eufy Security - Video Doorbell C30 (Battery)

I bought the Eufy C30 but couldn't get it into HA. Maybe I needed the bridge too, so I sent it back. I also have Reolink cameras so it felt good to have the same videosystem.

We got a Eufy doorbell installed, its very good as it doesn't require subscription like some of the other brands, the one we got came with a base station (as we needed one to work with other wireless cameras) and its generally been good. The ones with internal storage seems to work faster than ones which take SD cards, but the SD card options are a bit cheaper. You can also get one with dual camera (2nd one points down) if you want to keep a view of courier packages.

i have a eufy doorbell (not e340) and it works out pretty well. easy to access videos when you have home base connected

I have one and it’s been pretty decent battery life. I think where you place it and how many often it records will impact battery life. Have you considered setting up exclusion zones?

good question! I had a look and I purchased it in january 25th this year and I have charged it twice since installing it. It is not the 6months but it is a lot longer than your 2 weeks! I am not doing 24/7 recording and my driveway is not facing the road or have people walking past frequently.

The c30 doorbell camera batteries are atrocious. 2 weeks charge when they advertise 6 months

So how long does your c30 doorbell last? They advertise 6 months so my 2 weeks is pathetic

Other people have had trouble with the battery and it's not constant recording. They lie about the 6 months

Yeah but they advertised an average of 6 months. I'd be happy with 3. But 2 weeks is pathetic.

You don't have the c30 battery doorbell.

If you're connecting to a home base then the Eufy cameras don't use the SD card anyway (they record straight to the internal storage on the home base). At least that's the case with my home base 2 and C30.

I'm using the Eufy C30 (the cheapest one) it does have a micro SD card slot but that only works when you're using it stand-alone - if you have it connected to a homebase then it'll use the storage on that. Works well except battery life isn't great - I have to charge it every four weeks or so while the other Eufy cameras we have will last a couple of months between recharges (capturing a similar number of events)

Eufy C30 is wireless but nowhere near the 6 months before recharge advertising. At Best a month. There's TP LINK TAPO DOORBELL at Walmart for $45. I have one but haven't installed yet.

Eufy and TP LINK TAPO. The EUFY battery doesn't last the advertised 6 months. More like a month at Best before recharge. Don't know about TAPO but it's $45 at Walmart

I use both **Eufy** and **Tapo**, but Eufy is my preferred ecosystem. # Eufy Recommendations **Outdoors:** * **S4 Solocam** – Best overall. Triple-lens (4K + 2×2K PTZ), solar + battery, and true 24/7 if wired. Quick-swap battery is a huge plus (will outlive any camera with a built-in batter as long as other hardware lasts). * **E42 Solocam PTZ** – 4K PTZ without the extras. Solar + battery + optional wired 24/7. * **S3 Pro** – Great night vision, no PTZ, requires HomeBase, built-in solar, supports wired 24/7. * **E30 Solocam** – 2K budget version of the E42. *(Eufy model numbers repeat—“Solocam” vs. “Floodlight Cam” vs. “Indoor Cam” matters more.)* **Indoors:** Only battery options without built-in solar are **S210 (2C)** which is 1080p and **S220 (2C Pro)** which is 2K. **Doorbells:** * **E340** – Best overall (dual cams + package detection). Can be finicky but still my pick. * **C31** – Battery + wired + 24/7 but no package detection. * **C30** – Skip due to sealed battery. * New dual-cam likely next year, maybe wait if you can. **Get a 3-year warranty** (Amazon/B&H). **Eufy Pros:** Works exceptionally well, when it works. Great hardware, well-designed, durable, strong community. **Eufy Cons:** Firmware hiccups, spotty support, QC issues, weak smart-home integration, AI is hit-or-miss. # Tapo Good cameras but mostly **wired**. Only one 4K battery/solar cam. Snapshot mode when idle. New base station supports large 2.5" drives. **Pros:** Best integrations (Alexa/Google/SmartThings), deep settings (resolution + FPS, UPnP), great automation. **Cons:** Support is worse than Eufy, random connection issues, some cams feel cheap. **Overall:** **Eufy** = best hardware + battery/solar options. **Tapo** = best smart-home integration + automation. \*\*\*summarized using AI. I type a lot :) Good Luck!

