Ring - Video Doorbell 3 Plus

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.

The extra pixels of the plus basically account for the wider FOV

Minimal difference in image quality, you'll notice the extra fov for sure - but biggest reason to upgrade would be for replaceable batteries, if yours already has that then eh, unless you want to see your doormat id say not much point.

Think all of the ring doorbells do outside of there cheapest model ... Which is the model everyone buys cause great deal, then a year or two later realise the battery thing is a pain in the ass and end up buying an upgrade.

Yep, that's the upgrade I made and my only regret was buying the original one. .... I've now moved to an Eufy E340, the detection is massively superior it never goes off for no reason & while less FoV compared to the Plus the image quality appears better, but I find people ringing the doorbell my Alexa's etc are slower to respond. Overall though I liked my Ring Doorbell Plus and if youre happy in the Ring ecosystem it's a solid purchase and swapping batteries is way more convenient.

All I can say is, I tried the Ring Plus and the Aqara G4 and both were unuseable as a way to interact with anyone at your door, by the time it connects, they are long gone.

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.

I currently own both in different houses. I prefer the Ring. Ring video is better, the app is better, and I don’t think outdoor video integration with the alarm system is important. I mean, someone ringing your doorbell is not the same thing as someone smashing a slider door and walking into your house. In my experience, SimpliSafe cameras are not competitive. They’re overpriced, and functionally weak. Their only benefit is that the call center can access them to help discern whether you have a true incident or a false alarm. That’s not nothing and for me that justifies having 3 or 4 cameras in key locations in each house. But the monitoring feature does not apply to doorbells or outside cameras. There are many better options. If SimpliSafe wants to be in the camera and doorbell business, they have a lot of work to do.

I recently moved from Ring to Eufy for security cameras. Ring was good but had a subscription fee with different levels of service for a price. Eufy was an up-front cost of the equipment, but no sustaining cost, and stores everything on a memory card that's accessible on the app. Both can be hard-wired using the ones you mentioned but I went with rechargeable batteries.

Hi all, im looking for a video doorbell to replace my current one from Ring. I've pretty much hated the ring experience. Its all tied into the cloud, the app constantly bombards me with ads, and theres no easy way to integrate it into the homekit app. I currently use scrypted to do this and while it does work on homekit, the experience isn't perfect. I'm looking for a doorbell that isn't cloud-based, doesn't have a subscription, and will work with homekit, either natively, or through something like scrypted (provided its integration is better than rings'). Is there anything like that that exists? side note- im also looking for a floodlight camera so please drop any reccomendations for that as well.

thanks for the advice but blink imo is absolutely horrible. i had it for a while and it disconnected from the internet about once a week, and i had to factory reset everything to get it to connect again. there’s also no easy way to integrate it into apple homekit.

yes but they keep showing me ads for other ring products. bottom line is, i don’t want to keep it

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.