Ring - Video Doorbell Wired

I recently installed the basic hardwire (wall plug transformer) Ring doorbell camera ($49.00) and haven’t subscribed to any service from them. It’s perfect for my needs. Notifications through my iphone,ipad, echo shows and a wall mounted echo hub.

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 also have a ring wired camera since 2017. In this age of tech dying within a few years, that’s very decent. I’ve seen lots of reviews/comments saying it can be slow to react but they don’t mention whether it’s wired or wireless. Have had zero issues in almost 8 years.

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

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.