In Spring 2024 I bought a house. Sometime later I bought 2 Ring cameras for the front & back doors. While I planned to eventually get solar panels for them since they're on batteries, life has been hectic and in 2026, I still hadn't gotten around to it. We had a major snowstorm and very cold temperatures a few weeks ago and I noticed the Ring front doorbell camera (video doorbell 2nd generation) was offline. The back door camera (Stick Up Cam 3rd gen) was still working fine.
I've tried charging the front door camera, but the blue light goes out after less than a minute and it doesn't seem to be charging, therefore, it won't get back on my network. I've researched it and it seems extreme cold can damage the battery life, even though I bought both cameras at the same time. It's been plugged in for over a week and still won't work so I've concluded that it might just be dead, so I'm considering replacing it but not sure if I want to replace it with another Ring camera since it died in less than 2 years. (purchased in summer 2024, died in Feb 2026)
What front door cameras do you that have worked well for you without being hardwired? I don't have a doorbell, but I do have 2 small dogs that let me know when anyone is walking down the street, not to mention coming to the door. Considering replacing both cameras and selling the stick-up Ring camera that still works. Please share your thoughts& experiences.
Live view and talking through the doorbell is free afaik but you’ll have no way to look back at motion events. If all you care about is being able to talk to people then get the standard doorbell in either wired or battery whichever you prefer
No, this is the price increase from April, 2025, OP just did not get renewed until now. Alarm monitoring is $199 a year, which is consistent with other paid alarm monitoring services.
Ring single doorbell is still $50 a year and $100 for multiple doorbells/cameras but no security monitoring.
This change is from April 2025, you are just seeing it now since you have not hit your anniversary date.
I have the single doorbell price of $50 a year, and then use my own DVR with private vpn remote access for security cameras but with no monitoring service. I have a separate alarm that alerts me if anything happens than I can check the security cameras myself. For my neighborhood, this is more than adequate. If I was looking for a professional alarm monitoring, I sure as hell would not use ring. I'd want something with its own battery backup, wired and cellular backup with a cut off alert (someone cuts cables and has a cell blocker it makes a police call, both fail otherwise you get false positives), as well as door/window open/break switches and interior motion detectors.
Either you don't need professional monitoring or you need way more than ring offers.
Now, if someone has a ring like doorbell that I can stream to my own cloud rather than paying their subscription, that I'd be interested in (not to hijack your thread but it seems answered and done).
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.
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