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Google Nest doorbell
I thought this would be an easy upgrade to an existing mains-powered doorbell—I was wrong.
The doorbell camera footage from over the road helped get my attempted burglars a 12 month prison sentence—hopefully mine will be a deterrent to similar opportunistic crowbar attempts.
aglet
I have had a Ring and replaced it with the Google Nest equivalent.
I use it as I have an office in the garden, so it is handy for me to be able to hear the door bell in my office (it rings on my google home) and if I am feeling really lazy just speak to the person at the door through the doorbell if it is a delivery etc.
Only reason I switched from Ring to Nest was the fact that I use google products elsewhere in the house and unsurprisingly Ring and Google do not play nicely together.
Only thing I would flag is that there is a lag between someone pressing the bell and you being able to talk to them, which comes down to speed of the app plus the speed of your internet, the lag for me is about 10 secs which is within the amount of time that I think is acceptable, but much more would get annoying I think.
Google nest has face recognition built in, Ring didn't when I had it, but not sure if they have introduced it now. I thought that might be a handy feature if it meant you could tell it not to notify me if I walk through the door, but I have yet to work out how to make it do this, so it is mainly a gimmick that means my google home announces who is at the door when someone presses the bell.