Reasonable solution but software can be improved
Good relatively inexpensive solution considering it does not need servers or subscriptions. The adjustable flood light a nice touch. The viewing (wide) angle & monitoring perimeter setting could have been better but still works for me (I have installed a camera at each corner). There must be a reason for the lack of face recognition (available on the indoor camera) but it would have been a nice to have.
I noticed that not all event are captured and some video clips are slightly truncated (I cannot figure out why although it is fairly rare to have an event not recorded).

Good produc
I recommend this – it is easy to use. Pictures much clearer than my previous camera of the same pixels. Night light on motion detection is really good, bright but not overly so – useful when coming home. Ability to save images without subscription is a bonus.

Not cheap but subscription free
We already had a couple of Netatmo cameras and the app. This is a handy way to expand an existing system and fairly easy to fit. Picture quality is good, fairly wide field of view. Not bad at night either. But there can be a bit of a delay between someone pressing the bell and getting a phone alert (indoor chime works as before). Although the installation said min 8v transformer, which I had, it spent half its time in power saving mode which does not have motion detection. I was informed my 8v 0.5A transformer was insufficient so I swapped it for a multi voltage one. At 8v 1.0A it wasn’t enough, but at 12V 1.0A it’s fine and never enters power saving. The chime seems fine at the increased voltage.

This gives me peace of mind, because it works.
This camera has great night vision, motion detection & the picture quality is excellent. I now know more about the wild life & have peace of mind.

Tricky to set up but brilliant in use
Firstly, I’d recommend temporarily wiring the camera so you can set it up indoors, on a convenient desk, and near a Wi-Fi router that uses different SSID for 2.4 and 5 ghz signals (Netatmo only works on 2.4). Temporarily suppress other Wifi repeaters around the house. When running the setup from you phone app remember to use that same 2.4 SSID.
Once you get it working then install it where it’s needed. Obviously this needs to be in range of a Wi-Fi signal!
Secondly, most of the problems I’ve experienced have involved the SD card. Get good ones and reformat them regularly

Clever detection and no subscriptio
I found the camera connected to my BT internet with no difficulty. Pictures are good although a little yellow on my phone. Very good at identifying and marking separately the humans, the animals, and the vehicles that it sees. It recorded clips of deer, foxes and a hedgehog, correctly marking them all as animals. I have set it up so that it only alerts me when a human comes into the detection zone, but records animals at night as well. So I can see the wildlife without being annoyed by false alerts. Many recording options, none of which need a subscription, unless your Dropbox useage already pushes you into the subscription area.

Best porch light/video doorbell available
It’s not designed as a porch light or video doorbell but it pretty much does the same job and better than the alternatives. The motion detection is superb, you can set it to notify you if it sees people, cars, animals, or general motion, but you can also set those things individually to off. It will still record them but not bother you with a notification. It’s super easy to share recordings to your photoroll, and the integration with Homekit is very good too.

The floodlight is dimmable and can be set to only operate in the dark when motion is detected, which makes it a reliable porch light. The camera records in IR at night so it doesn’t matter how bright you have the light set. Smart lights on Homekit have slightly dodgy geo-location detection so the Phillips Hue porch light I replaced with this did not always work when I came home. This works 100%, plus it notifies me on my Apple Watch almost the exact second it sees me approaching the house.

A feature I wasn’t expecting was a built in microphone, so it records audio too. It has a pretty good field of view and was easy enough to install. It would’ve been nice if Netatmo had included a cut-out in the plastic cover for running surface mounted power to it neatly, but I managed to drill and saw my own for a neat finish. It’s tough plastic though.

I went fo this rather than their video doorbell because it is cheaper, easier to install (no bell wire or chime required) and includes a light. If Netatmo were smart, they’d work out that pairing a wifi bell-push with this item would make a better video doorbell/porch light solution than their existing video doorbell and a separate porch light.

It has local storage for recordings, so even if your internet is out of action it will still record. A power cut is its only vulnerability.

