This Sleek Doorbell Camera Is Also A Smart Home Hub

Aqara revealed nan long-awaited update to its Video Doorbell G4 astatine CES this week, and it looks for illustration it’s been worthy nan wait. The Aqara Doorbell Camera Hub G410 adds 2K video quality, a 4:3 facet ratio, and end-to-end encryption connected unrecorded and recorded video. It is too 1 of nan first doorbells to usage an mmWave sensor for overmuch meticulous personification detection.

The G410 useful complete dual-band Wi-Fi and has Thread and Zigbee radios connected board. So — yes — it’s a full-on smart location hub. It tin nexus to and merge immoderate Aqara accessories and third-party Matter devices into your smart home.

Aqara is too adding Real-Time Streaming Protocol support truthful you tin nonstop its provender locally to a third-party customer specified arsenic Home Assistant. And this is each successful summation to features carried complete from nan G4, specified arsenic Apple Home compatibility (including HomeKit Secure Video support), on-device facial recognition, conception storage, and nan expertise to activity connected artillery (six AAs) aliases beryllium hardwired to your home’s wiring. When hardwired, it offers 24/7 continuous signaling to a microSD card.

The doorbell too supports Amazon Alexa, Google Home, and Samsung SmartThings to watercourse to compatible smart displays. It useful pinch Aqara’s caller Panel Hub S1 Plus, which tin enactment arsenic a video intercom incorrect your house.

There are a less disappointments, though. The conception of position is wider than nan G4’s, astatine 172 degrees connected nan diagonal, and it now offers a top-to-bottom 4:3 facet ratio, but nan G410 doesn’t personification HDR imaging, which intends it whitethorn beryllium harder to spot faces successful immoderate lighting. Its upwind opinionated is still IPX3, meaning it really needs to beryllium mounted nether a building aliases point akin to protect against dense rainfall.

The doorbell’s smart alerts are constricted to group and mobility — location are nary package, animal, aliases conveyance alerts (but you tin get them done Apple Home). It too only records clips for up to 12 seconds astatine a time. Like nan G4, nan G410 won’t ringing your existing chime and still requires that you plug successful a mini chime repeater to a adjacent powerfulness outlet. This tin location a microSD insubstantial for conception storage.

The G4 offered free unreality storage, but nan G410 will require a subscription. Local retention is free, though, and you tin too usage Apple’s HomeKit Secure Video activity for recorded video. There’s nary pricing aliases merchandise time yet, but nan G4 was $150, truthful this will apt onshore location astir that price.