Ring - Video Doorbell Wired

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

I know most will rail against it, but I am perfectly satisfied with the Ring Wired Pro. I don't need the recordings, so I don't have a subscription on it, can work with your existing chime and is inexpensive. If you don't care about the chime, you can go with the standard Ring Wired and it under $50. I do have an Echo Show in various locations in the house so I can see and talk to the person at the door from virtually anywhere hands free.

Two wired version Ring doorbell/cameras for my front door and den (front facing) door and a battery flood/camera at the backyard. Have to change the backyard battery about every 90 days. I love them!

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?

I could not get ring to connect to my router - it was 2 meters away. returned in - I have a nest one right now but its not wired and I hate having to charge it every week

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

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.

ring is good , detects every movement by the door

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

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.

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.

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've been using Ring for several years. I don't really recommend them because of the cloud dependence (which leads to some performance issues) but I still use them because of inertia. However, I do very much like the fact that Ring integrates a camera and alarm system into a single app/platform. I find this very convenient. You will get a lot of recommendations for Reolink but given what I say above the thing that puts me off them is the lack of alarm system integration. If I was purchasing new today I'd probably look at Eufy or Tapo. I believe they process locally, have video doorbells in your price rance, and have product lines which goes beyond just cameras.

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.

Got 2 of the solar cameras earlier this year. Absolutely fantastic AI tracking and camera quality and battery life. Now looking at replacing my Ring camera with eufy no subscription doorbell

It was only until I got the solar cameras that I realised how the ring footage looked like it was from 1999.

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