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.

Yeah I'm on Ring as doorbell plus a chime and 2 pet cams. I never heard of Eufy til this thread, I'm definitely going to look into it. Presume the Ring live view still works without subscription? Could still use the indoor ones as pet cams.

Hmmm, that's crap. Thanks for the info re Eufy 👍

Got a Ring 5 months ago and ive never been more satisfied

Ring is probably the best imo.

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

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.

I don't know what kind of router you have, but if you can create a virtual Lan for IoT devices, you should. Then, make sure that the vlan only works on 2.4ghz only, which is what the doorbell requires. Unfortunately, the battery version is not something I would have gotten. I have the wired version and had to make the wifi change to get it to work properly.

Not unlike similar post, I have a wired Ring doorbell, and had a separate Ring cam to watch our puppy at night. It’s great, works well, absolutely no complaints. I don’t need the separate cam anymore and just paid €39.99 for the year for ring (€100 for 2 x cameras) and I wish I had bought the Eufy. No monthly subs with Eufy. I also have a Eufy robot vacuum and it does the job. Next year before my Ring subscription renews, I’ll jump to Eufy. Hard to change over atm as I’ve got the 2 x cams and 2 x doorbell chimes. I also have a few TP Link Tapo smart plugs and it seems like a decent brand too. Worth looking at price and researching reviews.

It doesn’t work live for my camera unfortunately. You have to have the premium/higher subscription.

I am tired of running Scrypted and having my Ring doorbell screen spin and spin and spin in the Home app. Sometimes I get the feed, and sometimes I don't. Its rarely quick. And my network is good. I want something more reliable that "directly" supports HKSV (ie: not needing Scrypted). There is always the possibility that I will just wait to see if the rumors are correct that Apple will be coming out with a video doorbell of their own this year. But, I am also open to replacing my Ring doorbell now if there is a good option. (ie:works well, good feature set, not too expensive). What do you suggest?

The wiring will charge the expensive ring doorbells and it will use the old ringer/bell inside. The cheap ring doorbell works of batteries only and you need to buy a new chime/rining speaker for the house.

A Ring door camera without the subscription is useless. The only thing they let you do is get a motion alert (for everything - if you want smart notifications then you need to subscribe) which gets annoying. No viewing of past recording at all. Becomes a realtime on demand camera. Pretty useless as a doorbell camera in my opinion.

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.

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

I have the ring WiFi version and it works great and instantly

My standard Ring doorbell cam has only shutdown once due to cold this winter. I don't have to charge it for months, either.

I have 3 ring cameras, they're really good. 

I use my Ring camera without a subscription. I got it connected to Home Assistant and Scrypted. Works perfectly, and with an upgraded doorbell transformer, I can record 24/7

TP-Link's Kasa or Tapo devices are what you want. Get a large enough memory card and you'll have 24/7 recording for a month. Great quality video as well. I previously had Ring, Nest, and Wyze doorbell cameras, my Tapo doorbell camera is superior to those.

Beware the Aqara. I gave up on it's crappy Wi-Fi and link from chime to doorbell, both of which failed constantly. Returned. I went back to my Ring with Scrypted, but that's not great. Recently, notifications just stopped and hence no recordings in HKSV. The live view or snapshots mostly works, some of the time. Still searching for the perfect match.

My Ring doorbell camera is fine. It just uses the existing doorbell wires for power and wifi for connecting.