That's hardwired for power (from the doorbell transformer) not for networking, though at least it does store "up to an hour" of video offline locally. I have a cheap but totally unreliable Wyze doorbell, which also is wired in for power, but has no local storage (unlike the Wyze cams, which record to sdhc along with the cloud).
How fast is the McDonald's wifi or how slowly does one have to drive past to get a 1 hour video uploaded? Sure, it's MP4 compressed, but still 1 hour at 1Mbps is still a 3GB file.
I haven't been to MickD's in a really long time, but do they have free/open wifi with no captive portals? Seems like a big liability risk for a corp their size (or any fast food chain) to have it wide open.
I know some Arby's are semi open wifi. They do have a web client after connecting that I think authenticates you somehow. But I have no idea what it's actually doing.
"And if your Wi-Fi is spotty one day, you still won’t miss any important moments. The new Nest Doorbell will automatically record an hour’s worth of important events to its local memory."
To be fair, I feel like these things aren't real security devices. They're better rhan nothing, but highly vulnerable to any number of attacks, privacy issues, etc. These are convience devices sold to make people feel safer.
Absolutely; they are not. I didn't get one to use as a security device, in fact my requirement was probably not very typical, but; I can't hear my doorbell from my home office, and I wanted a "connected" doorbell which doesn't have to have a cloud connection so went for the AD410.
I have Home Assistant set up to flash my desk lamp and play a little tune on an ESP32 speaker under my desk when someone rings it; the video part is just an added bonus.
Besides ripping them off, a spray can might do "wonders" to the video quality. Yes, you might have a video clip of the spraying, but if a cloaked perpetrator does it …
True. A decent secure implementation, beside ditching wireless which is step 0, would imply more cameras facing each other and their surroundings, plus other areas in which the thieves don't expect to be watched and could either travel in their own cars or with the hood off.
Indeed. A doorbell camera is really not a security device, I don't have one for that purpose, nor should anyone else; I real security device needs to be out of reach and hard wired.
Nest has one now[0].
EDIT: my bad, it doesn't have a hardwired network, it just has more local memory for recordings.
0. https://www.engadget.com/googles-2nd-gen-wired-nest-doorbell...