Lately a lot of our Mail has being undelivered due to being "no one home" but there's someone home all the time so the post office either isn't bothering or they're knocking like a fairy. As well as that, mail gets taken from the doorstep because we're in a bad area and the posties dont bother putting mail all the way under the door. The house is facing a main road right next to a tram stop in Melbourne top scummy areas, so my fear is if i get something nice like a "RING" brand system someone is going to rip it off the door or scratch it up, and if i get a basic doorbell people waiting at the tram stop will press it for fun at all hours of the night(we've had a doorbell there years ago and had that same issue). So i'm hoping the camera combo will not only encourage the postie to do their job, and maybe deter other unsavory characters from taking the mail or pressing the button.
Ideally i want to be able to set times at which the doorbell will even ring if that's possible, so say between 10am-5pm the doorbell works and the rest of the time its silent, that's something i could do with the ones that link to phones, but if there's one that does that natively that's even better. The other issue is making sure the thing isn't going to get ripped off the door or smashed, so a well built prison grade one, or one that has the option to be put into a sturdy box.
I'm open to other completely different solutions too,, just keep in mind,really bad area. (Bikies welcome)
TLDR: Postie isn't knocking,Druggies steal mail and press doorbell while waiting for tram. Smart doorbell/camera solution needed.
Try a wireless motion doorbell.