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

App is great, works well, and gets the job done. However, my grip is with the direction of the company and their overall products, particularly their video door stations which many of us utilize. DON'T be FOOLED by the nice, shiny, and esthetically pleasing designs!!! What is under the hood and inside technology QC is what counts, which has been going downhill ever since 2022 with the release of the new product line that is suppose to be better than the DS10XX series but is ABSOLUTELY NOT !!!

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 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

What's new

• Configuration to execute actions at specified times (example: open your gate every morning at 8:00)
• Possibility to turn off the IR LED by pressing the button again (requires at least firmware 135)
• Extended configuration for SIP (requires at least firmware 135)
• Improvements of device detection in local network
• Support for new hardware modules
• Minor bug fixes and improvements
• Fix for playing notification sounds