Staying with Ring Doorbell?

I guess anything is possible, and it just depends if you class £49.99 a year as being something worth spending to have videos stored just in case.

A recent example would be my thread from a few weeks ago when I received a parking charge notice from a car park operator demanding £90 from me: https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

It was an error with their ANPR system.

I went back to them and told them to sod off as I had date/time stamped Ring footage of the car entering my driveway, and being parked on my driveway during the times they claimed it was parked in the car park. They cancelled the charge notice, but other people who had exactly the same thing happen to them, by the same parking operators, have been pursued all the way to court for the money, as they didn't have any Ring/CCTV recordings as proof of their cars whereabouts.

Now this is a very obscure example, which I would never even have thought of, but it happened, and stored Ring footage from the previous weeks came to the rescue.

Another example from me would be the time I was expecting two large (£150 each) garden pots/planters delivered. I got home to only find one on my drive. Called the garden centre and they refused to accept that anything less than 2 had been delivered because their pallet delivery company said so. My Ring had captured the activity of the delivery via motion detection (they didn't ring the bell) and I sent the footage to the garden centre showing only one pot being offloaded and left. They then obviously apologised and sent the other one.

As Kev says, it could be something else like a dishonest courier puts a parcel by your front door, takes a photo of it as proof of delviery, then picks it up and walks off with it again. This has happened to people absolutely loads in the past, and mostly these thieves have been caught via Doorbell recordings, which were checked later in the day/week after the customer realised something had gone wrong and their parcel had not arrived.

I think 30 days of storage would be more than enough, but if you get 180 days, why not use it?

It is only my opinion, but £50 a year seems peanuts to have stored video in case you ever need it.

Adding to above, I think having a video doorbell actively dissuades people from doing naughty things as they know they are being videoed. Obviously you don’t need a subscription to achieve this but these saved videos have come in very useful in the past when I have been away from home and not picked up the notification of someone at the door until later.

I bought the battery powered one and had read they don't last very long before it needs charging. So far, after 1 month, it's down to 80%, so that would mean around 5 months, which seems quite good.