I have all of the appliances (stove/oven, dishwasher, refrigerator/freezer, washer/dryer, vacuum cleaner) that I need right now.
The only thing I can think of is that we’re going to replace our iphones at some point…probably try to wait until the new models come out. I usually buy those directly through tmobile. Will it make sense to buy them at BB?
You know what would be nice is some security cameras. (A “doorbell” one wouldn’t work since the door bell is off to the side.) Do they sell those that don’t require someone to come out and wire your house? …or that are so easy to install that even an ASA can do it?
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The doorbell is on the wall to the right, the one that intersects the door’s wall at π/2 radians:
If you don’t find anything that you need, it’ll come down to a choice between (something you want but don’t need) and (let the gift cards go to waste).
Blink and Ring both seem designed for DIY installation. Just pick one or the other to go with so you can expand them in the future under the same service. Looks like best buy has deals going on Ring today.
I don’t understand your comment on existing doorbell placement. If the angle isn’t great, you could make something to mount a new one on to change the angle or move it a bit. The cameras are usually wide angle, so you can see quite a bit regardless.
Many of the options are hard wired, you can replace an existing light with a security light. It’s wifi, the video goes into a cloud service, you can review event history. Other cameras might have a low voltage adapter you can run through a window, or it might run on a battery and be fully remote.
It’s like the electrician forgot to wire the doorbell and came back when half the drywall was up, so he just put it there.
You should be able to get the wire under the siding and over to the door frame pretty easily, and wire up a new ring doorbell.
I’d think a few youtube videos could help you manage popping out the siding it is on now and getting it back in to place. I have no real useful advice beyond that other than I saw someone do it once on my first house, and it looked really easy using the $8 tool the guy brought. Looks like you can probably get to most of what you need to by just popping out the first two feet or so from the wall. Hopefully you only have three small holes to fill in from the screw and wires in the existing doorbell, a tube of color matched or clear silicon could fill those in.
You could just wire up the new video doorbell there as well. It will still capture most of what happens on your front porch. Maybe you are happy enough with that and the 15 minutes it will take you to install it there. Obviously, make the decision on that before you poke more holes into the siding.
Not quite. The design of the window and door precludes the wiring of the doorbell on that side.
I’m thinking someone was designing it thinking “it’d be a real pain to do siding for a 2 or 3 inch width (between door and window), so let’s work it where that’s not a concern” and wasn’t thinking door bell placement.
