Ring - Video Doorbell Elite

A Ring wired doorbell. The POE doorbell is great.

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.