Eufy 2k Video Doorbell Review - My Opinion After 6 Months of Usage!

Hi, I'm Mark. Today, I'm going to bring you guys a review of the Eufy 2K Smart Video Doorbell. If you are subscribed to this channel, you'll know that a couple of weeks ago I did a review of the EufyCam Pro 2, which is an outside security camera. This really is kind of like the second part of a set of videos that I'm doing about Eufy products. For the last six months, I've owned one of the EufyCam Pros 2, and I've also owned the Eufy Wireless Video Doorbell, and that's the product that I'm going to talk about in this video. If you do want to watch the Pro Cam video review, here is the link.

Eufy is a company that seems to be leading the way in a lot of the smart video stuff. The reason I think this is because they make some really good quality products, but also because they don't have a subscription model. This means that if you look at any of the competitors out there, you typically find yourself stuck to some kind of subscription for things like the out-of-home streaming and the backups of videos. Eufy don't have that. That's all included, and that's one of the things that I like about their products, because once you buy them, you've got them, and you don't have to spend any more money.

In the case of the Eufy 2K Smart Video Doorbell, it retails at about £100 (prices may change), and it comes in a choice of two different models. You can get a battery-powered model, and you can get a mains-powered model. In my opinion, the battery-powered one is the one to go for in part because you don't have to do any wiring, but also because it still has those mains terminals in the back of it. That means that if at some point in the future you got fed up with charging it and you wanted to hardwire it in, you can buy a cable to get it all hooked up to your mains. This gives you the best of both worlds.

It is, however, worth saying at the start of this video that because they don't have a subscription model, you do need the Eufy HomeBase 2 for this to work. This quite often comes in packages with a product, so you can get the doorbell and the HomeBase 2 for £150 (prices may change), or you can get the HomeBase on its own for about £100 (prices may change).

The HomeBase is the thing that your wireless cameras connect to in order to send the video for it to be stored. It's also this that you connect to when you're outside of your home via the Eufy app. That's just something to bear in mind before you purchase the Eufy 2K Smart Video Doorbell that you are going to need the HomeBase 2. I will include some links for the selection of the products, but let's start off for review and talk about the specs.

The Eufy 2K Smart Video Doorbell, as you probably guessed from the name, has a 2K built-in camera with a Sony sensor. This means that it performs really well regardless of the time of day. This means video is crisp and clear and looks pretty good when downloaded if you need to come back to it later. It has a 4:3 aspect ratio, which means that it can pick up the whole body. If someone leaves a parcel on your doorstep, you can see that as well. This gives the doorbell a really good range, especially if you want to capture everything going on in the area around your front door.

The video is transmitted securely and goes to that HomeBase 2. The Eufy 2K Smart Video Doorbell does have some built-in memory for some backups, but that HomeBase has up to 16GB of memory for storing all of your video from your Eufy devices. Of course, the doorbell connects to your HomeBase 2 via your WiFi.

Also built into the Eufy 2K Smart Video Doorbell, you find some AI features. These are particularly useful because they can detect whether it's a human or something else that's setting off the motion sensor. This means that you only get the notifications for the things that you want to know about. I've used this feature, and it's super clever and works well every time.

As you'd expect from a video doorbell, it's got built-in two-way audio. This means that you can communicate with whoever is on your doorstep if you need to tell them where to leave a parcel. This is pretty good and works reasonably well on the Eufy 2K Smart Video Doorbell.

Next, we should talk about battery life because Eufy claims that it has up to six months of battery life, and this is way more than anything that the Ring doorbells have. I've been using the Eufy 2K Smart Video Doorbell for just over six months. I'd say that it actually has less than that in terms of battery life. I found that the battery lasted about four months. Don't get me wrong. This is still super impressive compared to some of the Ring doorbells that I got that lasted less than a month.

What I will say, however, is that this largely depends on how much your doorbell is used. If you have a lot of visitors, if you pick up a lot of motion by your front door and all that kind of stuff, what you're going to find is your battery life goes down quicker. I'd say mine has had average use, and that four months is quite impressive.

The downside is that if you want to charge the battery, you need to remove your doorbell and bring it inside to plug it into a micro USB. There's a SIM removal tool that you use to remove the doorbell, and that tool also means that your doorbell is quite difficult to take if someone wanted to.

The Eufy 2K Smart Video Doorbell is also compatible with both Google Assistant and Amazon's Alexa. I haven't used it with Google Assistant, but with Amazon's Voice Assistant, you can get announcements for when someone is at your door, and if you've got a Show device, you can look at the video from your doorbell as well.

Unfortunately, at the moment, there's no native Apple HomeKit support for the Eufy 2K Smart Video Doorbell. However, if you use a Raspberry Pi and something like Homebridge, you can get it to appear in your HomeKit app. That's certainly something for more advanced users, but it is something I've tried, and it does work. There's a ton of options for tweaking and adjusting your settings in the app. I'll talk more about them later on.

