#AMAZON CHIME REVIEW PLUS#

The WebRTC Detective Team is on the case but early indications are YES, AWS Chime is using WebRTC. This should be a warning shot across the bow of traditional Unified Comms suppliers. Chime is positioning where you can be notified to join a session. Unlike a typical WebEx session where you join and leave. The most interesting aspect of Chime is it wants to run all the time (foreground or background). My first impressions are mostly positive. Nonetheless, it’s a start and it’s a marker on the table to say AWS is playing in the collaboration space. So Chime is neither fish nor fowl at the moment. It’s not got the chat functionality you’d see in Slack and the audio/video capabilities won’t likely scare or Skype sufficiently. At first glance, it’s hard to tell who AWS is swiping at? Chime isn’t as fully featured as GoToMeeting or WebEx. However, this is (to my knowledge) the first real user-facing application that AWS has introduced. Amazon has been working towards more user level enterprise services with the introduction of WorkDocs (a swipe at Box.net) and WorkMail (trying to take on /Exchange). You won't be able to make the doorbell ring via the hub or anything like that, which is something offered by Google's own doorbells.Amazon announced their Chime service/application today which offers an audio/video conferencing service with an orientation to enterprise customers. You can ask Google Assistant to show you the live view from the DB2 on a Nest Hub or Chromecast, but that's about it. Unfortunately, once you're set up, the support is fairly limited. The majority of our smart devices are controlled by Google Home, and integrating Ezviz products is nice and easy. There's also the option to integrate the Ezviz doorbell with third-party systems like Google Home and Amazon Alexa. You won't get fancy things like facial recognition, either, but those kinds of features are pretty much reserved for products with twice the asking price. You don't get the ability to exclude zones from detection, it's simply low, medium or high sensitivity.

You can either activate a PIR sensor or use AI-based human shape detection to trigger the camera and, as far as we can tell, it worked spot on every time. The only things we didn't like are that some of the icons require an extremely precise tap in order to function, and some of the icons are fairly cryptic, requiring you to tap on them to figure out what they do.įor instance, when you have the live view of the doorbell open, there's a symbol that looks like it should take you to a full-screen view but it's actually for sharing the device with family members.Ĭompared to some of the competition, the detection features are fairly rudimentary, but they do work well. The DB2 is controlled by the Ezviz app and for the most part, it's a fairly user-friendly experience.

This is the area that's likely to be of interest anyway, so that works just fine for us. Since it's a doorbell, the IR beams are designed to illuminate the near-field primarily so it does a better job with subjects in the first couple of meters before tapering off. It's a nice wide image, which makes it easy to frame all the important areas, and its 4:3 aspect ratio means that you'll be able to see doorstep packages without chopping anyone's head off.Īt night, the infrared lights kick in and do an admirable job of illuminating our particularly dark driveway. The visibility angle, meanwhile, is slightly superior on the DB2, offering a 176-degree field of view. The 3-megapixel sensor on the DB2 puts it roughly on par with the Google Nest Doorbell (wired).

1/2.7-inch, 3-megapixel CMOS sensor (2K resolution).

Plus, you can enable an anti-tamper alarm for added peace of mind. It's nice and easy to do, but it wouldn't be obvious to a potential thief. When it comes time to charge the doorbell, it can be removed from its mount by pushing a pin into a hole on the underside, just like ejecting a SIM card from a smartphone.

#AMAZON CHIME REVIEW PLUS#

The microSD card slot is located on the chime unit, instead of the doorbell, which is a big plus when it comes to security. This just plugs into a standard power outlet and will wirelessly communicate to the doorbell. We don't have a traditional doorbell chime, so, instead, we're relying on the wireless chime.

Amazon chime review