Optex iVision Wireless 2-Way Video Door Intercom System

This unit works as advertised, but the range is a bit limited. It seems to be able to penetrate about 20 to 30 feet into the house. When you go through more than about two wall, the video becomes choppy as does the audio. If you have only one wall between the bell and the intended usage location it should work well for you. I returned this unit and ended up replacing it with a Doorbot. The Dootbot was less expensive and more functional, but different people have had different experiences with Doorbot since it is still a very new product.

I just had this installed about two weeks ago. I have the doorbell camera mounted unprotected in the open and it has weathered some heavy rain and a little bit of hail in that time period and works the same as day one.My only gripe is that you can't use the "Browse" feature (let's use preview in live view for a few second to get a quick live video snapshot of what's happening in the field of view of the camera) unless it's hard wired. Not everyone may be mounting this directly into the doorbell wiring, for me, it services an entrance gate to my home which is away from the main door. I think there should be an option to enable this, even if running on battery power (which mine is). It should be up to the owner to decide if they want to drain the batteries away by using the browse feature at will.The range is decent but not stellar. Still, it is useful and I can have an interrupted conversation from my home which is up a long flight of stairs from the unit location and blocked by 1-2 walls. If I move to my kitchen 2-3 walls away, it gets choppy real quick and becomes nearly unusable.It has a feature that captures a photo of whomever rings your doorbell - very neat.I have no feedback on longevity yet, but I will definitely come back to this review if I experience any problem soon. I would give it 5 stars if it had a little bit better range and allowed the user to use all features regardless of setup.

Bought this product more than a year ago, but didn't install it until we finished the forced-on-renovation of our home. Once I installed it and went to charge the receiver, I noticed that it became very hot. After a day in the charger - there was no picture, no sound, NOTHING!!! Just a very HOT unit. I opened the battery cover and indeed it was real HOT.So- I called up Optex, the manufacturer- to find out what could be the reason and what to do. But, their technical service rep refused to deal with me. He said I should call the seller whom I bought the unit from. I insisted that this their product and they should at least, try to let me know what could be the reason for this problem - and was refused!!Later in the day I called back again to talk with another rep (which was a bit nicer) and I asked him if the battery could be the problem - he sort of agreed, but could not explain how come that a new battery that was never used and just charged would be a faulty one. OK. Then I asked him if they could sell me a new battery and the answer was: NO. Why?.. because this is an old product!!! (more than 2 years !...ha ha) and they don't serve this product any longer and they DO NOT carry any more the battery for it. Just like that!! Now they are promoting the iVision +. The fact they I bought this unit just a little more than a year ago didn't matter.So, here I'm with a unit that is not operational; that - if my diagnosis is correct - I need to buy a replacement battery. It'll be an off-market one from Canada with a cost of about $23+ $10 shipping. Whooping $33!!! I'm hoping that the battery is at fault and not the entire unit (as some reviews claimed this is not a very recommend product).RECOMMENDATION :----DO NOT buy this product, since you'll get no service for it. It's an OLD system and bad customer service.And for AMAZON : Please put a disclaimer about this product that " IT IS NOT a new product!! and that the manufacturer will not stand behind its product and will NOT service it!!!"YOU BUY IT ON YOUR RISK!!! Be warrant!!!

This thing is great! After getting quotes from local alarm dealers I decided to look in to this because it was hundreds of dollars cheaper than what I was quoted for wired systems. I was a little unsure if this would work since I live in a 4 story row home but after getting it setup it works just fine. My only complaint is that when people press the button it only rings on the unit itself. It would be nice if it would also send a signal to the rest of the doorbells in my house as well.What I did then is put my original doorbell button right below this unit, spliced in to the same doorbell wire. When people see this unit, most of the time they press the regular doorbell since it's not immediately noticeable on the unit where the button is. Using this setup all of my doorbells ring which alerts me to somebody outside. Then I just go to the remote viewer and press the answer button to activate the camera. The security this provides me and my wife is excellent because my front door does not have a viewing hole to see who's outside.Setup was a cinch too! All you have to do is remove your old door bell, mount the bracket, and attach the wires to this unit. Then put the unit in to the bracket and lock it in via a screw on the bottom and you're set! If you want to plug in your original door bell like I did, just get any thin wire and attach the additional wire to the back of this unit and run the wire to your old door bell. Should work just fine. Since this works off of low voltage wiring, it's also nice that you don't have to mess around with fuses and such at your fuse box during installation.

Back then this was like having the iPhone 11 Pro Max

hard to setup

I have had the unit for about a year and I love it. Picture quality is great. Even the night pictures are decent.

Awesome! Love it. This is our 2nd one. The first one got hit by lightening a couple of years in..