Ring WiFi Doorbell
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I have the ring pro doorbell cam that runs off the existing doorbell wiring and works with the existing chime. Already caught a parcel theif with it. Tied in with a smart door lock, it’s been great to see and speak to the postie, unlock the porch door, have them put the parcel inside, and then lock the door again.
I also have a ring spotlight wired monitoring the driveway/garage. This seems to work well also.
I found that the key to good performance with them is solid WiFi outside house, and a low latency internet connection with a solid upload speed.
I also have a ring spotlight wired monitoring the driveway/garage. This seems to work well also.
I found that the key to good performance with them is solid WiFi outside house, and a low latency internet connection with a solid upload speed.
jmorgan said:
Will this new "General Data Protection Regulation" be an issue here? The one that comes in 1 May.
DELETED: Comment made by a member who's account has been deleted. I am just a consumer of the end product and with no knowledge of the industry hence the questions. Concerned that certain people could see a way to make money out of this.
Will try to make heads or tails of the rest later.
Edit. Mine has started playing up anyway.
Edit 2.
https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/cctv-on-your-pro...
OK, not aware of this. ^^^^^^
Edited by jmorgan on Monday 23 April 06:44
Edited by jmorgan on Monday 23 April 06:47
Right. Think I just found that digging in the rules. There is also something on capturing audio must be disabled, that is as conversations etc. which can happen.
Motion sensor is set to go off within my boundary but external to that is captured when it does and there is no way to exclude that. Drop the unit to negate that and it is useless.
Recent few reliability and functional issues as well, think I am out.
Motion sensor is set to go off within my boundary but external to that is captured when it does and there is no way to exclude that. Drop the unit to negate that and it is useless.
Recent few reliability and functional issues as well, think I am out.
Sheepshanks said:
Everyone with a dashcam better register then. 
(not rolling eyes at you, but at the notion a video doorbell, or indeed any home CCTV, should be registered).
DELETED: Comment made by a member who's account has been deleted. (not rolling eyes at you, but at the notion a video doorbell, or indeed any home CCTV, should be registered).AJB88 said:
is the £89 one sufficient to be used basically to alarm you off 3am visitors? seen a few posts recently of people catching people and fancy one myself!
Downside is that you'll get alerts to your phone if it triggers during the night, if you set the doorbell to snooze overnight it doesn't record anything. I haven't looked into doing something on the phone to just stop the alerts at night, there's probably some way of doing that?
AJB88 said:
is the £89 one sufficient to be used basically to alarm you off 3am visitors? seen a few posts recently of people catching people and fancy one myself!
It will depend on where your house is, our front door is hidden from the road and you have to go through a gate to get into the property, so it if does activate it normally means there is someone there.However, if your door looks onto a road or path, it will go off every time someone or something goes passed the door.
And yes, we have the one which now retails for £89.00 and it works perfectly.
ooo000ooo said:
Downside is that you'll get alerts to your phone if it triggers during the night, if you set the doorbell to snooze overnight it doesn't record anything.
Really? The Ring standalone cameras will still trigger and record, even if they're snoozed. You just don't get a notification.ManOpener said:
Really? The Ring standalone cameras will still trigger and record, even if they're snoozed. You just don't get a notification.
D'oh, went and checked on my ring recordings on the website and there are some recordings at night although it looks like I live in a very quiet street 
I've got the cheapo one you can set the sensitivity of alerts and the zones its monitors so its pretty flexible. My main issue is the misses has two cats they set it off a lot, I get alerts when Im at work and its the cat on the door step. I've got mine at toddler height still get full view out but also lets my 2 year old press the button when he gets home from nursery and then he shouts 'dadddyyyy'
What I would say though is the camera quality isn't great, I looked at my mates Ring 2 and quality was so much better.
What I would say though is the camera quality isn't great, I looked at my mates Ring 2 and quality was so much better.
dvs_dave said:
I have the ring pro doorbell cam that runs off the existing doorbell wiring and works with the existing chime. Already caught a parcel theif with it. Tied in with a smart door lock, it’s been great to see and speak to the postie, unlock the porch door, have them put the parcel inside, and then lock the door again.
I also have a ring spotlight wired monitoring the driveway/garage. This seems to work well also.
I found that the key to good performance with them is solid WiFi outside house, and a low latency internet connection with a solid upload speed.
Could you link the smart door lock that works with the Ring please? I also have a ring spotlight wired monitoring the driveway/garage. This seems to work well also.
I found that the key to good performance with them is solid WiFi outside house, and a low latency internet connection with a solid upload speed.
Had one a few weeks now (ring2)
Couple of issues.
Even though it's hard wired it's still draining the battery had to charge it twice already.
Also it's struggling with wifi traffic tried mucking about with the router with little success so some of the recordings can be a bit stuttery.
Need to spend some more time with it as my broadband speed seems to have ground to a halt don't know if the ring has something to do with it it more than likely.
Couple of issues.
Even though it's hard wired it's still draining the battery had to charge it twice already.
Also it's struggling with wifi traffic tried mucking about with the router with little success so some of the recordings can be a bit stuttery.
Need to spend some more time with it as my broadband speed seems to have ground to a halt don't know if the ring has something to do with it it more than likely.
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