Best posts made by wisemanjaw

If the normal doorbells (black) had been set up so that they could be configured in corridor mode (like the WHITE doorbells), it never would have been necessary to have a totally different color doorbell to tell them apart. With that implementation, the customer could choose either color regardless of their implementation.

We have a very narrow archway before getting to our front door. As a result, I had to buy a WHITE doorbell. A BLACK doorbell would have looked far better in our entrance-way, but unfortunately the wide field of view with the BLACK doorbells just results in a massive amount of the IR light being reflected back at the doorbell camera from the walls, ceiling and floor. Also, since the vertical field of view of the black doorbells is more limited, most people have the tops of their heads cut off in the view due to how close they have to stand to the camera on our doorstep.

So in order to get the portrait format that I need, I have to use a white doorbell which aesthetically doesn't look as good. You should add the corridor mode to ALL doorbells regardless of their color.

BTW, the vertical format of the white doorbells provide good view of the floor in front of our door to reveal packages that the black doorbell doesn't provide.