I have had extremely mixed experiences and I think part of the problem is in vast differences in stability between models. It certainly seems like each device is made by a completely different manufacturer sometimes. I have had these experiences in this order: 1. A pair of 4G LTE Camera S330 cameras. They were virtually impossible to get working and even harder to get onto their sim cards. One eventually simply did not work and had to be returned for the same thing which did work. Why? I don't know. Firmware instability? Roll of the dice? Who knows. It wasn't hardware but they just refused to authenticate with the app. Now they are set up, they work alright most of the time and are still one of the only solar, standalone, sim cameras. 2. I bought a big pack for another home which (mercifully) did have wifi access. \- 1 x Homebase. \- 2 x outdoor solar cameras. Worked out of the box, unbelievably solid, reliable and good. They also have USB-C implying they were made/designed more recently than if they had micro usb. \- 1 x indoor wall plug camera. Has micro usb and is noticeably less reliable than the other ones in connecting, staying online etc. Still works almost all the time, no complains. \- 2 x Door sensors. No complains. Almost all of it works almost all the time and no issues whatsoever. All round excellent experience which repaired my initial experience and prompted me to buy some doorbells. \- 2 x C30 Doorbell. One was tricky to get worked in the connection but after a couple of resets it worked. The other worked out of the box to set up. Neither one worked fully though. No live view (P2P failure error) and lot's of down time. Doorbell to phone call worked once and never again. EXTREMELY unreliable in when it would or would not work and after 3 very long support sessions following the generic work, it's clear there is some weird software or firmware issue. No matter what was changed (reset, firmware updates, wifi tweaks, setting tweaks and I even used the beta application of theirs through testflight). These were USB-C too so modern hardware. I took them back to the store and replaced them with the same thing and exactly the same issues identically. I returned them. \- And replaced them with the wireless 2k dual camera which has a micro usb plug implying it's older and out of the box no issues and has worked ever since with zero problems. NFI what is with the differences. It's been extremely frustrating but I'm glad it works now and it's just so strange how perfect, smooth and excellent some of their offerings are with others being absolutely bonkers.

\+1 for the Eufy, I've had mine for years and it's never failed me. The ONLY issue I've had with it is since updating the home base it gets announced as "Someone pressed the A750294BNH063490" for some reason instead of saying "front door" :-)

Reolink, hands down. No subscription fee, well supported and comes in POE, WiFi (powered) or WiFi (battery) versions. Also, has platinum home assistant integration if you're a nerd. I love mine. Have had it 2 years. Video quality is also brilliant. Had a Eufy battery WiFi doorbell before that and I found it awful. The wired versions of the doorbell (WiFi and POE) have pre-record so will show you footage before an event acually happens. No battery doorbells have this feature as it would kill the battery

I found the video quality from the doorbell to be quite poor. I bought the very first Eufy doorbell that came out so it's possible that there's a better one on the market now. I was impressed by the connection time from the app to the doorbell video stream though. It was far quicker than any other doorbell I've seen from ring, reolink etc.

I have 4 Eufy cameras, mostly bought before the troubles a few years ago, though one in the last year. My ca. 2021 doorbell had the lens fall off right before the end of the warranty. Eufy sent out a replacement promptly. I have specifically chosen not to put any of their cameras inside my home but have not removed their cameras from my exterior (and as stated above, have added an additional). Their app is perfectly fine, save for the occasional annoying popup or overlay to buy more cameras. Their security concerns and lies don't make the cameras any worse or better than any given Wifi Camera made in China and storing/processing videos in the cloud, but they do make them liars. I have enough belief that my stuff is primarily local to the Homebase but I never can be (and never was) perfectly sure.