Nooie Smart Doorbell Cam Review: Stylish Home Security

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The Nooie Doorbell Cam offers both essential security and everyday features to simplify your life. This stylish wireless doorbell by Nooie also forgoes a mandatory subscription to keep its usage flexible. For those looking for protection without a huge investment cost, Nooie’s doorbell cam may work for you.

Nooie Doorbell Cam Design

From a design angle, Nooie has broken from the standard whites, black, and metallic hue focus of other doorbell cams. The speckled beige coloration provides a warm neutral option for those looking for an alternate color option from the norm.

The Nooie wireless doorbell measures 6.7 x 2.4 x 1.6 inches but weighs only 1.94 pounds, so it feels extremely light in your hand. When either installing or removing the doorbell cam on its mount, the body’s dimensions also allow for an easy grip.

With an above-average size, it serves as a great visual deterrent since it’s easy to spot at a distance. In practice, the doorbell button is also a good size, so there’s no issue giving it a press regardless of how big your hands are. The speaker at the bottom of the doorbell cam isn’t the loudest, but it’s clear enough to communicate from.

Nooie Doorbell Cam Technical Specifications

To serve as a proper technological 24/7 security guard, Nooie offers some impressive specs to keep everything in sight. This wireless doorbell cam uses a 2K resolution to provide crisp video coverage. The 158-degree field of view is smaller than other similarly priced doorbell cams, but it seemed a smaller trade-off for the camera depth and quality.

There was a small blind spot as a result, but the proper placement of the doorbell circumvented this issue almost entirely. By extension, the night vision coverage of up to 49 feet and passive infrared motion detection ensured even more control over my detection zone.

This doorbell cam comes rated at IP65, so it’s considered weatherproof. While you won’t want to submerge the unit in water, it was able to stand up to turbulent thunderstorms and rain blowback during its testing window.

For those concerned about device theft, Nooie also features an anti-theft siren if the device is removed from its backing. To prevent accidental triggers, you can also disable this protection at any point from settings.

Nooie Wireless Doorbell Battery, Set-Up, and User Experience

Nooie opted for a wireless design for its doorbell cam, so it needed a battery that could provide power for prolonged everyday use. Its doorbell cam utilizes a battery with a 10,000 mAh capacity. In terms of charging, it took a few hours of outlet charging to fill it to the max via the included USB-C cable.

The battery life will fluctuate depending on what settings you opt into. These hinge around the detection radius, so they can be tweaked towards your home or particular concern. Even when opting into the higher drain settings, the battery drain was never severe enough that it made me feel like I needed to opt into a lower-tier.

When integrating a new smart device into your home, it can be tempting to stick with the most common market device. Set-ups for these tend to be the most streamlined, and they do a good job at making the process painless. Even if you haven’t heard of Nooie, it’s worth noting that they put a lot of effort into the graphical guidance and intuitive functionality.

When you open the box, everything is clearly labeled. The included instructions cover the major bits, but visual add-ons such as a card explaining the angled mount and mounting foam sticker make for useful visual aids.

The Nooie app itself also tries to keep you from getting stuck during the set-up process. If you run into an issue and something isn’t working as intended, Nooie made sure to include in-app tips on what to do next. Not having to immediately dip into a manual to troubleshoot was a time-saving user-friendly touch.

Similarly, learning the LED color patterns for both the doorbell and base station makes it easy to discern specific issues.

Placing and Utilizing the Base Station

The Nooie base station serves a variety of useful functions at the cost of an outlet plug. It provides dual-band Wi-Fi amplification, local storage, an ethernet jack, and plays your in-home chimes.

Placement near your router is more optimal if you have any issues connecting wirelessly. If this doesn’t help, the included ethernet cable can circumvent connectivity issues by directly connecting to your router. You may also need to make some router setting tweaks if issues continue to occur.

At the side of the base station is its microSD slot. For those interested in local storage, the option to utilize up to 128 GB of space on a microSD provides some immediate benefits.

First off, there’s instant freedom from cloud-based subscription models. Plus, if someone were to steal your doorbell cam, this in-home measure keeps your data safely stored. Furthermore, the short recordings don’t take up much space, so you don’t have to worry about your card filling up rapidly.

In terms of chime ringtones, there’s a small handful of options. Nooie offers a total of four default chimes with one downloadable holiday addition. They’re mostly forgettable, but they play well from the base station.

