Ring - Battery Doorbell

I bought a house with ring cameras on the exterior and as the door bell. I've never like them and this has pushed me over the edge. They are all coming out.

I’ve been using Ring with Homebridge for a couple years. It works great. I even have automations that turn on my lights when Ring disarms and stuff. It’s seamless.

Ring is the worst doorbell overpriced shit quality poor integration and poor build quality. Plus the subscription is so dumb. Wish ubiquity integrated better because it’s the best doorbell by leaps nd bounds

You’ll want a battery powered doorbell camera. Eufy, Wyze, Blink, etc. nearly all of them either the manufacturer or a third party make mounts for renters. IMHO stay away from ring (I just ditched mine after 5 years), they recently announced that they no longer require law enforcement to obtain a warrant for video from your doorbell.

I have a battery powered Ring and a hardwired Logitech Doorbell. I can get a notification, open the app and speak to the person on Ring before I ever get the initial notification from Logitech/Homekit. I keep Logitech just for the additional camera angle. But I could new depend on a timely notification.

The wired one doesn’t have a battery and won’t work with your home doorbell. You you need a power adapter or make sure you have the appropriate voltage running to your doorbell wires. Source: I’ve had both and current have the wired one and two chime pro’s. You also have to make sure the polarity is correct for the wired one or it won’t work at all. You may also need the included resistor for it to work

Out of the 5 that I have installed, none have worked with anyone’s door bell and they put it in their literature that it doesn’t work with a certain type. I’m glad it works with yours. I like the chimes bc I can customize the sounds to a ring, motion,etc

The wired pro requires constant power, so if your doorbell wiring doesn’t support that, you will have to get the non-wired version and take it off to charge it or get the hard wire kit and you can run a normal wall charger for it. Doorbell: https://amzn.to/3UPLbBV Hardwired kit: https://amzn.to/47kHICL I had to do that at my grandparents house bc I didn’t want them to have to remember to take it off the wall and charge it. You just have to keep someone from unplugging it from the wall socket 😂

I have the ring WiFi version and it works great and instantly

I've a bettery powered ring door bell, it's dead handy

My standard Ring doorbell cam has only shutdown once due to cold this winter. I don't have to charge it for months, either.

I had a Ring during the AWS outage. It still recorded everything but I didn’t get notified about movement or doorbell presses until AWS was stable again. About 20 Ring push notifications all came through at once, I thought we were being invaded.