Kasa 2K Smart Video Doorbell Camera Hardwired w/Chime, KD110

This video doorbell checks a lot of want/need boxes when shopping such an item. First, the price point is great, especially if you can find it on sale or with a discount coupon. Second, it's easy to install and set up. Third, the video and sound quality are amazing with supurb picture quality during daylight hours, even at the lowest resolution setting, and a sensitive microphone which can capture sounds better than I could naturally hear. Fourth, there's a micro SD card slot which can locally store a lot of video content depending on the size of card inserted. The Kasa app on my phone is the main control hub and has decent interface and control features. There is no app to work it on my Fire Tablet, but it works with Alexa nicely and will show you the video feed on the Fire tablet if you ask Ms A to show you the camera. Night vision is not bad, maybe 5 feet of good resolution video with the infrared light. The best feature is the local SD card storage. You can pull up days of video at will on your phone. You don't have to rely on paid cloud storage, your video is available as long as the SD card has storage; it will replace the oldest recordings with new video as storage runs low. I'm not sure about archiving video for later use, I think that is available on paid cloud subscriptions, however I've read that you can pull the SD card and save it on your computer, but I haven't needed or tried it yet. Only annoying thing is the quite sensitive motion detection. It will alert me of motion on sunny and breezy days as the trees and shadows sway around the yard. I have minorly tweaked with the capture area and sensitivity and could adjust it more, but just ignore most notifications. I'm very happy with this video doorbell because of its great picture and sound, features, local storage, and no need to pay for a monthly service to review video.

This is one of the best video doorbell cameras. I'm a locksmith and security system specialist, and I test every device I sell. I have tried most major brands and some cheap versions, and this has the best video quality, super-fast alerts, and reliable motion detection. And never needed to reset it. Additionally, this device has an SD slut for local storage, so you don't have to subscribe to any monthly services. Highly recommend for a low-budget, high-quality video doorbell. The attached picture is a direct screenshot from the doorbell, taken at almost 8pm while I was writing this review.

UPDATE: while the camera is Okay, latest version of the Kasa app is horrible. It often shows the doorbell offline, despite the fact that it's actually online. You have to go to the recordings history, filter your cameras to show only the doorbell, then click Watch Live from there. And it shows up in the main app list of cameras as online. This is very inconvenient. Application quality controls are poor, knocking off one star for that.. I have a few other Kasa camera products, and extensively use their cloud subscription. So it was a relatively easy choice for me to continue using their products with this doorbell. Pros: - installation was easy. Took about 10 minutes. - doorbell ring is loud. - angled frame is nice: I positioned the camera to look exactly at my porch entrance / staircase. - good video quality. - nice Christmas spirit jingle bells melody configured by default. Cons: - this camera and other Kasa product may experience occasional WiFi connectivity issues.. It's like the doorbell is actually online and recording, but Kasa app shows as if it's offline!! This is is quite annoying. Happens a few times a week. I had this happening with other Kasa cameras too. - $100 a year cloud subscription for 10 devices is a bit expensive, in my opinion.. But I'm still paying for that for the 2nd year in a row now. It's mostly alright, and it's mostly working when needed. - unfortunately you can't use your old / existing chime. Must use the new chime that comes in the kit. There are several ringtones to select from.

