Ring doorbell live view issue
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UTH

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12,347 posts

208 months

Wednesday 10th February 2021
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Somewhat recently the 'live view' feature of my doorbell has become very intermittent.....75% of the time it'll just say "activating device" and never actually work, other 25% of the time it's fine.

The doorbell is the other side of glass door from the router, can't be more than 2m, and I have 60MBPS speed, so it can't be the connection/internet

Any ideas? I've deleted the app and reinstalled, no joy. And this thing has worked perfectly before.

CoolHands

23,597 posts

225 months

Wednesday 10th February 2021
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It’s cos they’re st

UTH

Original Poster:

12,347 posts

208 months

Wednesday 10th February 2021
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It was fine for years, did the job I wanted.

anonymous-user

84 months

Wednesday 10th February 2021
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Have you tried things like resetting your hub?

Mine used to be rubbish but has got better somehow.

UTH

Original Poster:

12,347 posts

208 months

Wednesday 10th February 2021
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El stovey said:
Have you tried things like resetting your hub?

Mine used to be rubbish but has got better somehow.
Yeah done that too. Guess I might try resetting the doorbell.

I hate it when tech just stops doing its job for no reason.

s p a c e m a n

12,124 posts

178 months

Wednesday 10th February 2021
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Delete the app from your phone and reinstall, have to do this occasionally with ours when it does weird stuff.

UTH

Original Poster:

12,347 posts

208 months

Wednesday 10th February 2021
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s p a c e m a n said:
Delete the app from your phone and reinstall, have to do this occasionally with ours when it does weird stuff.
Yep done that, no change.

dapprman

2,786 posts

297 months

Wednesday 10th February 2021
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I know the first thing the Ring call desk will say is 'factory reset the device' - this did fix some of the issues I originally had on mine and did improve the, still poor, speaker (for my voice). I suspect the next thing they will say is your router is too far away and facing the wrong direction, and should be painted bright pink until the end of February.