Ring - Wired Doorbell Pro PoE (3rd Gen)

Ring’s latest wired doorbell 4K products offer excellent picture quality and fast/reliable alerts, especially with a POE connection, but they don’t offer good integration with Apple Home. Also, Ring products only record locally with the addition of the $250 Ring Alarm Pro base station and the most expensive Ring plan ($200/year). Assuming you have wired power to your doorbell and aren’t reliant on battery power, and can wait a few months, keep an eye out for the upcoming Aqara G400 doorbell (https://www.youtube.com/shorts/e9_Kv7tUmao). It will offer good integration with Apple Home including recording directly to NAS storage or the Apple iCloud, with video alerts on AppleTV. It should be available to purchase by the end of April.

A Ring wired doorbell. The POE doorbell is great.

Pro might be better if it will fit

Pro was top of the line when I bought it and it works well. I have no idea which doorbell is best.

I wouldn’t consider the pro overpriced since it’s one of the only models that doesn’t miss a ton of motion events, and doesn’t completely skip the first 5-10 seconds of motion before finally recording. Since it’s a security device, reliability is extremely important to me. So the pro is actually the only model I’d ever be willing to use.

I guess 15 seconds come from a battery-powered doorbell - those are unusably slow. My old Ring pro running on the transformer power responds instantly as well. FOV here really sucks as others have mentioned.

The Pro wired DOES work with my existing home doorbell. That was the primary reason I bought it - I didn't want to deal with the Chime system when my existing doorbell can be heard throughout my house.

Yeah, so I did that, and bummer, it crapped out in a few hours. Those Best Buy reviews were right on the money. It went offline, troubleshooting showed the Wi-Fi chip was toast. I returned it and got the cheaper one. No problems since.

I have two of them. They've been good. The pro's better, with better stuff, obviously. But, for some reason, there's probably a bad batch. I couldn't justify paying 3 times the price.

In my personal experience it is hit and miss how quickly it opens up, and when you’re out and about and the postman rings, more often than not he’s gone by the time it connects, I have it on its own vlan so nothing is interfeiring, and the home base is connected via lan cable. The ring pro I had was a far better and seamless experience, I like it to apple and android, one is cheaper but one just works.

The cheap one is a pretty old model, one of the last remaining models that still has a widescreen sensor crop so you can’t see “head-to-toe” or if a package has been delivered. They also gimped it by not giving it the ability to ring a traditional hardwired bell. Otherwise, it’s a pretty good deal at $50. The Pro is a little newer, and has the aforementioned “head-to-toe” view and mechanical bell compatibility, but is extremely overpriced at $229. It’s a decent value when it goes on sale for $150 or so. Source: I’ve done the homework and been wanting to upgrade my old one to the Pro, but the damn thing hasn’t gone on sale in months.

Ring has a [POE doorbell camera](https://ring.com/ca/en/products/video-doorbell-elite/?srsltid=AfmBOooLJXLyj6NB_jfkcFso7s-gBTImJlIhKCTxk8DSJYE5pB6h33Ea) which be brought into HomeKit using HomeBridge or Home Assistant. I have the wired Ring DoorbellPro (not POE) and bring it into HomeKit with HomeBridge. I have been happy with it.