Wireless doorbell range

[RedGuitars]

I live downtown.  It’s only 35-35’ from my front door to a busy street, both foot and vehicle traffic. Fairly flat, straight shot. Will the doorbell pick up every car/person that goes by?

[StephenB · Accepted solution]

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@RedGuitars wrote:

Will the doorbell pick up every car/person that goes by?

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Motion detection range is spec'd at 10 feet for the wireless doorbell, but in practice vehicles can be be detected at longer range than people or animals.  You shouldn't get every vehicle/person, but you should expect quite a few vehicle recordings.

I think you will need to get low-voltage AC power to the doorbell to get acceptable battery life.  If you have a doorbell+chime installed now,  you likely already have that.

[RedGuitars]

It’s (will be) wireless only. What sort of battery life should I expect?  Thank you. 

[StephenB]

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@RedGuitars wrote:

It’s (will be) wireless only. What sort of battery life should I expect?  Thank you. 

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It depends on how much motion it picks up - no way to predict that.

[bmccle]

If you haven’t done so, my advice to you is DO NOT buy the wireless doorbell.  I have one and the lag/delay on it is so bad it’s useless.  

[jguerdat]

Lag is typically a connection issue cause by poor signal strength and/or quality. That's something the owner needs to troubleshoot since it's a local issue.

[bmccle]

That's weird.  When I installed a new Ring doorbell the lag went away.

[jguerdat]

Different hardware can certainly act differently. Without a detailed teardown it's impossible to know.