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Video Doorbell Pro Portrait Mode
As the Title states, this would be great. Current Landscape mode give me a lot of either side of my house, but not my porch. You know, where all the packages are left!! Yes, I've tried putting a wedge to point the camera down, but only gives so much. No, I don't want to add another camera. As a point of reference, the google doorbell we replaced (which came with the house, worked well, but wanted us to subscribe to get more than 3 hours of events), had a great view because the orientation was portrait (and they seemed to have a bit more of a fish eye lense).
Very happy with Simplisafe as a whole, but can do better on this one.
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davey_d
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5.7K Messages
2 months ago
Hi @MarkHanson ,
Thanks for your suggestion. Sounds like what you're asking for is a vertically oriented camera view, so it's able to capture a lot more of what's below while still keeping an eye on approaching intruders.
Unfortunately, installing the current Video Doorbell Pro sideways isn't a great idea because the built-in motion sensor is already set up pointed downwards. That means if you turn the camera 90º, the detection field would be sideways at an awkward (and probably not-as-useful) angle. So if we were to implement this idea, we'd need to develop a whole new camera.
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emily_s
Community Admin
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3.3K Messages
3 months ago
Hi @MarkHanson,
Thanks for this suggestion! We will pass along this idea to our devs for their consideration.
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dlpsr
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2 months ago
@MarkHanson Etsy. SimpliSafe video doorbell mounts.
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