Video doorbells that work with Home Assistant

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If you can run a cable to the door, this is the most robust local doorbell we've tested: Platinum-certified Works with Home Assistant, RTSP/ONVIF streams that survive a Wi-Fi outage or router reboot, and no subscription. Same 5MP sensor, 180° lens and IP65 shell as the WiFi model, so image quality and night vision are identical — the difference is entirely install and reliability. The WiFi model is a five-minute swap onto existing bell wiring; this one needs a PoE or 12-24V AC run to the door, plus a PoE injector that isn't in the box, so weigh the cable pull and that extra hardware cost against the WiFi variant's lower total price.

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Reolink's cordless option, and still Platinum-certified Works with Home Assistant — but budget for more than the £99.59 sticker price: proper local storage and the full local API need a separate Reolink Home Hub (roughly £50 extra), since standalone mode drops both. What you get for that is genuine no-drill install — mount anywhere within WiFi range, no bell wiring or transformer needed — plus HDR night vision that holds up well after dark. If you already have bell wiring, the wired WiFi model is the simpler HA setup: no hub dependency, no battery-aware polling throttling to work around.

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The default choice for HA users in the UK: Platinum-certified Works with Home Assistant, fully local RTSP/ONVIF streams, doorbell press events, and microSD storage with zero subscription. This is the wired-only WiFi model — no battery buffer, so it needs your existing bell transformer (12-24V AC) or a plug-in adapter; Reolink also sells a separate PoE variant for hardwired network runs and a standalone battery model for renters without bell wiring. Colour night vision and 2K+ detail hold up well after dark for a doorbell camera. Install is a straightforward swap if you already have bell wiring; without it, budget for a transformer kit.

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The sleeper pick for local-control fans: the official native ezviz integration handles cloud settings, but you can manually flip on RTSP in the Ezviz app's LAN Live View setting for a genuine local stream into HA — no other budget cloud-first doorbell here does that as cleanly. Hardware backs it up: a 176° diagonal lens sees the whole porch rather than a letterbox strip, IR night vision covers a useful 5m, and an IP65 shell copes with a UK winter bolted outdoors. The gap is the doorbell press event, which isn't exposed, so plan on a Shelly-on-the-chime workaround for ring automations.

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Solid value at ~£93 with a 2K 180° head-to-toe view, bundled chime and local microSD recording — no subscription required, undercutting Nest's £180+ hardware and competitive with Ring's battery doorbells. The 10,000mAh battery is rated for around 8 months per charge, but topping it back up takes roughly 6 hours with the doorbell off the door entirely — a real hassle if it's your only entry point. The bigger catch for HA users: the local RTSP stream only works when hardwired, so battery-only installs are limited to app-land. Best fit: a budget-conscious wired install where you want local video without paying for cloud storage.

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The G4's successor is the tinkerer's pick: a local HomeKit path into HA, an RTSP stream (wired power only), on-device face recognition and a chime that doubles as a Matter/Thread hub — no subscription needed. Six AA batteries claim up to 5 months wireless, but that drops fast with heavy motion traffic, and battery mode loses the RTSP feed HA needs — hardwire it if the camera matters more than cable-free fitting. At £109.99 it costs more than Ring's Battery Doorbell (£79.99, cloud-only) or Reolink's WiFi doorbell (£89.99, fully local), but neither of those offers a local HomeKit Secure Video path — that's the premium you're paying for.

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The premium local-first option: PoE-powered with dual cameras (5MP front + 8MP package cam), fully local via the excellent native unifiprotect integration, zero subscription. The catch is the ecosystem tax — it doesn't work standalone; it needs a UniFi Protect host, and even the cheapest viable one (a Cloud Gateway Ultra or similar console) adds a meaningful chunk on the doorbell's own £300-447 street price. Genuinely worth it if you already run UniFi gear and want one more device on the same console; a poor first purchase otherwise. Want a reliable local doorbell without buying into a console? The Reolink Video Doorbell PoE gets local RTSP for a fraction of the cost.

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The budget single-lens pick in eufy's doorbell line-up — £69.99, no monthly fee, no subscription for core recording. Versus the pricier E340, you lose the second parcel-view lens and the HomeBase hub entirely: the C30's 5,000mAh battery is sealed in rather than swappable, so a flat battery means unmounting the whole doorbell to recharge via cable. 2K FHD video is sharp enough for face recognition at the door, but with no local hub buffering events, the usual eufy caveats — no official Works with Home Assistant certification, community-only integration — bite harder here. Best for renters and first-time buyers wanting cheap doorbell alerts, not a serious HA security node.

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The strongest local-control story among the battery Tapo doorbells: the community HomeAssistant-Tapo-Control HACS integration talks to it over local RTSP/ONVIF and even picks up doorbell-press events via UDP broadcast, all without a subscription. It's unofficial and reverse-engineered rather than TP-Link-sanctioned, so treat it as local-but-best-effort, not certified — unlike the Reolink Video Doorbell WiFi's Platinum Works with Home Assistant badge elsewhere in this list. What you get for that trade-off: a 166° diagonal field of view, 850nm IR plus spotlight colour night vision out to about 7.6m, and a battery doorbell that's genuinely more capable than most at this price.

