eufy Wi-Fi Video Doorbell with Chime (Open Box)

This will be one glowing review, so there's a short and long version. Pick depending of your level of time/interest.Short:1) Connection time: excellent, around 1-2 seconds from the time you receive motion/bell notification to the video stream being up and live!2) Very intelligent motion "box" you can define where to trigger motion and where not3) Locally kept data(!). My biggest gripe with Ring Doorbell (more on that below). Eufy keeps your data in YOUR house. No monthly fee, no privacy hassle.4) Video Quality is excellent, better then Ring for sure, imho.All told, you will NOT regret it if you buy a Eufy.CheersAnd here’s the long narrative, if you have time.Background:After years of ever mounting frustration with Ring Doorbell over their questionable security incidents, their price policy (they charge a monthly fee for me to watch video of my "events" and yet they upload it each time to their server farm anyway, wether I pay or not [if you run FireWalla fire-wall you can proof it out and see each event triggers a 2-4 mb upload, but you don't get to see it unless you pay Ring your monthly tidings) and Ring's horrible slow connection time (I wait and wait in desperation for the app to wake up and establish the video stream, often 15-20seconds, often enough to see the UPS driver walking away by the time the stream establishes) I decided enough-is-enough and couldn't be happier with that choice. in Fact, I'm super annoyed that I waited that long!1) Connection Time:From the point of a ring or video alert, being notified on your phone by app-notification, it takes around 1-2 seconds for the app to open up and establish a life stream. Regardless if you're on Wifi at home or LTE away.One odd quirk: your audio (you talking to the person in front of your door) is muted by default. This is perhaps to avoid that you shout to your spouse "...it's the boring Miller's from next door again!..." and accidentally having them hear that. But, you need to press the little microphone unmute button which took me a few tries to get used to.2) Motion selectionI always found Ring Doorbell to sensitive, in all it’s settings (we have a street around 30feet away from front door but Ring always decided to alarm us about cars driving by) that I kept it disabled.Eufy does not do that, they have a nice motion-detection box you can manually and freely define by pulling string-dots around (in our case a bush blown by wind on right side was an issue sometimes). Removed it from the motion trigger view and all is good now. Their SW appears more intelligent to detect wanted vs. unwanted motion.3) Data retentionWonderful! You are in control of your own data, without a company by ineptitude (remember the one video door bell company misconfiguring servers by mistake and releasing customer data) or unsavory business practice (Ring releasing your data to 3rd parties whether you agree to that or not) or both - made me become a “cloud data-cutter” e.g. I am becoming more and more conscious who has my data and if it’s relevant for me enough to keep it myself.Well, Eufy lets you keep your data on YOUR premise. Wonderful.Video upload times are fine (just select videos you want to upload to your PC, phone or a cloud backup, YOUR choice, not a companies) and efficiently.4) Video qualityI was a bit apprehensive by some reviews complaining about bad picture quality.Turns out, this is NOT an issue at all! What’s going on is (imho) that Eufy smartly extracts a little thumb tag of a person’s face that is displayed below the video stream in a little round “logo”.I added a picture of a Fedex driver taking a picture after dropping off a box. If you look closely, the Eufy system “grabbed” the best possible face/position and put it as a little round sticker below the video.The only way I could see being disappointed with those that do complain about that, is that the round logo/picture is too small at occasions. But, those people that I do know being captured that way are often visible enough to make out and say “yup, that’s uncle Billy-bob dropping by”-and not having to open the video stream to look it over.That’s it. I am utterly totally happy. This is the right device for you if you have any of (or all of) my concerns about Ring or other monthly-paid-companies with forced-cloud-models.