Ring - Battery Doorbell Pro

Idk I don’t have this issue with mine. I can charge it to 50% and it will last weeks. I have it on the highest motion setting and people are constantly walking past my door. Not to mention my bf stalks the hallway by watching the live view all the time. I haven’t ever had an internet issue either. Maybe it’s the model you have. My father got the ring battery pro or something the one where you can change the battery out and his keeps missing motion.

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.

Yeah, looking at photos now. That's not my favorite. And the fish-eye distortion isn't as bad as my current Ring Pro doorbell that I just bought but still bothersome. Might have to plan for a second outdoor camera or find an alternative. :/

I wouldn’t consider the pro overpriced since it’s one of the only models that doesn’t miss a ton of motion events, and doesn’t completely skip the first 5-10 seconds of motion before finally recording. Since it’s a security device, reliability is extremely important to me. So the pro is actually the only model I’d ever be willing to use.

Yeah, so I did that, and bummer, it crapped out in a few hours. Those Best Buy reviews were right on the money. It went offline, troubleshooting showed the Wi-Fi chip was toast. I returned it and got the cheaper one. No problems since.

I have two of them. They've been good. The pro's better, with better stuff, obviously. But, for some reason, there's probably a bad batch. I couldn't justify paying 3 times the price.

In my personal experience it is hit and miss how quickly it opens up, and when you’re out and about and the postman rings, more often than not he’s gone by the time it connects, I have it on its own vlan so nothing is interfeiring, and the home base is connected via lan cable. The ring pro I had was a far better and seamless experience, I like it to apple and android, one is cheaper but one just works.

The cheap one is a pretty old model, one of the last remaining models that still has a widescreen sensor crop so you can’t see “head-to-toe” or if a package has been delivered. They also gimped it by not giving it the ability to ring a traditional hardwired bell. Otherwise, it’s a pretty good deal at $50. The Pro is a little newer, and has the aforementioned “head-to-toe” view and mechanical bell compatibility, but is extremely overpriced at $229. It’s a decent value when it goes on sale for $150 or so. Source: I’ve done the homework and been wanting to upgrade my old one to the Pro, but the damn thing hasn’t gone on sale in months.

Sad to say then my Ring Doorbell Pro has successfully beaten your odds by far. Running like a champ 6 years straight now. 😎👍🏻

The pro is the only model that can control an existing mechanical chime

Just recently switched from Ring (Ring Pro for three years wired) to Googles 2024 wired doorbell. Ring’s detention algorithm quality (person. Package. Animal etc) is poor. Lots of issues with latency when live connecting. Video captures showing as just blank black screens. Occasional dropping of signal. At first I thought I just got a lemon. Called support. Got a replacement. Still had issues. Lots of packet scans of my network and looking at signal strengths of the WiFi bands. Firewall inspections. Router logs…. Finally just decided to switch from ring to nest because because I had a echo set up with the ring and half the features I was using in the Alexa app just wouldn’t work and no one at Alexa responded to me for my request to fix the app. If you go to Amazon’s browser page and try to get to Alexa the browser page just tells you to download the app. Seems pretty clear Amazon is setting different priorities that is not Ring or Alexa. The nest doorbell was easy to install. Setup was a breeze. Had to reboot it once right after the firmware update upon install. No latency issues. Detection algorithms work great. Everything else WiFi router firewall is the same. Does it still cost money (subscription) to get nest? Yes. If not paying a subscription is important to you. Get something else but remember you are then responsible for the storage memory and security of your setup. Nest works for my needs in terms of being able to access the device from anywhere via my phone. Enough buffer days of video clips just long enough for me to access it and download it if I need to. And smart alerts through their detection algorithms. You are paying for storage. Data analytics. Secure remote connectivity.

Trying to decide between the two. Anyone used both and know if the one being almost 5x the price is worth it? I struggle to find too many differences on them that would suggest the price is worth it. Will I need a chime for the 50 dollar one? I will be buying the ring adapter to plug it in. TL:DR is the more expensive one worth it over the cheaper one?

150 and I wouldn’t even hesitate to buy it lol. You’ve seen it go on sale for that price? As for right now the higher quality would be nice but I don’t have a mechanical bell or really need head to toe view.

I have the more expensive one. It doesn’t ring my base station so I need to add chimes. Unless I’m missing a setting

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.

Ring Pro with Access Controller Pro 2

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.

Why downvotes? This would seem like a good solution. I currently have a ring doorbell using Wi-Fi. I use the motion detection to trigger outdoor lights and it actually works quite nicely, very little delay. However I don't know that I'm going to buy another ring so a reolink with Wi-Fi would be a very interesting choice.

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.