Almost everyone starts with the doorbell, and almost nobody stops to think about the rest of the property until something happens at the side gate. We fit a lot of Eufy across Dublin and Leinster, and the jobs that actually protect a house are the ones that cover the driveway, the rear garden and the side passage, not just the front step. Here is how we put a whole Eufy system together, what each piece does, and the three bundles we fit most often.
The front door is the easy bit
A doorbell tells you who is at the front door. That is useful, and the Eufy Video Doorbell E340 does it well. But the front door is the one part of the house a burglar is least likely to use, because it is the most visible. The break-ins and the near-misses we hear about happen at the side gate of a semi-D, the patio door on a rear extension, or the garden office with a laptop in it. Covering those is what turns a doorbell into actual home security.
The Floodlight Cam E340, the workhorse
The piece that does most of the work outside the front door is the Eufy Floodlight Cam E340. It is a dual-camera unit on a 360 degree pan-tilt head, so it follows movement across the whole drive rather than staring at one fixed spot, and it has two bright motion-activated floodlights. On an Irish driveway in November, the light itself is half the value. A well-lit drive with a camera that visibly turns to track someone is a far better deterrent than a discreet lens nobody notices.
It is mains powered. The cleanest fit is where it replaces an existing outdoor light, because the power is already there. Where there is no existing light point, we run a feed, which is a bit more work. Both situations are priced clearly on the product page before you book.
The S380 HomeBase, where it all records
The piece people do not know they need is the S380 HomeBase. It is a small hub that sits inside the house and holds the recordings for every Eufy device on the system, locally, with no monthly fee. There are three reasons we put one in on any multi-device job.
First, storage. One HomeBase holds far more footage than the chips inside individual cameras, and you are not paying a cloud bill for it. Second, resilience. The recordings live indoors, so if a camera is stolen or knocked offline, the footage it already captured is safe on the hub. Third, signal. The HomeBase helps tie the cameras together reliably, which matters in a typical Irish build where thick walls and foil-backed insulation chew through Wi-Fi. Every one of our multi-camera Eufy bundles includes the S380 for exactly these reasons.
The three bundles we fit most
Rather than make you guess, we package the common setups. You can see all three on the Eufy home bundles page, each supplied, installed, linked and tuned in one visit.
Driveway and Garden. The Video Doorbell E340 at the door plus a Floodlight Cam on the drive, recording to an S380 HomeBase. This is the most popular first proper system, front door and the most-used approach to the house covered together.
Whole Home. The doorbell plus two Floodlight Cams, front and rear, on the HomeBase. This is the one for a house where the back garden, a side return or a rear extension needs covering as well as the drive. One visit, the full perimeter.
Eldercare. The doorbell with a plug-in Chime and the S380 HomeBase, set up to be as simple as possible. More on that next.
The eldercare setup
The Eldercare bundle is built for older relatives and the family who help them. The point is not more cameras, it is less faff. The plug-in Chime rings loudly inside the house the moment someone is at the door, with no phone to unlock and no app to open, which is the single biggest barrier for an older user. The HomeBase keeps everything recorded at home with no monthly bill to manage, and family members can be added to the app so they can check in or see who called. It is a small, calm system rather than a wall of screens.
When there is no power out there
Sometimes the spot that needs a camera has no power and no easy way to run one. A shed at the end of the garden, a gate down a side passage, an outbuilding. For those, a wired floodlight cam is the wrong tool, and a solar-powered camera is the right one. Solar siting depends on how much sky the panel can actually see through an Irish winter, so we quote those individually rather than list a flat price. If that is your situation, get in touch and we will work out what will hold a charge where you need it.
How we scope it
The best way to get a whole-property setup right is to let us look at the property. On a free consultation we walk the outside of the house, find the blind spots, check where the power and the Wi-Fi actually reach, and tell you which bundle fits and what it costs, with no obligation. If you already know you want a single device to start, you can pick a doorbell or a camera on the Eufy installation page and add to it later. Everything Eufy we fit keeps your footage at home and carries no monthly fee, whether it is one doorbell or the full perimeter.