Mounting the Nooie Doorbell Cam

To help get your doorbell cam up and positioned perfectly, Nooie included two wall mounts (one flat and one angled fifteen-degree mount), screws (two concrete and two wood screws), and four anchors. The included mount foam sticker also makes it incredibly easy to visualize your placement prior to installation.

After installing your choice mount, attaching the doorbell is a simple matter. With the flat wall mount, I had no issue placing the doorbell cam. However, the fifteen-degree wall mount had a top locking mechanism that would stick.

While this was relatively minor and solved by feel, the added jostling of the device to properly lock and also remove the doorbell proved irksome.

To remove the doorbell, there’s a small hole at the bottom of each mount that requires you to insert a small included pin. This releases the lock and allows you to safely remove the doorbell cam.

Nooie Doorbell Cam Monitoring

When you’re ready to check in on your doorbell, the Nooie app makes it easy to manage the experience. Once you’ve selected your doorbell from the camera list and checked its current connection strength, you can either go live or view recordings from the timeline.

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for (var i = 0; i From the live view, you can toggle between 2K and HD video depending on your connection. While also in live view, you can record video, take a photo, set off the alarm, speak via your device’s mic, and mute the live feed. If you tap the view playback option beneath the icons, you can view prior recordings by date either in a timeline or list view.

If you do run into issues here, these typically are a result of your network strength. These present in the form of a laggy live feed, recordings not playing always, and the rare loss of connection with the doorbell itself. With a faster connection speed, the app works fluidly.

Responding With the Nooie App

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for (var i = 0; i When someone presses your doorbell, the Nooie app will cut to a live call screen with a preview of what the doorbell cam sees. From here, you can answer for two-way talk, end the alert, or respond with a pre-programmed quick response or use a custom one that you’ve recorded for yourself. If you want to change your current custom quick responses, it’s as simple as tapping the respective slot and recording over them.

In practice, the quick response can be immensely helpful if you don’t have time to chat. The only unfortunate element is the name character limit for the custom responses is fairly short, so you can’t go as detailed as the default messages.

Nooie Detection Options and Notifications

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for (var i = 0; i Besides the basic doorbell press, the detection elements on Nooie’s doorbell cam allow you to both adjust your battery life as well as any related notifications. The PIR (passive infrared) motion detection works at a default sensitivity of ten feet, but you can adjust it to either three feet or up to twenty feet to tweak your notification frequency. Human-shape detection is activated by default, so you won’t have to worry about any simple motion triggering an alert.

During testing, I didn’t run into false alerts, but the option to set your detection zone makes it even easier to save battery if you really want to narrow your view. To maximize your battery life, there’s also the option to disable the use of PIR motion detection.

As for the actual detections, these get sorted into human detection and doorbell presses within the Nooie inbox.

Nooie Cloud Versus Local Storage

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for (var i = 0; i One of the high points of the Nooie experience is paying for its cloud service remains completely optional. If you’re after continuous recording and want to replay events from your video history, you can choose between Nooie’s assorted plans. You either pay monthly or yearly while opting to either save videos for up to seven or thirty days before they’re deleted automatically.

The service is backed by Amazon Web Service, and you can cancel at any time. If you pay for one month with seven days of video playback, it will cost you one dollar as their cheapest option.

If you need Nooie to capture every single possible moment, or you’re especially worried about porch theft, then it doesn’t cost much to try. In testing, local storage sufficed for my rural area with its set recording at intervals and overall sensitivity to any human detection. However, in a more populated or busy space, it’s easy to see where 24/7 recording can appeal more.

 Third-Party Control With Nooie

The Nooie Doorbell Cam supports both third-party control with Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant. For testing, I had an Amazon Echo Show 8 on hand. To see a live feed, simply ask Alexa to show you the doorbell cam’s name.

When pressing the doorbell, Alexa can play its own chimes and note that someone is at the front door. While the overall integration is relatively minor, it does offer more ringtone options and allow for an alert from another room away from the base station. So if you’re in a larger home and you already have a supported assistant device, it’s worth integrating your doorbell cam.

Should You Buy the Nooie Doorbell Cam?

Whether you buy the Nooie Doorbell Cam boils down to what features you value the most. For most, the excellent picture quality and superb detection make it an appealing option. However, possible deterrents include its wireless-only option, limited subscription benefits, and app glitches.

If you’re after a more budget-friendly doorbell cam and can work with its limitations, the Nooie Doorbell Cam offers great value.

Source: makeuseof.com