XTU J1 WiFi Video Doorbell

Do yourself a favor and get this thing! We had a first gen ring, and honestly it was fine except for having to pay monthly. So instead of continuing to pay I started out on the hunt for something that had no added costs. This is where I landed based on other reviews. The daytime picture is fantastic. Night time one is clear enough to see if something’s going on, not great but it could be that we have other lights interfering with the night vision quality. Either way, we can still see if someone comes on the property and that’s just fine. The motion detection definitely has a slight lag, not a deal breaker by any means, but it’s for sure caught the side of my face/ear about a hundred times while I’m coming and going. When we get a delivery, we can answer and use intercom, and we can go live just to see what’s up if need be. It has a micro-sd card included for storage. The app is simple to use, and alerts you of motion. We live on a busy street, and our house sits so that the ring we had constantly recorded cars driving by even set on the lowest sensitivity. This one set at low sensitivity doesn’t do that except for the rarest occasion. It seems to focus more on our driveway than the street which is awesome. Comes with a chime that you can plug in wherever, it’s nice and loud, and you can even change the tone in the app. Install took about 15 minutes including removal of old doorbell, app installation, and pairing the setup to our WiFi. Super easy. All in all, we love it!

Not an electronics wizard but want a sense of security even you can install? This is it! I’m not tech-savvy. I get tech frustrated easily. I live in a very rural area with iffy wifi service. Yet once this doorbell was fully charged (easy), it took about 20 minutes to get up and running. So far I’ve been the only one to ring the doorbell but it worked perfectly to alert me via my iPhone and the chime. It has detected and alerted me to anything that moved on my porch - me going in and out; the mail carrier twice; and my cat. The motion detection took about 15 seconds to alert. The pictures and video are clear and definitely good enough to make faces recognizable. The intercom works great with clear speech both ways. The only thing I would change would be enable it to make a distinct/unique alert/notification sound than other apps so it truly stands out. Otherwise, this has all the bells and whistles I needed for a reasonable price. UPDATE: I’ve now had this a month and a half. It is rock solid. Raucous weather has not bothered it. It has alerted me every time it needed to. The back-and-forth speaking feature works great. Video is great. And the battery is still at about 80%. Update: July 28. Just had to reacharge the batteries for the first time. They lasted six months! It took five hours for a full recharge with the provided cable. Very easy. . This has been absolutely flawless for six months! I highly recommend.

This is my fourth camera that I buy the others failed or stop working for no reason. I love this item I have had my camera on since the end of January and I have only charged it 3 times. The audio and camera quality is really good. Only wish that the motion detention is picked up sooner than the person actually getting to my door and knocking since I have a long hallway before they reach my door. The charm is loud and have different sound and volume for you to adjust to your liking. The SD card that comes with it only saves recording as you record them so if you need your recording save 24/7 definitely subscribe to a cloud package. Overall I love it is very sturdy and the installation process was quick!

Easy to set up and the video quality is excellent. Only downside is how long it takes to charge. Upon first use; it took over 6 hours to charge, and when charge is below 30% it takes aprox 8+ hours to charge. You can set a notification in the app to let you know when the battery gets to a certain percentage though; which is a nice feature. When you use the app; the battery percentage is in the viewing window, so you can see it every time someone rings the bell and you use the app to answer. We have had ours for roughly 4 months in New England weather, and have recently had to recharge it for the first time since initial charge and set-up. We dont use the motion detection feature, as I am assuming it will drain the battery faster.

