Ring - Video Doorbell Elite

I had similar, looked at various solutions and ended up spending a Saturday with a rotary hammer and a diamond cutoff. Put a low voltage ring in the brick for a Ring Elite PoE. So all the way thru the brick fascia and into framing behind, like butter. Wiring on the back is concealed by removing trim, drilling about a 1 1/4" hole in lath & plaster, and fishing Smurf tube to the basement.

Elite works with chimes. You just have to enable in setup. I found tech support worthless. Clueless about the Elite.

I have a Ring Elite. Yes it rings my Angelo solenoid chimes. Had to enable a setting at installation. No it is not onvif.

Rings wired doorbell is supposed to work with chimes, even a mechanical chime. They also have a wired Elite that is PoE, that does not appear to work with a chime. They make chimes that plug into an outlet and will ring when the doorbell is activated. None of Ring doorbells are ONVIF, however.

This, ring is over priced junk, reolink is a way better option

A Ring wired doorbell. The POE doorbell is great.

I have no idea if it’s the best or even close, but I have a hard-wired Ring doorbell that does a very clear picture through the app with no subscription.

Have a hard wired ring, literally saved my life.

We are a Ring family as well. We have had our video doorbell (which wasn’t the most up to date version when we bough it) for 5+ years and we have not had my issues with it. The in house key pad has never worked correctly but we always just use our phones to turn on and off the alarm. The flood light was an easy install too so that was nice.

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.

Ring is probably the best solution for them, as it only does this — and other outdoor lights/sensors/alarms, etc. — but not smart bulbs, plugs, thermostats, etc like nest or tapo, which might confuse or overwhelm. The app is pretty straightforward and connects natively with Alexa - if they have an echo or echo show, they can view and respond to their cameras directly from that pretty easily. Less convenient for you if you DO want to keep it on the same ecosystem as your google or tapo devices, ring is harder to integrate (easier if you have the ring hub). But still not bad.

Sorry, I don’t think so. I’m pretty sure ring is only WiFi. I’m not familiar with one that does both.