Works great at my gate!! - not now!!! – RCA Security Review

I had to change my review, going from 5 star to 2. Updated again 12/16/19 Just changed to one star. It’s bad enough I now have to keep relogging in —REALLY?!! Now it’s offers the CApcha verification, but it won’t accept whatever I type the accurate letters and numbers in! Ridiculous! Now the camera is worthless!, ______________^^^^^^^^^^^ My first irritation is after a slight power interruption I had to physically go to my camera to push a restart button - and I couldn’t until I got home! So who was at my door while I was gone? 2. I stopped getting notifications and then noticed it had stopped recording. I can still live view, but, again, don’t know who was here while I was gone. It’s still not recording and it has unlinked my phone number and the app doesn’t respond to me trying to link up again! 3. There’s no option to contact. So to whom do I submit problems to? Very frustrating! This was my first review: Ive had this video doorbell about a month now. I was hesitant to buy it because of some of the negative reviews. I have to say I’ve had none of those issues written about. Perhaps those issues or bugs have been fixed. The set up was easy. I have it set up at my front gate, which is about 150’ from my house. I already had a power supply there for my automatic gate opener. Took me a few days to fully understand how to view the videos. At first I thought I had a lot of missed action because they weren’t showing up in my messages. But then when I change to view videos I could view everything that had come within range of the motion detector. I’m not sure why everything doesn’t show up in Messages. But I’m glad I can view all action through videos. Prior to this I had the I See Bell. My attraction to both was no monthly fee to view My videos. The Isee had a lot of glitches at first but software updates seemed to solve. The main problem with it was it’s limitation to the 2.4 WiFi network due to its distance at the gate. It stopped working after a little over a year. Then I began searching for a new video doorbell. My criteria was a 5 GHz WiFi network and no monthly fees. While more expensive the RCA had what I was looking for. I view it on my iPhone 8 and iPad. Because I was not hooking it up to a prior doorbell wiring I did need a power supply so I bought an 18 volt doorbell transformer, UL certified Power supply adapter transformer charger compatible video doorbells. (18v AC/500 mA). Don’t go with less voltage. So one month in I’m very happy with my purchase
Review by 777Spaz on RCA Security.