UPDATE: I bought this doorbell camera in Sept 2020 and when first received and setup, it worked great. But as time went on I had more and more problems with it. The chime has never worked at all. As time went on the camera started going off line more and more and now its off line over 80% of the time. This camera works on wifi connection and even though I have various security cameras all over my property including in the area near where this camera was installed, this is the ONLY camera that is ever offline and stays off line 80% of the time if not more. I even bought a wifi extender and that did not work. I even tested it right next to the wifi router and still continues to be offline. The battery when fully charged only lasts a few days, so I constantly have to charge it and when I attempt to charge it, it doesn't charge consistently, it is off an and on when it charges, so it takes hours to charge due to this. I bought this Doorbell Camera for $60 because I did not want to spend $200 on a Ring Doorbell, but now I regret buying this product as it has been nothing but a complete waste of money. I ended up finally giving in to the price of a Ring Doorbell for $200 and wish I had done this from the start because I have had ZERO issues with the Ring Doorbell camera. Think twice before buying this product, if you do buy it, be prepared. ORIGINAL REVIEW: I just received and was excited to setup. It was super easy to setup and install. The app is great to see live view, record, or speak to anyone that rings the doorbell. There are 2 ways to know when you have a visitor. It will call your cell phone for when you are not at home and it also comes with a chime for when you are at home. Works great, I had a visitor when I was not home. It called my phone, and I was able to speak to them and let them know when I would be home. It was as clear as a phine call and I could also see them on the phone app as well! Its definitely weather proof. It was raining the day I set it up and worked great and still working great! Definitely worth getting! Another plus, it comes with a lifetime warranty, so no need to buy the additional warranty that is offered.

Works well for the most part. However, I live in a rural area at the end of a long driveway, and the only time the motion detection triggers is if someone A) gets out of their vehicle in front of the camera or B) drives directly in front of the camera (in the yard). I have the sensitivity set to high, but it rarely triggers. Camera is pointed directly at the spot where vehicles will appear. One day recently, I left, returned, a friend came and picked me up so I could pick up another vehicle, and later returned. All of these vehicles are mid-sized to large SUVs, so it's not like we're driving go-carts. The camera never triggered an alert. I looked at the description and it does say that it only triggers when it detects human movement, so maybe this is my fault for not paying better attention to detail. I do like that I can monitor the camera view from my phone anywhere. However, I once tried to use the intercom and found that there was about a significant delay between when I spoke and when it came out of the speaker, making it pretty much useless. Also, (and this is probably my biggest issue) the app and file system is very cumbersome to use. I expected to be able to download videos and/or images onto my phone or computer to archive some things, but the files are all in ???.dat" format. I tried emailing one to myself, but it came out as a .dat file as well and only 56kb. Clearly not large enough to be a quality image file, much less a video. Taking out the card and putting it in my computer results in similar issues - everything is a *.dat file - no videos or images that I can find. Maybe I'm missing something? Overall, not bad for the price, but I'm thinking of getting something else and using this to monitor a different area.

It’s been about a month since I installed this and I just charged this for the first time and it’s great! I bought this for my parents for Christmas, we used to have a door bell but it’s been dead for a while. My aunts and uncle own Ring, I looked into but I could not afford it with my budget. I think it’s absurdly to expensive, this did the same thing for a cheaper price. I hooked it up for them, the night vision works very well and I can see the motion detection when I walk up after getting in from work. The picture quality is also very good. The only thing I have noticed is that it takes a bit to be able to talk to some one. However, I am chalking it’s up to the fact that where the doorbell is placed it is far from Wi-Fi. Otherwise you will get an alert faster once someone is in range. Otherwise the doorbell ring works immediately. It’s only slow if you use the app to see who there and want to talk to them. The one other thing is that the screws are tiny as hell, when putting it in we already lost one. I wish they give you more than two. I will be contacting the company for more since they do back their products when they ask for a review. All in all this is a very good and simple setup product for a doorbell and much cheaper with just as good as reviews too. We we definitely be getting another for upstairs.

The reason I bought this after alot of researching the one that would work for me, is because someone tried to break into my apartment twice ..... and both times, I was at home. Since I live in a apartment, I want sure how or if it would work. First of all, I live on the 3rd floor and I needed something that someone like me who is not techy could understand AFTER my daughter installs it. Well, it's freaking AWESOMEballs. We have noticed that strangers see we have a camera and turn around to leave. Our delivery guys wave at us 👋 but I like how clear you can see the faces, that even though I didn't have a doorbell....I do now 😊 it notifies me on my phone if the motion sensor picks up movement..... but I will say this, my daughter did mention it was hard to install because the screws were too small and I did have to buy a longer cable to charge it because the distance from where we installed it and where the outlet is located was too far, but not a big deal. Also it charges quickly, but it's the BEST money I have spent this year on my piece of mind and my safety.