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Unique dual-camera design (face view + parcel view at your feet) with 8GB local storage and no subscription — superb hardware value at around £110. Battery life is strong: eufy rates the removable pack for up to six months per charge, and colour night vision reaches roughly 5m — fine for the porch, not the driveway. The catch is Home Assistant: it relies on the community eufy_security HACS integration, still needs a eufy cloud account, and can break on firmware updates. Reolink's Video Doorbell WiFi holds official Platinum Works with Home Assistant certification with a simpler, fully local path — pick eufy for the dual-camera trick, Reolink if HA reliability matters more.

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A capable doorbell let down by its HA story: there's no official Arlo integration in HA core any more, so you're relying on the community-maintained aarlo HACS integration — actively updated, but not what we'd stake a front-door feed on. Battery is rated around six months per charge, the 180-degree square lens gives a genuinely useful head-to-toe view, and night vision is sharp black-and-white infrared. It's cloud-only with no local streaming, and Arlo Secure is effectively mandatory for recorded video, so budget for the subscription too. Want local recording and an official Works with Home Assistant badge instead? Reolink's Video Doorbell WiFi is the safer HA pick.

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Handle with care: unlike SwitchBot's locks and sensors, this doorbell isn't on the Works with Home Assistant certified list, and the official switchbot_cloud integration has no camera platform at all. A community HACS component gives a local WebRTC stream, but with no audio and — critically — no motion or doorbell-press event entities, so you can't automate on someone ringing it. Night vision is colour rather than grainy IR, and the housing is IP65-rated for UK weather. It won't trigger an existing wired chime — it ships with its own indoor LCD display/chime unit, so no rewiring, but no reusing your current bell either. Buy it for local video-on-demand, not doorbell-press automation.

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The dual-camera setup earns its keep: a 120° horizontal main lens (160° diagonal) covers the porch while the 97° package-view lens, angled downward, catches parcels dropped just below the main frame that single-camera doorbells routinely miss. Night vision runs on four infrared sensors rather than a spotlight or colour sensor, so expect crisp black-and-white detail after dark, not colour footage. Battery life is rated up to 180 days per charge under eufy's standard test (10 daily motion events, 20-second clips), though heavy traffic or cold weather will cut that down noticeably. Solid hardware — the HA integration caveats live below.

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Amazon owns both Blink and Ring, and this doorbell is the budget half of that family — RRP £49.99 against the Ring Battery Doorbell's £79.99, though new stock of this 2nd-gen ASIN has currently sold out on Amazon UK and it's only listed via the Used Buy Box (around £23 at last check, condition and price will vary). Battery life is the strong point: Blink claims up to two years per set of 2x AA lithium batteries, swapped in seconds, versus Ring's sealed battery needing a USB-C recharge every 6-12 months. Night vision is infrared-only, in keeping with a spec sheet that reads a generation behind. In Home Assistant both integrations are cloud-only with no live view, just stored clips and sensors — the real choice is price versus polish: cheaper and more DIY here, pricier and marginally smoother with Ring.

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The mains-powered sibling to the battery Ring doorbells in this directory, for £59.99 -- never charging a battery, but the same limits apply: Retinal 2K, wide field of view, 6x zoom, low-light night vision (Ring doesn't publish exact FOV degrees or confirm colour night vision for this SKU), and the official ring integration remains cloud-only -- Ring Protect (from £4.99/month) is needed for recorded clips, not just live view. Pick this over the battery model only if you have doorbell wiring already. For a wired doorbell with published IP65, confirmed colour night vision, and full local RTSP storage instead of a subscription, the Reolink Video Doorbell WiFi is £30 more.

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The UK's default doorbell at a sharp £79.99 — the right call for most households, but know what you give up against the £219.99 Pro: 2K instead of Retinal 4K, 6x zoom instead of 10x, no radar-based 3D motion or Bird's Eye Zones. The sealed, non-removable battery needs a USB-C top-up every few months; there's no spare pack to swap in. Ding and motion event entities are also currently unreliable in HA on this exact model. Still cloud-only, with a Ring Home subscription needed for recorded clips. If local control matters more than the ecosystem, the Reolink Video Doorbell WiFi is £10 more, fully local, and Works with Home Assistant certified.

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Great on-device person/parcel/animal detection and 3 hours of free event history, but the HA experience is the worst of the bunch: the cloud nest integration needs a one-off $5 Google Device Access registration and a fiddly Cloud Console setup, and there's no local stream — just an event-triggered clip preview. Battery life is the other catch: Google's own figures are 1 month at a busy front door, up to 6 months somewhere quiet, worse than the Ring Battery Doorbell's 6-12 month general estimate. Both are cloud-only with decent night vision; if you're not already deep in Google Home, Ring's HA integration is the less painful pick.

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Ring's flagship battery doorbell: Retinal 4K, 10x zoom, radar-based 3D motion, and the best image quality in the Ring line-up. The 9400mAh battery lasts roughly 3-6 months per charge (Ring's estimate), with USB-C fast charging, an optional solar panel, or hardwire it to existing bell wiring instead. Live view and notifications are free, but clip storage and person alerts need a Ring Home subscription from £4.99/month. Same caveat as every Ring: cloud-only in HA, no local storage. Local-first buyers should look at the Reolink Video Doorbell WiFi instead — Works with Home Assistant certified, fully local RTSP, zero subscription, half the price.