird IP Video Door Stations
• Push notifications on your smartphone or tablet when the doorbell is pushed or the motion sensor is triggered
• Configurable motion sensor
• Free visitor history
• Secure door, garage or gate opener via the app
• Different ringtones for push notifications
• Geofencing
• App is optimized for portrait and landscape format
• WiFi and Ethernet (PoE)
• Smart Home compatible

Ratings and reviews

The app is barely functional: - Frequently dropped events (no push notification, no sound, nothing) - Even when it delivers the notification, the app uses media volume instead of notification volume. If you had your music volume turned down, you're not going to notice your doorbell Keep in mind, this is AFTER I've turned off battery optimization and allowed unrestricted background data usage for the app in Android's settings. The developer clearly doesn't know what they're doing

I don't have issues with the image during the day, but of course, that is not when things are locked. For night, there is no automatic schedule to turn on the IR cut filter. Therefore, unless you manually hit the IR illumination button when using the app, you get an awful, grainy image. If you can code in a button, how hard would it be to create an automatic schedule? It adds complexity to access control, not alleviates it. I cannot recommend this product to customers for that reason.

The app is supposed to allow visitors search for your name on the door terminal. However, you can't add your name to the directory even as a resident with a login. To do so, you need to call DoorBird, and they type tour name for you a price of $90/name. Depending on how long your name is, this comes to $10-$45 per character that they have to type. Another issue: door code works about 33% of the time. The other 67% "Action performed" message appears but nothing happens. Same code each time.

What’s new

• Support for new hardware modules
• Minor bug fixes and improvements