Works well
Relatively easy to set up, only needs power and WiFi
It’s working and doing what I want. Records when motion detected – But includes a few seconds before the sensor triggered.
Peace of mind achieved.

Well built, fully featured, HomeKit compatible
I spent a long time researching various different options and chose this because it integrates with my other Netatmo products, is HomeKit compatible and fully featured. Not cheap, but well built. I paired it with a transformer and a Honeywell Wireless chime module. Installation was aided as ever by watching some practical videos on YouTube. I love that it rings through on my chime, phone and HomePod. Works well so far. My only observation is that it needs a ‘long press’ to make the connection with the chime

Best Video Doorbell Available but Needs Some Improveme
I was bought this doorbell for Christmas by the other half after talking about it for about a year after it was unveiled.

I didn’t have a doorbell at all prior to this so was starting from scratch. I bought a chime with built in transformer listed as compatible on the Netatmo support page and connected this to a standard plug which is plugged into a socket.
I then ran the cable from the chime to the doorbell.

Set up was painful as the doorbell was refusing to connect however after 5 hours of trying it eventually worked. No idea what made it work. It just did.

Once working it stopped after 15 minutes. I followed the instructions and reset it and went through the rigmarole of it refusing to connect again (I disabled all but the main 2.4ghz network but this made no difference). Eventually Netatmo support told me to connect it using USB and try to set it up whilst powered through USB which worked!

Then after 15 minutes it stopped working again! Different issues each time. On one occasion it was that it worked through the Home app but not in the Netatmo app and was not recording. The next time it was nothing working.

I went back to Netatmo support and they remotely restarted it and hey presto – it’s working fine.

So onto the verdict:

I have a Netatmo presence which detects and differentiates between people, vehicles and animals and records and detects from incredible distances which is amazing!

The doorbell however only detects and records people and they have to be very close to the camera to detect them (it won’t detect or record people walking past on the street) so it’s certainly no substitute for a CCTV camera.

The quality of the actual doorbell is very good however video quality leaves a lot to be desired. Compared to other doorbells and even Netatmo’s own other products the quality is poor. The field of view vertically is very good. It shows the very narrow lip on the roof above and the floor below however horizontally the field of view is pretty poor. I’m consistently only getting a view of the shoulders of people at the door.

I’ve got it linked up to HomeKit so my HomePods chime when someone rings the doorbell and when it detects motion the lights at the front of the house go on.

You could easily power the doorbell using a usb cable and then it will wirelessly chime on HomePods and phones negating the need for a chime.

I’ve also got a network hard drive which I am using to back up CCTV to through WI-FI which saves each motion detection (including a period after) as an MP4 video as well as on the micro SD card on the doorbell which saves the video encrypted and can only be accessed through the Netatmo security app. There is however no pre-record and the motion detection is quite slow so it generally started recording a few seconds after someone approaches the door.

Overall. The doorbell is by no means perfect however the lack of subscription fee unlike other video doorbells, the ability to back up to an FTP server and the HomeKit compatibility (as well as the promised HomeKit secure video compatibility) mean the positives of this outweigh the negatives and I would say this is the best Video Doorbell available today.

Can be better via software upgrades
+ no monthly fee, stylish, HomeKit compatible
– video quality is average, it’s like they push heavy compression on the sensor
– always start recording late, I only see the person back leaving most of the time ( that’s really frustrating )

Excellent motion detection, day or nigh
I’ve been using this for a few weeks now. It picks up movement, correctly distinguishing between vehicles, animals and people. The only time I get false alerts is when there is dappled sunlight on the side of the car – it thinks it is a person or animal. Links nicely to my Dropbox folder to save the images.

Not that straightforward to install, but works nicely when you do get it sorted
Ok, so I’ve got several other Netatmo cameras and currently use them with iOS devices, so not commenting from an android perspective. Waited months for this doorbell to come to market and tentatively ordered within a week of it coming out. I was worried as like most new products I was expecting issues. Which I got.

