Ring - Video Doorbell 2

I live on a farm and run 2 doorbell, 2 regular outdoor cam battery, 1 outdoor cam with the pt control and the outdoor cam plus. With all their sensitivity set on max the pt cam and regular ones can pick up a cat or rabbit at 35 to 40 ft easy. Facing the road and my driveway, it will pick up basically all cars that go by or neighbors riding by on a horse. Distance is probably 75 yards. Ring video doorbell 2 is the newer hardwired one with the birds eye view, which i think is worthless it limits the camera from pick up beyond 30 ft. The outdoor cam plus is much better quality than the others, but I think the range it will pickup a human or vehicle is less than the older ones. If your in town it may not matter if you can pick up a vehicle at 75 yards, but out in the country, it sure is nice.

I also have a ring wired camera since 2017. In this age of tech dying within a few years, that’s very decent. I’ve seen lots of reviews/comments saying it can be slow to react but they don’t mention whether it’s wired or wireless. Have had zero issues in almost 8 years.

Look for hardwired doorbells. I have Ring 2 for 2 years now and never had an issue

I have a doorbell pro 2 and several floodlight cams and they all work well with little to no issues like you described. We do have an older doorbell 2 (non-pro model) at a separate property that can be hit or miss at times in very cold or hot weather, which affects battery life. I chalk that up to poor wiring in that building not being able to keep it charged in those extremes. As others have said, I would contact their support and see what they say. If no resolution, you have your answer and next steps, but they may offer an acceptable solution.

Thoroughly Ringed up - great for finding out where our free range cats are, for dealing with deliveries when off site and keeping an eye on what our very questionable neighbour is up to. Having his last threats on camera made the entire investment worthwhile.

Pretty sure Ring will do your basic requests without subscription. I think a subscription is only required to have videos saved so you can see who came to your door.

You’ll mostly get people hating on Ring products here. But honestly, they’re the best all around in terms of consistent, high quality, well-rounded hardware and software. $10/month isn’t that much if you want something that just works and you don’t have to keep fiddling with. I personally have dozens of cameras from multiple companies, including Ring. And I have to fiddle with the Ring ones the least. I consider it to be my main security camera, the other ones are just for redundancy or specific-use cases that a Ring cam may not work well for. No camera company is perfect, but Ring is definitely head and shoulders above the rest. And oh, don’t just look and compare at spec #s. For example, the video quality on my 1080p Ring cams are much better than my 4k/2k ones from other companies. Resolution isn’t the only thing that matters for video after all. Encoding, bitrate, etc. also matter.

Went from Ring to Eufy. Ring sucked for me from day one. Eufy isn’t perfect, but it’s worked 100% better for me compared to Ring.

ring is good , detects every movement by the door

Not quite true. My mother wanted a bell because she had trouble hearing the fixed bell and also wanted to be able to see who was there before answering. The Ring does that without a subscription even when you are away. The only thing you need the subscription for is to store the data. It will also use the existing 12v bell supply if you have one so that you don’t have to recharge. If you use wireless then I think the battery lasts about 3 months but it depends on how often it is used.

I’m the same, got a ring camera for my elderly mother who has early dementia. Wouldn’t be without it. Handy for remotely talking to visitors too. Has given my mother great peace of mind too as she lives alone in the country.

That’s what I’m about to replace! Hate ring and can’t wait to get away from it and cancel the subscription 

Without paying $ it’s pretty worthless since you can’t access the historical videos…now Ive been down the home assistant route for the last few months I am slowing removing all these online only subscriptions that are privacy concerns with better local offline options and I’ll VPN in to get “online” abilities 

After about 8 years of the Ring, I replaced it with the Eufy. The thing that got me to switch was Ring's ever-increasing subscription fees, until I decided that $50/year for a doorbell wasn't worth it. Not only is the video quality better on the Eufy, but having local storage and no fees to access it was what sold me on it. I have a bunch of their cameras as well and have been happy with them.

Yeah I'm on Ring as doorbell plus a chime and 2 pet cams. I never heard of Eufy til this thread, I'm definitely going to look into it. Presume the Ring live view still works without subscription? Could still use the indoor ones as pet cams.

Hmmm, that's crap. Thanks for the info re Eufy 👍

Got a Ring 5 months ago and ive never been more satisfied

Ring is probably the best imo.

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.