Usually go out to work, there will always be some concerns about the elderly and children at home, you need to know their time out, whether it is normal to go home. So I started a smart doorbell, but found two use slots during the experience: dry battery power, and no active screen viewing. The comprehensive experience is still relatively poor, which is also the original intention of wanting to change another smart doorbell.
Hualai Technology, one of the Xiaomi ecological chain enterprises, recently launched a new smart doorbell product: Hualai Xiaofang Smart Doorbell 2 Pro, as an upgraded product, there are many improvements in appearance and performance. Especially in terms of image quality, the resolution has reached 2K, and it is powered by lithium batteries, which supports active wake-up and Xiaoai Classmate/Xiaomi TV linkage. Today, let's evaluate how this smart doorbell performs.
A brief look at the unbox contains a doorbell host, an indoor base station, a power adapter, a USB cable, a card pin, and a manual for use.
Hualai Xiaofang smart doorbell 2 Pro is mainly composed of two parts: outdoor host and indoor base station, the doorbell host adopts a rectangular design, the indoor unit is a cylindrical design, and the appearance shape and color continue the simple style of the Millet series.
The back of the doorbell host has a detachable base, the base has 3M superglue on it, generally installed on the door directly paste, the lamination strength is very high, without the help of tools is difficult to remove. If mounted on the wall, it can also be fixed by four screws.
The doorbell host adopts a black piano paint process panel, at the top is a large 167° wide-angle camera, and there is a doorbell button below. The product integrates the functions of cat's eye, doorbell and monitoring, which can grasp the dynamics in front of the door all the time and anywhere through the mobile phone; it can also be remotely video called, and when going out, it will not miss visiting guests, express parcels, etc. The host supports IP65 dustproof and waterproof rating, and can be used normally when installed in outdoor environments.
Indoor signal base stations mainly have three functions, one is to enhance the network signal in the house, the other is the doorbell player, and the surveillance video and pictures are stored through memory cards. There are very home router placement positions far from the door, this time you can "transit" through the indoor base station to ensure that the signal of the doorbell host is stable. The indoor unit can also adjust the settings such as the ringtone, volume, and ring time of the doorbell, which is still more user-friendly to use.
In addition to the power interface at the end of the indoor signal base station, there is also a network cable interface, which can be connected through the network cable and the router, so that the network signal transmission will be more stable. A memory card slot is also designed at the bottom of the fuselage for local video and picture storage.
The installation of the doorbell is very simple, the 3M glue of the host back panel is torn off and directly pasted on the door panel. When installing, pay attention to the installation height, not too high and not too low, it is best to connect with the mobile phone first, through the video screen to see which height is appropriate and then install. (The two smart doorbells next to hualai xiaofang smart doorbell 2 Pro are 360 and ding-zero) Will also show you the comparison of the shooting effects of the three doorbells later, but because the iteration version of the product is different, it will not be compared in detail.
Through the Mijia APP on the mobile phone to carry out the doorbell network binding operation, step by step to follow the prompts to operate, the whole process even Xiaobai users can easily get started.
The operation interface of the software APP is simple in layout and relatively complete in functions, and it can view videos, take photos and other trigger events in real time. Based on AI face recognition technology, you can also intelligently classify family, friends, and couriers, and after adding face information, the doorbell can quickly and directly distinguish who the visitor is before going out.
The previously used jingle zero doorbell can only enter the real-time viewing screen after triggering the monitoring alarm, and the Hualai Xiaofang smart doorbell 2 Pro supports remote second wake-up, and the dynamics in front of the door can be viewed anytime and anywhere through the mobile phone, which is still more practical. The doorbell also supports AI humanoid detection, which can filter invalid alarms, such as some kittens and puppies passing in front of the door can ignore these alarms.
The following focuses on the picture quality effect of Hualai Xiaofang Smart Doorbell 2 Pro, the doorbell is equipped with a 167 ° large wide angle camera, you can see that the shooting range is very large, and the area at the door of the home is almost completely covered. In terms of picture quality, it has reached a 2K ultra-high resolution (2304*1296), which is clearer than 1080P. In the APP, you can also choose 360P and 2K image quality switching.
The picture above is the shooting effect of the 360 smart doorbell, this doorbell is equipped with a 162 ° fisheye lens, you can see that the picture is square, and the display in the upper and lower areas is larger than the Hualai Small Square Smart Doorbell 2 Pro, and the left and right horizontal directions are worse.
Let's compare the picture range and quality of the jingle doorbell, the comparison is still clear at a glance. Many areas at the door are invisible, which is one reason why the product should be replaced after napping.
Of course, the doorbell also supports night vision function, the host is equipped with 6 940nm non-disturbing infrared night vision lights, built-in IR-CUT, you can automatically switch the night vision mode according to the light and shade of the surrounding environment, through the actual shooting map can see the night vision of the picture effect is also very good, the details in front of the door can be seen clearly.
In the settings interface, you can see that there are many setting options, such as doorbell settings, motion detection settings, etc., users can set according to their actual use environment and habits. When there is an alarm event, the user's mobile phone will receive push information in time, and also through the doorbell can also be remote video call function, when not at home can be through the voice with the courier, takeaway, visitor to talk, more convenient. The doorbell also supports voice changing operations, which can change the voice into a type of uncle to reply to strangers at the door.
Hualai Xiaofang smart doorbell 2 Pro supports device linkage function, you can link with the small love speaker or Xiaomi TV in the home, for example, when the doorbell is ringed, you can trigger the voice through the small love speaker, prompting someone to knock on the door; when watching TV, you can also link the Xiaomi TV, directly pop up the doorbell video screen on the TV screen, don't worry about the TV sound can not hear the doorbell sound.
Linkage Xiaomi TV screen display
In addition to local storage by using a memory card, Hualai Xiaofang Smart Doorbell 2 Pro also supports cloud storage services, the device itself provides a 3-day free cloud storage service, and users themselves can also choose to purchase longer-term rolling storage.
Finally, let's talk about the battery life of this doorbell, the doorbell host is equipped with two 2500mAh lithium batteries, the official claim that a single charge can be used for half a year, in the APP can also view the number of days left in the battery, of course, the actual endurance is also related to the doorbell settings, event trigger frequency, basically 4-5 months is no problem. The doorbell that was previously powered by dry batteries basically had to change the battery once a month, and the experience was very bad.
In general, this Hualai Xiaofang smart doorbell 2 Pro is still relatively satisfied in terms of performance, especially the battery life and 2K HD picture quality and large wide-angle picture size for home security, guest visits and other scenes. If there are elderly people and children in the home like napping, they can grasp the information of their going out and going home in time.
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