I’m only going to talk about my chime setup, so yours may vary – there are so many different combos. Mine was an 8v 1A transformer which according to Netatmo should have been enough power, but it wasn’t. I ended up having to buy a 12v 2A transformer and that did the trick. Next was getting the Netatmo power regulator wired in correctly. My chime set up wasn’t described in their web site, so after hours of trial and error I had to get in touch with their support.

Now this is where I’ve got my biggest gripe, took about a week for them to respond, after I’d sent though the request and photos of my setup. This is no way to run a support business. That said, the details they provided confirmed how to setup the power regulator and to do a full reset. Any wiring changes mean you have to fully reset via usb power and the reset button. I ended up having to reset twice before the HomeKit setup finally worked. This was really frustrating as it kept failing. However once setup, their app and HomeKit work well together with each bringing their own config/settings/options. There’s absolutely no lag when talking with people and the notifications to your devices are within 1-2 seconds of the bell being pushed. Picture quality in day and night is excellent.

Like all Netatmo products, their wifi signal strength is abysmal and the doorbell is no different. So make sure you’ve got good wifi strength. My phone showed 4 bars and the bell only shows two. If you’re running wifi that has 2.4 and 5Ghz on the same SSID, I’d highly recommend you create a second SSID purely for the bell (or other Netatmo products) as it will help with the setup. Why in this day and age they can’t support 5Ghz is beyond me.

One thing I’ll say about Netatmo products is that they do keep their firmware updated regularly and this one will be no exception with some additional features coming soon.

I do like the no subscription premise that Netatmo have. I can testify that their cameras do work as we got burgled, handed over the footage to the police and it helped to convict the burglar.

I really struggled on giving this a 3 or 4 star, but plumped for 4 as their support did get me sorted out, eventually, and once setup, it does work very well.

Issue with Billion Router (Solved)
Managed to get camera working, through Apple Home kit, with no issues. However to setup detection zones etc, you need to use Netatmo App / Web Interface – these always reported “Camera not connected”, you recieve motion alerts etc, and thumb nails in the Netatmo App, but no video. You can see Live video via Home Kit. After much googling etc, found that if using a Billion Router you need to changes: Nat Settings: NAT >> ALG >> IPsec (disable this). After Rebooting router, live video works in the Netatmo App. So what was going to be a 2 star review, I’ll not give it 4 stars for now…

A great security camera
Designed to replace an existing security flood light.

Has no monthly or annual subscription requirement. You can store via Dropbox for free.

Can detect and distinguish between people, animals and cars. It is good fun seeing what wildlife visitors you have overnight. We have foxes and badgers!

They also feature a built in SD card, so if your Wi-Fi drops, they continue to record and will then back up as soon as Wi-Fi reinstates.

Have two of these, one front and one back.

Only mini criticisms are the lack of programmable schedule and, or geo-location use (e.g turn camera on when you leave property).

These cameras require 2.4ghz Wi-Fi frequency, so when installing (or reconnecting) and therefore you may need to temporarily disable any 5ghz frequency from your Wi-Fi. This can be done easily via your router admin settings.

Great security camera/light with wide choice of settings
We installed the Netatmo camera/light to protect the back of our house and were relieved to find that it managed to pick up the wifi signal as it’s about 40 metres from the hub in the living room. It’s quite unobtrusive and worked well for the first few days but completely stopped working following heavy rain. We found that water had entered the casing and contacted the seller. They immediately sent a replacement which has worked well for the past few months, surviving many downpours since then! I particularly like the choice of motion settings which I can set to alert me to cars, people, animals or “other motions” (birds, leaves blowing around, etc.) Good product, very easy to control via the app and great service!

