Ring - Battery Doorbell

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 agree, unless hardwiring the normal non-removable battery variant is a pain in the arse... You'll either lose interest and have a dead ring doorbell, probably put a cheapo wireless doorbell next to it instead, or you'll keep charging it having no doorbell for the day and ultimately get annoyed by it and buy the next model up with removable batteries + a spare battery to swap on the fly - essentially buying twice, Ring knows it and I'm sure that's why they keep selling it. Unless things have changed, The Plus variant has better FOV (hence the higher resolution) - I could see the edge of my door handle it was that wide a view, very nice.

The Plus has a removable battery to allow recharging without taking the whole doorbell off the wall. This allows you to get an extra battery, so that your doorbell isn't down for the 5-8 hours it takes to recharge. I'll never recommend the regular battery doorbell because of this, unless you are wiring it so that you don't have to take the doorbell down to recharge it. It also has slightly better video resolution.

I have the battery that is removable. I would say go that route because you can always keep a battery charged and then change it out. With the built in battery, you have to bring the ring inside and let it sit to charge......... meaning no doorbell during that charge time.

I had the Ring doorbell cam 2020 version for a long time, luckily it picked up a Uhaul hitting my girlfriends car and ripping the entire front end off. They did not stop and kept on going but luckily my Ring picked it up and Iwas able to call the cops. Recently decided that I no longer wanted to pay a monthly fee and purchased a Eufy E340 doorbell cam. After 3 days I returned it. The app is not as user friendly, loads videos much slower as it has to encrypt every single video you open. I also noticed it missed a lot of motion, like the range isn't nearly as good as my Ring doorbell cam. It missed even more motion at night. I ended up buying the Ring Doorbell Pro after returning the Eufy. I maxed out all the settings on my Eufy and still it just was not as good as my Ring. Im ok with paying 120$ a year for the fluent app experience Ring offers. The slider where you can just endlessly scroll through video after video makes it extremely nice. If the Eufy sensed motion and I clicked the notification to open it, it would take forever to pull up the motion that is currently happening. My Ring takes like 2 seconds to open and I'm able to see pretty quickly what is happening. Now that I have the Pro version too, I am able to just swap batteries instead of removing and charging the entire doorbell. A knockoff replacement battery only cost 15$ on Amazon. I would have to say I'm pleased with my upgrade and probably wouldn't buy another Eufy product again after that experience.

I had a problem where the battery Ring would randomly disconnect from wifi. I live in a tiny apartment with a router near the ring. All the wifi tests showed enough strength when standing next to the ring with the door closed. I called Ring customer service and they sent me a code to order a Chime Pro for free. The rep said it had to be the Pro version not the regular Chime. I haven’t had a problem since. Maybe try calling customer service to see if they can help you out.

I have a battery doorbell, and I only have to charge it once a month if that.

Mine is stuck onto bricks using command Velcro strips on the standard mount. It’s fallen off once in 2 years and I put a new strip on it. Held really well previously on wooden boards. Sure it’d be easy to steal, but good for renting.

The wiring will charge the expensive ring doorbells and it will use the old ringer/bell inside. The cheap ring doorbell works of batteries only and you need to buy a new chime/rining speaker for the house.

How is your Nest doorbell camera in the cold weather? I'm stuck between getting the Nest/Google wireless doorbell and or the Ring.  We've had more cold days this winter and I mean brutal cold. My concern is one not working for a week or longer because it's so frigid outside. I did have a Ring doorbell before and the clarity as well as audio was amazing! I'm just really stuck between the Nest and another Ring wireless doorbell camera. Hoping you can maybe convince me on one or the other. Thanks  Nest doorbell camera is slimmer and therfore less noticeable to potential thief's from afar. Ring doorbell is chunkier, more noticeable but offers great video & audio quality. 

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.

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

Ring do battery powered ones. No wiring needed. Just charge it occasionally while you're at home. I think they even do little solar panel accessory so you really shouldn't need to charge it often

I switched from Ring to Reolink. I have all video saved locally and I can pass it through Frigate for really good AI detection. It also integrates perfectly with Home Assistant. You can get their NVR to make this simple. My switch started because I had a package stolen and the Ring camera didn’t show it for some reason.

Powered wifi cams for doorbells plus POE. This is Reolink. For Ring my doorbells were battery powered plus a bunch of wifi cams.

A Ring door camera without the subscription is useless. The only thing they let you do is get a motion alert (for everything - if you want smart notifications then you need to subscribe) which gets annoying. No viewing of past recording at all. Becomes a realtime on demand camera. Pretty useless as a doorbell camera in my opinion.

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.

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

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

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 have 3 ring cameras, they're really good. 

I use my Ring camera without a subscription. I got it connected to Home Assistant and Scrypted. Works perfectly, and with an upgraded doorbell transformer, I can record 24/7

TP-Link's Kasa or Tapo devices are what you want. Get a large enough memory card and you'll have 24/7 recording for a month. Great quality video as well. I previously had Ring, Nest, and Wyze doorbell cameras, my Tapo doorbell camera is superior to those.

Beware the Aqara. I gave up on it's crappy Wi-Fi and link from chime to doorbell, both of which failed constantly. Returned. I went back to my Ring with Scrypted, but that's not great. Recently, notifications just stopped and hence no recordings in HKSV. The live view or snapshots mostly works, some of the time. Still searching for the perfect match.

My Ring doorbell camera is fine. It just uses the existing doorbell wires for power and wifi for connecting.