Front door monitoring with IP camera at the entrance - ideas?

Of course I need this for the camera. But it should not be attached to the house wall. I am looking for a technical solution. For example, an IP camera to a tablet which might be activated via the doorbell.

We are having a Goliath 2 wire bus installed.

For example, IP camera to tablet which might be activated via the doorbell.

The IP camera then has to run all the time, otherwise it takes too long until it turns on and delivers an image.

I find the intercom system quite practical.

Hm, thanks for the explanation. For two-party houses where one lives "upstairs," it’s certainly a good thing for the upstairs party. I only know intercom systems in apartment buildings. Places where it’s too far to the door to decide whether you want to open or not. In a two-family house, one has Ding and the other Dong, so it’s clear who was rung for.

That people are afraid of "visitors" and therefore want to observe them unnoticed ... is a foreign world to me. But I also don’t understand why people bunker down here in the evening (all the roller shutters down).

I know it's OT, but it's been on my mind. Because my architects recently asked what kind of intercom system should be planned. And I was like, "Huh? Button with ding-dong and done." They looked at me as if I were from another planet.

Therefore my question: Why does one need an intercom system, even with video, in a single-family house? Or is it about closed gates in front of driveways?

Morning Alex,

the situation with the architects sounds familiar to me – albeit with swapped roles [emoji51]

After I was basically convinced that I don’t need door communication, the missus came up with a not entirely negligible point. With kids in the house, it might make sense to at least have an intercom system. For example, I don’t want them just opening the door without checking who is standing outside. The good old peephole serves for the optional video transmission...

Question to the group: has anyone put their doorbell system on a bus system or planned it?

Glass in/next to the door.

Children cannot reach the tablet in the wall nor the door viewer to see anything.