Good
Good quality product also has sound very reliable providing you internet connection is good

Great camera, only few additional costs!
I’ve had 2 of these cameras, front and rear of house, for 2 and a half years, they are very solid, and heavy. I’ve had a few of issues/frustrations in that time but would re-purchase if they went kaput completely, even with my 4* review, as I’ll discuss. Frustrations have mainly been due to wifi – not the fault of the cameras. Aside from wifi, the problem I had with my front camera (it stopped recording) turned out to be the memory card giving up. This took a little while to work out – turning on off on off etc, troubleshooting over the net. The card was 8GB when I removed it (easily done) – it had become defective due to use. I live on a busy street. I bought a 32GB card, applied the recommended super lube (tracked down in the states) and refitted, it worked again immediately.

I think I’m on to my 3rd 32GB card for this busy camera – I don’t find that an issue – it’s still cheaper than being bound to a monthly cost. I don’t need to link with Dropbox (free version) to store video like I did initially. The 32GB card easily stores a week’s worth of video for me to scroll through on the App. I deleted Dropbox. This front camera is reliable due to a strong my wifi signal, and beside the main router. I have captured all sorts outside, video of my car being ransacked, my security light making someone think twice from trying my car door handle, someone taking a pee at my front door (unbelievable I know), these incidents being at night and difficult to identify people due to the hoody uniforms and grainy picture quality – you only really get an idea of what is going on with the night vision, a policeman told me you would need to spend 1000s to get decent night vision. I’m sure some night video content is not captured, and sometimes there is lag, so a video does not fully capture a person’s journey in/out of shot. To be fair, these are instances outside of my garden, but has been frustrating at times, e.g. camera might capture someone get out of a car on the street, but does not capture them later when leaving. In daylight I captured someone pinching a child car seat that I’d left at my front door to dry in the sun after washing. I took a screenshot of the person (great daytime quality when people are close to camera) and went door-to-door with a pic to find the person as the police were not helpful. I found the culprit and got my seat back.

My rear camera is hit and miss due to my wifi. I installed additional boosters for wifi but these are still hit and miss at the rear of my property. I do have spells of wondering what I’m missing, sometimes I’ll get motion updates, sometimes not. Most frustrating when I have walked in front of the camera and there is nothing captured, or a week without an update. This is not the fault of the camera – I have Virgin Broadband for info, 2x boosters are Belkin. I have had to re-scan the system’s barcode for this camera the most to re-link it to the internet, not ideal going up a ladder. I still use the 8GB memory card in this camera, I have had zero problems with that card – although it is not kept too busy, even when things appear to be fully working. Most frustrating with this rear camera and the wifi problem is that my live stream is generally most likely not working – my front camera is however very reliable for live streaming. I have noticed the rear camera functions better when the kids are not using Netflix etc. So ultimately the camera can’t be blamed for another providers hit and miss wifi signals!

Camera install is easy, I don’t do anything electrical, can’t change a plug for instance, yet installing the cameras was easy – I just followed the YouTube video, I am a confident DIYer though. I already have other fllodlights so I keep the floodlight feature turned off on my cameras so can’t comment on that. The sound feature is good – my driveway is 12 metres and you can just make out bits of conversation if cars are not driving past at the same time, in the immediate area of the camera the sound is perfect, and has been very useful. The App is great, I have the cameras set to pick up people, rather than cars/animals/motion, just to save video space. I find myself scrolling through the App across the day, easy to use, and this has improved over time also with updates. Best of all there are no monthly fees, I’d purchase again.

In a world of similar devices this is a leader - IMHO
This device got good reviews so we gave it a shot, so glad we did. Everything works well out of the box and the link to Dropbox (for free!!) is great.

Great camera that’s not over sensitive
We have two Hive cameras (indoor and outdoor) and they useless compared to this Netatmo camera.

The motion sensitively is spot on and hasn’t given us any false alerts. Having onboard storage is a great idea although the security of the SD card is a slight concern. The LED light is very bright but can be adjusted if required.

The field of view could be slightly better as could the initial video quality. Not having two-way audio is a downside but not a deal breaker.