This Kasa camera is the 3rd or 4th camera I have given a try. I had tried both battery operated and hard wired. The idea of having to replace or charge the batteries every few months turned me away from the battery operated cameras. I have an older Condo and had to purchase a new transformer in order to power this Kasa. I almost didn't try it because the doorbell transformer is tucked up inside a small laundry closet and was heck to get access to... and even then I had to do most of the work with my left hand. Anyway, this old dude managed somehow. When I went to hook up the camera the instructions told me to look for a blinking orange light to confirm I was getting power. Well, all I could see was a white circle light and it was not blinking. I contacted customer service and they walked me through the process a couple of times and I still only saw the white circle light. The CS rep finally said something to the effect of... "You are looking at the small LED light at the top, right?" Well... with my old eyeballs I had never even seen or noticed that itty bitty thing. Once the light was confirmed blinking I was up and running. When I removed my doorbell cover there was a large hole in the wall behind it that was larger than the base of the camera body. I went to Michael's and bought a $2 oval wood piece and painted it. I had to drill holes for the screws and the wires but that part was easy. It has been about a month since installation and I have to give this camera 5 STARS. I'm sure it is not the best one out there... but for $45 it does remarkably well. It makes no sense to me at all to pay for remote storage of 'MY' video. For starters, I think just by having the camera light up when someone approaches is a pretty good deterrent to someone with ulterior motives. I get a notice within 3 seconds if I am on WiFi and maybe 10 or 12 seconds when I am away. This gives plenty of time to speak to someone through the unit... or to use one of the handful of recorded messages. When large trucks or vans go by I usually get a false alert... but I don't find it to be much of a nuisance as I don't live on a major street. The software does allow you to outline the 'active' areas but I have not found that it makes much of a difference. If desired, you have the option to pay a small monthly fee for storage (much less than some others) but you also have the option to insert a Micro SD card, which is what I did. As I understand it, the old video gets replaced to make room for the more recent video. Someone was complaining of this in their review but I find it to be brilliant. If there is a 'serious' event that takes place I can always remove the SD card and copy that file to my computer. But... at least i don't have to remove the SD card every month or so to clear it out for the new data. I haven't had a chance to check out the night visions as our HOA turns all of the porch lights on automatically with a light sensor... but in my case, even with the porch light glaring in, the view is very acceptable. I actually think that this company could give 'R#*G' a run for their money. The quality is pretty great (especially at this price point), the subscription service is much lower... AND they allow you the option for local storage. Who would pay two or three times as much for the other brand... and then have to pay out a substantial amount of money over time in order to have access to your own video?! A bit of software upgrade and I'd give it 5 stars at twice this price... but as it is, I am not sure where I could have found a better value and still have my home 'protected'.

The instructions on to install this video doorbell, attach it to your 2.4G (which it requires, not 5G) Wi-Fi network, link it to the phone (Android in my case) app, and make the Bluetooth connection to the chime aren’t very clear. Especially the need to tightly time what you do when relative to the various colours of blinking lights in the front of it before they move on to the next step. However after several attempts and master ‘paper clip’ resets, I initially got it working at my desk. Later however when I actually installed it on the outside of the house, wired (including bypassing the house’s original chime), it had lost connectivity to the app. So I loosed it from the house (the reset is on the back) and did it all over again (out in the cold) and it worked again. A couple of hours later – gone again. So did the reset all over again and nothing. I then did a bit more in-depth troubleshooting – my router could see it and ping it, I could ping it from my phone too (with excellent numbers), so I don’t think it was dropping off due to Wi-Fi issues. E.g. distance. It just seemed like the app had ‘lost’ it as an available device. I had installed a SD card in it for local storage, so I pulled it back out, checked it in my PC, and there were tons of exactly 60-second videos on it. Which was a bit inconclusive. Also, interestingly enough, through all of this the actual ringing of its remote chime when the button was pushed worked. So I contacted Kasa’s (actually TP-Link) tech support via a chat window, and not too surprisingly they initially wanted to talk me through all the reset stuff I had already done three times. I told them about my being able to ping it all the way from my phone and they then concluded the camera itself was defective. They said they would send me instructions on how to return it to them for a warranty replacement. Which seemed a bit strange to me as this looked more like an app issue instead of a camera hardware issue. I later received an email from them asking me to send them proof of purchase, country where I am (Canada), and photo of the on the box serial number, which I did. Later more I received another email from them, contradicting the prior one, saying because it was less than 30-days old, rather than they warranty replacing it, I should return it to the seller (Amazon) for a refund. Huh?? They only warranty it if it’s MORE THAN 30-days old?? Whaaaat? So I did just that and that ended of my experience with Kasa. Back to shopping for a video doorbell.

10/10/26 updated review. Received email reply from the company pretty quick next day. They indicated that their Kasa app does not have the ability to share, but that I could use the Tapo app and add the doorbell camera there and share it. So basically the doorbell can be set up using one of two apps. I guess TP link and Kasa are related companies not sure. In any case I shared the camera. After using this doorbell,two days, I am amazed with the speed of which the camera and the app connect to each other. With my other doorbell camera it seemed like it took forever for me to connect and see who was at the door by the time I older equipment connected the person would be gone. This one to two seconds and I’m connected. So I upgraded to five star. Not giving it a five because on the app itself, there is no way to share. I sent an email to the company because they indicate you can share it but this no tab for that on the app. Other than that, it was a quick install, they provide a jump cable for the existing doorbell. Since it does not work with it. But it comes with its own Bluetooth doorbell. I put it on an angle with the provided backplate. Because my doorbell is not centered.

