The Aqara Doorbell Experience: 30 Days, 2 Doorbells, 1 Wired, 1 Battery

[@volcolby]

How about you? How much do you value local storage as an option? Do you mind paying monthly for video history?

[@chrismartin8103]

I have a question about the privacy areas. You say it only allows you to select three boxes on the grid. Isn’t that three areas (connected boxes) and not just three single boxes?

[@volcolby]

So, I went back and looked. I have 3 areas blacked out, and that is actually 6 boxes. I cannot add any more area to any of them, but it’s ample to exclude my neighbor’s windows.

[@chrismartin8103]

@@volcolby yeah, after commenting I received mine and could verify that you can create 3 rectangular areas as blackout zones. You probably need to delete an existing area and recreate it if you want to add more to the area. BTW: I noticed that the Apple Home app also allows you to create activity zones that supposedly influence the areas HomeKit uses to detect movement. That could also be an interesting option.

[@volcolby]

@@chrismartin8103I checked out the HomeKit settings and it does offer a better option, especially if you draw the area and then invert it to be the exclusion. Thanks for the input.