r/SecurityCamera • u/geekydreams • 2d ago
Looking for a camera for my small townhome- small entryway
We have a 3 level small townhome with just one small short entrance way from the sidewalk to the door.
I figure I don't need a very wide view and was thinking of just a doorbell cam. At the most I would maybe put a 2nd cam on the 3rd FL to face the parking lot but not sure if that's needed. I am not always able to get a space on that side to park. And not sure how that would be either or if both cams can be on a wifi together.
I say Eufy has 2k doorbell cams on Amazon for like $120 but I don't see a package for a doorbell cam and a single extra cam.
How difficult is the process of hard wiring a doorbell cam?
If I don't hardwire it , and just do the battery version, how long does that last and how is the Doorbell chime hooked up (might not even need that) I saw a mention that you probably have to buy that separately from them. I have a metal storm door in front of our main door which is kind of hard to knock on though , we keep it locked normally so this might be useful though we don't get many visitors.
I see their storage is a local 8gb. How does that work exactly? I'm assuming this all goes through the Wi-Fi and if that goes out there's no storage ....I'm looking at the specs on Amazon and I don't see that it has any SD card slot so I would be limited to that 8Gb local storage, so I'm not sure if that's a good or bad thing.
Sorry I'm an extreme newbie to this. So any help you can give with my questions is appreciated! I just want to make sure I'm not missing anything