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Probably going for Nest as it works with Google correctly.
The Eufy looks nice as it's made by Anker and their batteries and speakers are really good but the reviews say they don't integrate completely with Google Home.
Yeah. Not going to do Amazon, even if I have Prime, but they seem really shitty on security.
Don't really want another hub to add (have Smarthings and Phillips Hue already) to the existing ones. And would look at adding another camera for the back garden entrance in the future.
The Nest one can get upgraded to mains wiring in the future when I rewire the house.
And a fiver a month for cloud storage? Not so bad I guess.
I'll see what the January sales come up with.
Mr_Sworld-
I googled all of them... and the one that surprised me the most was Arlo. Looks like a solid product.
I too would choose Nest - if you're deep into a system the benefits from sticking with it are there. The Google Home integration isn't as deep as you imagine though, yes I can view and manage things in the Home app but it pushes me back to the Nest app often enough. I'd still choose it though... I simply trust Google with software updates, and the quality of the software and I believe software defines most of the value of these things.
But... if I weren't so deeply into Google, I'd choose the Arlo.
Velocio
Coming back to this... Every video doorbell needs a subscription for the video to be hosted off-site.
Which? has Ring and Arlo as best buy.
Nest comes behind that.
Then Eufy.
The don't buys were Swann and homeguard... Both of which I'd not heard of.
I personally wouldn't touch Amazon smart home stuff. I'm not sure what Arlo is 🤷