- Suitable for peepholes from 14 mm to 50 mm in diameter
- Wireless operation and local microSD storage
- UK & Europe: £159 / €249
If you’d like a smart video doorbell but don’t have anywhere to put one – or permission from your landlord to make permanent changes – then the new EP4 door viewer from EZVIZ looks like an excellent alternative. It’s a smart video camera that delivers all the key features of the best video doorbells, but instead of screwing it into the door, frame or wall, you simply replace the door’s existing peephole.
Because it is wireless and requires no additional assembly, if you move elsewhere in the future, you can simply take it out and put the original peephole back in.
There is another important advantage here: EP4 supports local storage. If, like me, you’re trying to avoid signing up for yet another subscription service, that’s a big plus.
EZVIZ EP4 Wireless Peephole Door Viewer: what it does, what it costs and where to get it
The EZVIZ EP4 comes in two sections: the camera and the display screen. The camera is designed to replace peepholes between 14mm and 50mm in diameter, so it should fit most existing peephole doors, and it has a 7,100mAh rechargeable battery so you won’t be recharging it every few weeks. My video doorbell’s battery is 5,000 mAh and I usually get two months out of it on a fairly busy street.
The camera streams 4K video to the portable viewer, which has a 5.5-inch touchscreen. There’s a live view and a two-way talk mode, AI-powered facial recognition, human shape recognition and infrared detection, and you can customize the detection sensitivity so it doesn’t alert you to irrelevant passers-by. Local storage is via microSD card, with support for cards up to 512GB.
The camera has a wide field of view of 155 to 160 degrees with automatic distortion correction so your visitors don’t look like they’re auditioning to be in an emo band’s video. There’s no night vision here, although that shouldn’t be a problem for interior doors in apartment blocks and similar spaces.
EZVIZ sells through Amazon and the EP4 is available now for an RRP of £159.99 on Amazon UK.
In Europe RRP is €249, but I can already see it being reduced to €189. Pricing and availability for the US and Australia have not been announced yet.
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