Ring - Video Doorbell Elite

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.

I’ve been using Ring with Homebridge for a couple years. It works great. I even have automations that turn on my lights when Ring disarms and stuff. It’s seamless.

Hardwired ring survived two winters. I pay for the alarm so there’s a monthly cost for me.

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

You’ll want a battery powered doorbell camera. Eufy, Wyze, Blink, etc. nearly all of them either the manufacturer or a third party make mounts for renters. IMHO stay away from ring (I just ditched mine after 5 years), they recently announced that they no longer require law enforcement to obtain a warrant for video from your doorbell.

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

It’s tough that you don’t have wiring for a doorbell, because no battery-powered option is going to match a wired one for reliability. I’ve been using a Ring wired doorbell along with a few wired Ring outdoor cameras, and they’ve been rock-solid when it comes to alerts and notifications. I’m not a fan of paying a subscription, but in Ring’s case I keep it because the reliability makes it worth it. I tried the Eufy doorbell in the past and the notifications were hit or miss. Until something else can match Ring’s consistency, I think they’ll stay at the top of the doorbell game.