The Kasa Smart Doorbell camera is adequate given the cost. If you do not need more than basic camera functions and processing software and just want to see who is outside it will do the job. It is easy to install using your conventional door bell (16-24 VAC) wiring. Do not forget to short the conventional bell chime with the provided jumper wire. The included separate chime paired well and works fine. The device is bulky when compared to other doorbell cameras but I do not consider this a significant drawback. The camera is adequate, but the sensitivity adjustments and activity zone do not work well, and even with ‘motion sensitivity’ 2 (min is 1) and ‘record motion that lasts at least’ 4 sec (max is 5 sec) the software records events for people and passing cars that are at least 8 feet outside the active zone. It even records precipitation events once in a while. In addition, I have another major criticism. I guess, that many people, like me, have bought or consider buying this doorbell camera for the advertised feature of micro SD card slot that can be used to record video and audio on a SD card and keep it all private. No less important for probably all these customers is that they do not want to subscribe and pay to Kasa in order to have access to recording of events. However, it looks almost intentional that the developers of the doorbell camera firmware provide very crude and low quality firmware to use for the SD card recording. For one, there is only one option to record continuously 24/7. There is no option to record the events only, if desired. The 720 resolution is very coarse. The 1024 is acceptable for better look at the persons and the scenery, but the 128GB card I put was filled 100% in about 25 days. In addition, when recording, it is almost impossible to see what happens during an event immediately after it takes place - it shows up as an event in the recording later. On top of that, scrolling the recording has a step of 5 minutes, ie ,xx:05:00, xx:10:00, …. There is absolutely no reason not to provide firmware that can do a better job. I am left with the impression that the CD card recording is provided as a teaser to get customers to subscribe for a paid access to recording and viewing events. 30 March 2023 Update We have been using the Kasa Smart Doorbell Camera (KD110) for 2 months now. It has been working fine so far, but I have new observations about the use of the SD card. The first time it filled up I reformatted it, which deleted everything on the card and started 24/7 recording again. I also reduced the resolution from 1024 to 720, reduced the sensitivity to 1, increase the min motion time to 5 sec and even reduced the active zone a bit more. All these changes did not make much of a difference from what I reported in my original review including using the complete SD storage space (128 GB or more accurately in computer terms the available113GB) in about 25 days. However, when the card got full again I decided not to reformat to see what will happen. The card kept recording 24/7 and marking events to review but every day it lost the data from the oldest recorded day. In other words, it appears that now I have a rolling window of about the last 25 days of recordings. This is much better and I hope this is what the developers had in mind and provided with their firmware. I still find the 5-min steps in viewing continuous recordings unacceptably large. 4 May 2023 2nd Update Here is my latest observations about micro SD card recording storage: = 18 to 25 days starting with an empty SD card or after reformatting depending on the selected resolution: Video Quality 720P, 1k(1080P), 2K(2304x1296). = after the SD card is reported full it continues to record and for 1k resolution: provides access to the last 12 days of events and the 24/7data 2k resolution: last 10 days (this may not be very accurate since I recently switched to 2k)

