This is kind of a sarcastic post, but I have a newer google nest video doorbell and I swear, every time someone is at the door, it would take like a full minute to load the live feed. Like, what’s even the point by then?!
Does yours pull up faster? Do I have a dud?
I’m currently pretty happy with my Ring Pro 2 doorbell and iOS-based devices as the receiving side for button pushes at my front gate. I will say that it was hardly a good experience early on though, with the same exact issue you were seeing. Rings would come late, if the person was actually still standing there, interactive conversation was often impossible.
In my case it ended up being that the Ring seemed very finicky about staying connected to specific wifi configs, particularly newer wifi if I had most legacy speeds and protocols disabled. It won’t do 5ghz fyi. I’m a network engineer by trade and have a Cisco enterprise deployment at home, so coverage outside to the Ring was not an issue, but it sure hated staying reliably connected, or initiating the connection when someone pushed it.
So, what I ended up doing was hiding a tiny little MikroTik ‘mAP lite’ in my plastic irrigation controller box near by: https://mikrotik.com/product/RBmAPL-2nD
The mAP Lite is a 2.4ghz-only access point about the size of 2/3 of a credit card, and thickness of an RJ45, literally, since it had to be thick enough to accommodate the ethernet jack. It can be powered with PoE. It supports a huge variety of modes but I’m using it in a bridging config wired to wireless. It can still have an addressable interface on the bridged ethernet network, so I retain access to configure it even though it’s in bridge mode.
My irrigation box already had extra CAT5 in it home run to my wiring closet, as I’m using one of the wires for serial control from my home automation. So, all I needed to do was terminate one of the spare cables. Now I’ve got a tiny AP about ten feet from the Ring with wifi tailored just to it. I created a unique SSID that I joined it to, stuck it on its own vlan, and firewall rule lets it reach the internet. The wifi config on the Mikrotik that I found best serves the Ring was their “2Hz-only-G” band choice, channel width of 20 MHz, frequency of 2422 MHz. I’d initially left frequency to auto but it seemed to prefer one that would only achieve -74dB RSSI, but at 2422 it’s consistently locked in at -67 dB and goes to live view instantly, and my phone gets the push notices within a second or two. So, initially sucked, after some work it’s great.
I use Eufy and it’s pretty quick.
I just ask them to go away and come back in 5 minutes.
Yes. Google nest and it pops right up on my Google home device. It will also pop up on my Alexa like 40 second later lol
The nest is slow on some days and fast on others. Several times having deliveries that need to be signed for and can’t get the driver before he’s walking to his truck
My nest will give me the notification quickly but it takes forever to load the video. Doesn’t matter if I’m on cellular or wifi. Video just loads slow.
What do you have now? I’m guessing it’s cloud based and I won’t be at all surprised by your issue. Need a local solution.
UniFi doorbell is basically instant. Stored locally, but you need hardware.
It definitely took a while for them to work out the kinks. The problems with the app were pretty terrible for a while.
My Nest pulls up in about 2 seconds.
Using Ring2, works flawlessly.
Unifi is nearly instant. Notifications are nearly instant. If you don’t want the Unifi app, which isn’t bad, then Home Assistant has integration that lets you get all the features you would typically need.
my lorex takes a while to load if i use the lorex app, so i just open blue iris, which is near instant. i also display the live feed on my tablets which are wall moumted in my house, i use this more than i’d have ever thought
This is a great question, I’ve noticed the same thing. I’ll get the alert instantly, but when I try to open it and communicate with the person at the door it takes a long ass time to load.
I mean… between my amcrest door camera, and my reolink RLC520s combined with frigate-
I have verbal notifications given before someone is at my door. I also use my door camera for triggering my porch lights at night. It works pretty good. Not instantly, but, within a few seconds. Not bad for waiting on AI to analyze the stream.
I have Arlo. It’s useless for answering someone who rang it. Even worse, 20% of the time it’ll crash all of my Arlo security cameras.
Ring camera live views seem to load pretty fast.
I have an IT and AV/Automation Company. I have personal properties using Savant, Ring, Nest, Dahua, Ubiquiti, and Doorbird. They all respond immediately and are usable.
The only time I really see latency issues has been on installs where the internet connection is weak to the device or site in general, specifically low upload speeds.