Video doorbell system with two-wire, new construction

But Berlin was apparently always different in the GDR as well. I haven't met anyone who spoke well of it here.

Sure, in the end, you just don't feel like it anymore, that happened to me too. But what I still don't understand... why do some manufacturers get crystal clear images via WLAN, while others only get static...

What I just can't really understand... I watch media libraries in HD over Wi-Fi in hotels... why shouldn't a doorbell be capable of sending a clean HD image via Wi-Fi to the router in the HAR, which is usually not even 5 meters in a straight line from the doorbell? I mean, maybe that's the case, but that's definitely not because of the Wi-Fi, but because of the manufacturer.

Guess: Maybe it's not just about quality, but also that Wi-Fi might fail more often than LAN?

In the hotel, there might be 3-4 meters and a drywall between you and the next access point. In the average Otto-normal house, the router is somewhere in the middle of the place, in the cupboard or even in the basement, and the topic of access points is usually not an issue. Add a metal front door and a thick wall, and the complaining is loud. THEN there is a problem because people just assume they have Wi-Fi. If you are sure beforehand that you will have sufficiently good Wi-Fi coverage outside (!), buy Wi-Fi doorbells.

Guess: Maybe it’s not just about quality, but also that Wi-Fi might fail more often than LAN?

Yes... then you can’t tell your postman to leave the package in the trash bin.
What worse could happen? These days, Wi-Fi networks can be quite well protected with a good password and MAC filtering.
A hacker would have to suspect pure gold in your house to bother cracking a 100-digit password and tricking a MAC filter. Won’t happen, unless you’re a CEO or engineer at KWM or Rheinmetall.

I hope you didn’t neglect passive security (security windows, for example) and now want to “compensate” for that with cameras...

I don’t know “average Joe.” Here, the HAR is located facing the street, usually right next to the hallway, and the front door is plastic.

But I also don’t see where it was asked what conditions are present for him. It immediately says, “Forget Wi-Fi, do LAN, tear everything up again if necessary, blah blah...”
And in the hotel, an access point every 3-4 meters? You don’t get around much, do you?

I'm glad to read that.

Thanks! It took a while, but now we're in the final stretch. :cool:

That is indeed alarmingly late, and surprises me (your architect is not even eighty yet). WLAN certainly was not invented to mask electricians' disinterest and/or incompetence.
Powerline is already not great, but the rule still basically is: "only an empty conduit is a good conduit." Opening up the plaster again should be a matter of honor for the architect (and is also more pleasant than going to his professional liability insurance wearing a penitential garb). Ring doorbell wiring is, in my opinion, clearly beyond the retro tolerance threshold. After all, one doesn’t go online with a mechanical typewriter …

I tried to outline the history.
At the time when this could have been easily clarified, we were not yet at the point of knowing what was all possible (I still am not quite sure even today). However, when the electrician was asked about it during the house walkthrough for planning purposes, he made no effort to explain alternatives to us. So I thought, WLAN will work anyway (probably something can be found if necessary). And now, when the installation will soon be necessary and I actually have time to inform myself, I realize that back then we should have had LAN installed. And that frustrates me.
But I still don’t quite understand what the architect should do there or what this has to do with his professional liability insurance? Would he really have been the actual contact person for that? And opening up the wall sounds more like a drastic measure...
I will first try to get the details about the empty conduit from the electrician.

And an access point every 3-4 meters in the hotel? You don’t get around much, do you?

Oh dear, go to proper hotels and look up at the ceiling in the hallway (if those things are even openly installed at all). I don’t need to argue with you about my mostly business-related travel activity :)

The core of the statement was: If there is good WLAN, it can work well. But there’s a reason for the saying "those who know wireless, choose cable".

I still don’t quite understand what the architect was supposed to do or what this has to do with his professional liability insurance?

Nothing at all. If architects and electricians aren’t interested and you had no clue or don’t have any, that’s just how it is. No one made a liability-worthy mistake here.