Ubiquiti - G4 Doorbell

My older G4 (non-pro) doorbells have worked fine for years, until one just died in September. I quickly picked up a G4 Pro POE as I'm going to wire Ethernet 20 feet to my door, but I haven't installed it yet as the Pro is total overkill for my use. I don't need a separate package camera, NFC reader, fingerprint reader. At the same time I am sick of WiFi with a doorbell camera. I need reliability and that's not WiFi's strongest suit. I'm holding out for the new Doorbell Lite.

That would be me. My front door is 12 feet from my network closet under the stairs. Two small holes drilled and I have POE. I have a G4 doorbell there now that will move to the back door to replace one that died. I WFH so I'm not fussy about a package camera, the main camera captures it just fine. Do not need access control as that would require replacement of my front door and jamb. Old fashioned key still works fine.

I can't speak for 'people' but my G4 doorbells have been terrible with WiFi. The front door one is 12 feet from an AP but still shows signal strength issues. The antennae in the original G4s was pretty poor. There are plenty of how to articles on replacing them here on Reddit and ending up with fantastic signal.

After using the original G4 (not Pro) doorbells, I will never use a WiFi doorbell again. It is POE all the way and I will buy once cry once on running ethernet. One of my G4 doorbells just died after 3 years. Both doorbells constantly disconnecting/reconnecting even though they are each 10-12 feet away from an AP. I bought a G4 Pro POE for $379 to replace my dead G4 (because they don't sell the POE without the Chime). Turns out I could have waited until the Doorbell Lite ships as that is pretty much like an improved G4 with POE. I am deciding whether to resell the G4 Pro POE. I don't need a fingerprint reader and additional package camera, but I am concerned about being without one of my doorbells for months.

You’re all welcome. 2 G4s bought 6 weeks ago. Fml

Seems too dang big. I don’t want a doorbell that quite so massive. I don’t really need a screen on… a doorbell. I’m happy with the g4 doorbell. (Non pro). Better camera would be nice but meh. It’s good enough now. Frankly I’m thrilled that it’s POE… I wish my current one was. It does need to be white, however. I’m not sticking a black monstrosity on my front wall. I’m sure it’s fine with some houses, but not mine.

I got the non-PoE WiFi model and power was pretty easy to fix, \~$20. The transformer on my existing doorbell wasn't enough to run both the G4 doorbell camera and my existing mechanical chime. I upgraded my doorbell transformer to a 16V 30VA and now I don't have any issues. Both the camera and mechanical chime work great. i was able to get this at my local HomeDepot. Amazon has a lot also if you need to order one online. [https://www.homedepot.com/p/Defiant-Wired-16VAC-30VA-Doorbell-Transformer-Compatible-with-Most-Video-Doorbells-18000044/322882044](https://www.homedepot.com/p/Defiant-Wired-16VAC-30VA-Doorbell-Transformer-Compatible-with-Most-Video-Doorbells-18000044/322882044)

For WAF in my household, it's gotta be as small as possible. The G4 Pro was vetoed because it's so big, so we have a regular G4 doorbell. Even the G6 Lite is larger than the G4.

[G6 Doorbell Lite](https://store.ui.com/us/en/category/cameras-doorbells/products/uvc-doorbell): 137 x 40 x 26 mm [G4 Doorbell](https://techspecs.ui.com/unifi/cameras-nvrs/uvc-g4-doorbell): 118 x 47 x 26 mm So the G4 Doorbell is about 1" shorter and 1/3" wider.

Agreed. It’s for a reason I got the G4 non-pro even tho it wasn’t the latest model at the time. These things aren’t locked up in a closet with someone drooling over IT stuff and no one else seeing it. It’s on the front of the house and I don’t think it looks sleek.

I upgraded from the G4 Doorbell (non-Pro) to the G4 Doorbell Pro (WiFi), and I had the same symptom — functional doorbell with no chime. However, I have two mechanical chimes instead of one. I was already using a 16V 30VA transformer, but the second child and length of wiring must’ve made it insufficient. I ended up swapping the transformer for a 24V 40VA transformer, and the 16V chimes with 24V chimes (which was surprisingly easy to do because I found one that used the same plastic mounting bracket as my previous chimes). Everything works great now (and I know I have enough doorbell power for anything else in the future).

Yeah, I have it. The ubiquiti ecosystem just rocks. The user flows in their apps, the hardware, the locally stored data archive and security features for remote access. It's not a value brand, but it rocks—if you have money I would go with ubiquiti everything and never look back—I think of them like I think of Apple in terms of UX and core tech. If you have the network gear it's just like that but applied to security. Slick. I have something like a 16TB security drive in my UDM pro that logs my 10+ cameras locally for some months, then a rolling backup to a NAS that gives me a year+ of logging in case we are slow to notice something. It's all completely rock solid, and their wifi gear has enough juice that I haven't bothered pulling POE for most of them. I never scratch more than 40% of my wireless bandwidth. Funnily, the G4 just more than paid for itself as I was able to prove to a contractor that their guy created some gnarly property damage. It was far away but clear as day. I panned easily through at high speed to find the right time, capped the frames, archived them and sent in like 3min.

I moved to UniFi and their doorbell is 10000x better. The video quality is incomparable.

My Ring doorbell was useless. It missed events all the time, the intercom barely worked, and the video quality was garbage. I replaced it with a UniFi wifi doorbell and all those problems went away.

Native HomeKit: Aqara G4/G410 More involved: UniFi G4 doorbell -> Scrypted UniFi Plugin -> HKSV