The Kasa Smart Video Doorbell Camera is packed with features. A beautiful camera that records in up to 2K video. The motion detection and optional sound detection are great. There is no “bubble effect” with this camera either. The night vision does a great job. As with other doorbell cameras, you can adjust the activity zone to pick up motion in the areas you want. The motion and sound sensitivity can be adjusted also. It has two-way audio that’s pretty decent for the overall cost of this doorbell camera. It also has preset responses you can choose to use when needing to speak to a visitor or intruder. Notifications can be activated to receive them on your phone or tablet. The doorbell button LED or status LED can be turned on or off also. The biggest feature that attracted me to this doorbell cam was that it doesn’t require a subscription to save video. You can install up to a 124GB mini SD card to store video. Of course, if you want to subscribe to Kasa Care you can more easily access your cameras video and it allows for 30 days of saved video for $3/mo. or $30/year for one camera. $10/mo. or $100/yr. for up to ten cameras. Otherwise you will have to use a screen recorder while playing your video to save it to your phone. The camera has a 24 hour continuous video recording option, so even when nothing is detected it will still be recording. This option can be very useful, but will fill the SD card quickly. The chime is good. It doesn’t have a huge variety of pre-loaded chimes, but it has a pretty decent selection. The doorbell can be paired with more than one chime at one time, but unfortunately I haven’t been able to find where an additional chime can be purchased separately. The only issue with the Kasa Smart Video Doorbell has been that it’s prone to disconnecting from the network quite frequently. I have been communicating with TP-link support due to this issue and they have been very helpful and responsive. Gaby at tech support is super! She was able to send me another Kasa Doorbell Camera very quickly after troubleshooting my original camera. Update: USE THE JUMPER WIRE! This is what is causing everyone's disconnecting issues! I skipped the jumper wire installation also and after receiving the new doorbell from Arlo Tech Support still had disconnecting issues. I did some more troubleshooting and found that the existing doorbell chime not only was buzzing, but the chime connected to the doorbell was randomly moving up and down. I then searched online to find out if the lack of a jumper wire being used could be the cause of all the issues. Bingo! The jumper wire allows for the doorbell camera to be fully charged by the doorbell transformer at all times. This is needed due to the power it requires to keep the camera functioning. Without the jumper wire, the electric current fluctuates to the doorbell and at times will not be enough to keep the camera operating properly or the wireless connection steady. Since installing the jumper wire all the issues cleared up and even the doorbell microphone sounds clearer. The wiring video in the Kasa app shows the jumper wire installation, but doesn't tell why or if it is needed. I have adjusted my star rating to 5 stars and highly recommend this affordable, feature packed video doorbell!

Muy buena opcion por el precio. Solo les recomiendo tener en consideración. 1. Se requiere un transformador de 110 v a 24 v 5000 mA. Asi viene specificado en la caja. 2. Graba continuo 24 hr y marca los eventos que seleccionaste en la configuracion. Se requiere una miro SD max 128 GB. Creo que no hay opcion como los TAPO que solo grabe los eventos importantes. 3. 1 año y medio y sigue trabajando muy bien. Esta bajo techo, no se ve desgastado. 4. Hay que tener paciencia con el envio. Se tardo mucho en llegar casi 10 d. El paquete llego en excelentes condiciones.

I purchased the Kasa KD110 Video Doorbell spring of 2023. It was a great purchase. I live in Southern Ontario, so the weather ranges from summer hot to winter cold. This device has worked great throughout it all. I had to replace the old typical door bell in our house. I pulled it all out. Ran a new power supply and hooked it all up. The door bell and the chime paired up immediately. Setup door bell using the Kasa app, got it connected to my wifi and was watching everything in front of my house in minutes. Installed a micro sd card and can review everything the camera sees. The image is decent for both daytime and nighttime viewing. The motion detection works well as does the person detection. Have had no issues with connecting to the camera from where ever I may be. The two-way audio works well enough. Would be great if they would add the ability to view the camera from a web browser on my computer.

Love you can use this product without paying. Great camera quality and love how it rings your phone like a call. Definitely recommend.

Me gustó mucho, funciona muy bien comparándolo vs el nest de google me gusta mucho que todo se almacena en la memoría interna, también el adapatador de timbre es muy bueno aunque es una lástima que no vendan por separado ya que necesito más. Lo que no he logrado es que me muestre en la pantalla de Alexa cuando alguien toca el dispositivo, creo que no te notifica de manera automática, pero da igual, para mi propósito con el chime que trae incluído me funciona perfecto.

I wanted to get a video doorbell that was cost effective and did 24/7 recording without paying for a subscription. This is the perfect solution for this. I bought a 128 GB micro SD card which I put into the back of this doorbell. Amazing how much storage fits on a little tiny card these days. I am very happy with it. Install was easy. The step by step instructions in the app are simple to follow and accurate. Took about 15 minutes to turn off power, take out old doorbell, bypass the ringer, screw in the adapter, connect doorbell, turn on power, and connect to wifi and format the SD card. There are a lot of options in the app for notifications, video quality, sounds, being able to have messages sent. My kids think the new doorbell is hilarious too. I like playing the message for them that they are trespassing and the police have been called. The video quality is quite excellent. Night vision is decent too. Hoping it lasts a long time because I am quite impressed. The AI that picks up when a person approaches the door and instant notifications work extremely well.