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So are the rings doorbells genuinely crap, I have almost created peak laziness in my house with almost everything being automated but still have to get up to answer the door, I have a new fangled TV with alexa built in which gets all sorts of notifications from all over my house and will pop up with an image of someone at my door if I had the doorbell.
Are they really that bad?
Are they really that bad?
Sheets Tabuer said:
So are the rings doorbells genuinely crap, I have almost created peak laziness in my house with almost everything being automated but still have to get up to answer the door, I have a new fangled TV with alexa built in which gets all sorts of notifications from all over my house and will pop up with an image of someone at my door if I had the doorbell.
Are they really that bad?
They are.Are they really that bad?
Admittedly I had one of the first gen ones but they are so reliant on environment variables that they are more than frustrating. By the time you connect to it when the door goes the visitor has got bored and moved on.
I fancy one of the blink external cameras as they apparently have a 2 year!! battery life and I have something i'd like to document at the house that's fairly well concealed and records audio. But I don't think you can buy the cameras on their own, I think they need a base station and mesh network to do their thing.
Davie_GLA said:
Sheets Tabuer said:
So are the rings doorbells genuinely crap, I have almost created peak laziness in my house with almost everything being automated but still have to get up to answer the door, I have a new fangled TV with alexa built in which gets all sorts of notifications from all over my house and will pop up with an image of someone at my door if I had the doorbell.
Are they really that bad?
They are.Are they really that bad?
Admittedly I had one of the first gen ones but they are so reliant on environment variables that they are more than frustrating. By the time you connect to it when the door goes the visitor has got bored and moved on.
I fancy one of the blink external cameras as they apparently have a 2 year!! battery life and I have something i'd like to document at the house that's fairly well concealed and records audio. But I don't think you can buy the cameras on their own, I think they need a base station and mesh network to do their thing.
The main issue is that some people don’t realise that having 10 plus Wi-Fi devices connected to the 99p router provided free of charge by the ISP on a 2mbit connection isn’t really going to cut it.
Don’t bother buying devices if you can’t be arsed to spend on the infrastructure that serves it.
shopper150 said:
I don’t think they are bad.
The main issue is that some people don’t realise that having 10 plus Wi-Fi devices connected to the 99p router provided free of charge by the ISP on a 2mbit connection isn’t really going to cut it.
Don’t bother buying devices if you can’t be arsed to spend on the infrastructure that serves it.
Also have a very robust network with most high demand devices hard wired over dedicated switching. I placed the doorbell side by side to my (a little more expensive, at £1.49 component parts) router and tested it. It of course has to connect to Amazons networks to come back to your phone and serve up the experience while at the same time trying to ring the chimes. The main issue is that some people don’t realise that having 10 plus Wi-Fi devices connected to the 99p router provided free of charge by the ISP on a 2mbit connection isn’t really going to cut it.
Don’t bother buying devices if you can’t be arsed to spend on the infrastructure that serves it.
They did work better when Amazon weren't the owners but that's semantics i guess.
shopper150 said:
Davie_GLA said:
Sheets Tabuer said:
I have a new fangled TV with alexa built in which gets all sorts of notifications from all over my house and will pop up with an image of someone at my door if I had the doorbell.
Are they really that bad?
They are.Are they really that bad?
Don’t bother buying devices if you can’t be arsed to spend on the infrastructure that serves it.
Maybe some people want Nasa style satellite technology for their doorbell for Duplo prices.
It does the basic job well.
Davie_GLA said:
shopper150 said:
I don’t think they are bad.
The main issue is that some people don’t realise that having 10 plus Wi-Fi devices connected to the 99p router provided free of charge by the ISP on a 2mbit connection isn’t really going to cut it.
Don’t bother buying devices if you can’t be arsed to spend on the infrastructure that serves it.
Also have a very robust network with most high demand devices hard wired over dedicated switching. I placed the doorbell side by side to my (a little more expensive, at £1.49 component parts) router and tested it. It of course has to connect to Amazons networks to come back to your phone and serve up the experience while at the same time trying to ring the chimes. The main issue is that some people don’t realise that having 10 plus Wi-Fi devices connected to the 99p router provided free of charge by the ISP on a 2mbit connection isn’t really going to cut it.
Don’t bother buying devices if you can’t be arsed to spend on the infrastructure that serves it.
They did work better when Amazon weren't the owners but that's semantics i guess.
shopper150 said:
Noted, they are not without their limitations. But I would rather have one than not. Works well most of the time for me. Component parts of my router are £1.99!
Right. That's it.I've just put 50p on top of the router! Will work fine now
it is subjective though but I think the point I was (badly) trying to make is that your internal network can be the bees knees (which is better than NASA, obv) - but if your internet connection is for whatever reason slow then the app itself becomes the limiting factor.
Davie_GLA said:
Every time Amazon do these days, black Friday, prime day etc. i genuinely can't find anything I need.
I would not be welcome on the frivolous thread...
Know what you mean. I would not be welcome on the frivolous thread...
However I don’t look for stuff I need but instead keep watching for kids birthday gifts and Xmas gifts & also for the wife. So far bought nothing
Unbusy said:
Having just seen the news it seems that hanging around certain council tips will yield some nice gear.
It’s a crazy world when Amazon can dump so much gear. Actually it’s a crime against the planet.
Gggrrrr etc.
Just scrolling through the endless list of Prime offers and seeing all the cheap Chinese tat it doesn’t surprise me one bit that some of it ends up in landfill. It’s a crazy world when Amazon can dump so much gear. Actually it’s a crime against the planet.
Gggrrrr etc.
IT Geek said:
I wanted to replace my dead HomePod and was hoping to see the Echo Studio on the Prime Day list, but it’s not reduced. 
If someone is good and popular why reduce it...I took a quick look and nothing jumped out. Where a decent product was reduced, it is the unpopular colours or version.
Unless you get lucky, it's just Amazon getting lots of publicity for themselves and impulse buyers buying things they didn't need.
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