Let's talk about the design of the Eufy 2K Smart Video Doorbell. The first thing I noticed, having used a ring for a while, is that the doorbell is certainly larger than some of Amazon's devices. That being said, it does have a really nice modern design, and it's completely black with rounded edges. On the front, you've got a very large, obvious button and a blue ring lights up around it when it's pressed. It comes with a mount that can have a slight angle to it. If you want to adjust the angle even more, you can get a separate mount that has a bigger angle. This means that you can adjust the position you want your doorbell to be in.

Once you've got the Eufy 2K Smart Video Doorbell all set up, which is a really easy process, it just runs from the app on its own. From using it for six months, I've found that I actually prefer it to the Ring doorbell. You might want to know, what has the experience been like?

I said I prefer this to the Ring doorbell I had before, and there's a whole variety of reasons for that. Some of the key things are just things like battery life is better, there's no subscription, and I think video quality is slightly better as well.

The other feature I really like is you can turn on the option for a thumbnail notification. This means you don't just get a notification that says it's detected motion or someone's at your door, but you get a little picture to go with it as well. If you're an Apple Watch, user that also comes through on your watch. This is really good because you can work out if you need to respond to something or not.

In terms of quality of video, the quality of video during both day and night is pretty good. It picks up the motion when you need it to, and video gets stored for a reasonable amount of time. At the moment, I've got about three months worth of video stored from the Eufy 2K Smart Video Doorbell, and the HomeBase manages all of that for you. When the memory begins to get full, it removes some of the older video.

I've found that the out-of-home access option is also pretty quick. If I realize that I don't know if I remembered to shut the front door or not, I can easily just fire up the doorbell wherever I am and check if I did. I found that the audio quality is perfectly fine for communicating with people when you need to.

That brings us on to talk about some more of the features, but more specifically, the app. One of the things that I always say on this channel is that with smart home tech, the app can make or break a product. There's no point having the best smart product out there if the app is absolutely useless. Thankfully, and you'll know this if you watch my other EufyCam video, the app that Eufy has designed for the Eufy 2K Smart Video Doorbell is really good.

When you first open the app, you can see all of your Eufy products on the screen, and there's some access to some quick controls for them. With the doorbell, you can mute the motion. This is particularly useful if you just want to know about people being at your door, and you're not fussed about people just passing by who aren't ringing it. This is part of making sure you get notified for the things you want to get notified about.

It's also here where you can easily click through to see a live feed, and then you can also go into the settings and adjust those if you want to. In the settings, you can turn on things like the video quality and the audio quality. You can sort out those thumbnail notifications. You can set privacy zones as well, and you can also decide how sensitive you want the motion to be. These are all really useful for making sure you get the most out of your battery life, but also get the most out of the device for yourself, allowing you to cover the key things that you want to do with the Eufy 2K Smart Video Doorbell.

It's also worth saying that if you do go for the snooze features, video still gets recorded. You just don't get a notification about it. It's also in the settings that you can check how long your battery life has lasted and what the current status is. When the battery of the Eufy 2K Smart Video Doorbell gets low, you will get a notification encouraging you to charge it.

There's also a whole other load of settings here that I won't go into, but there are more than enough settings for kind of any setup that you want. In the app, there's the Events tab, and this allows you to view events from your devices. This collates all your devices together, but it easily allows you to go back and see what you need to see. For example, if one of your neighbors was to say there was a disturbance three nights ago, you could easily go back and look for any footage your Eufy 2K Smart Video Doorbell camera might have picked up. Once you've got this footage open, you can easily download it to your device or send it to yourself. You can even share it with other people if you need to.

All in all, the app is really well thought out and works really well, and that brings us on to the end of this review where I say, what's the verdict on the Eufy 2K Smart Video Doorbell? If you haven't guessed it from this video, I think this is an absolutely brilliant product and certainly one of the best video doorbells on the market. One of the things I'd like to see in the future is support for HomeKit, which they have added to some of their cameras, but that's probably me being a little bit picky. If we've learned anything from Eufy and the outside cameras, however, this is something they can push via a software update.

If I was going to make one other minor criticism, I'd say that having to take the whole doorbell down rather than just being able to have a removable battery is a little bit of a pain for charging. However, when you're talking about charging this a maximum of maybe four times a year that's not really the end of the world.

All in all, this is a great product that looks good, takes really good quality video, and does everything you could want it to do. Little things like the option to announce rings through things like Amazon devices also mean you don't have to worry about having a chime. Of course, if you're happy with just the notifications coming through to your phone or your watch, you don't need a chime anyway. That being said, Eufy UNCLEAR chimes.

I hope you guys found this video helpful. As with kind of most of the tech on this channel, unless I tell you otherwise, this is something I purchased myself for my own use. I have put some links below if you want to pick this up through Eufy's website or through Amazon, and they are affiliate links. It means that I get a small portion of anything that you buy.

If you do purchase something through the link, that's really helpful and thank you because that helps keep this channel going and helps me make videos like this for you guys. With Black Friday coming up, it's worth keeping a lookout on Amazon because some of the deals on Eufy devices are already kicking off, and there's some really good prices out there. Hope you guys have found this video helpful, and I'll see you guys again soon.