Ring - Wired Doorbell Pro PoE (3rd Gen)

A Ring wired doorbell. The POE doorbell is great.

Yeah, looking at photos now. That's not my favorite. And the fish-eye distortion isn't as bad as my current Ring Pro doorbell that I just bought but still bothersome. Might have to plan for a second outdoor camera or find an alternative. :/

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.

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.

Sad to say then my Ring Doorbell Pro has successfully beaten your odds by far. Running like a champ 6 years straight now. 😎👍🏻

The pro is the only model that can control an existing mechanical chime

Trying to decide between the two. Anyone used both and know if the one being almost 5x the price is worth it? I struggle to find too many differences on them that would suggest the price is worth it. Will I need a chime for the 50 dollar one? I will be buying the ring adapter to plug it in. TL:DR is the more expensive one worth it over the cheaper one?

150 and I wouldn’t even hesitate to buy it lol. You’ve seen it go on sale for that price? As for right now the higher quality would be nice but I don’t have a mechanical bell or really need head to toe view.

I have the more expensive one. It doesn’t ring my base station so I need to add chimes. Unless I’m missing a setting

I had the Ring doorbell cam 2020 version for a long time, luckily it picked up a Uhaul hitting my girlfriends car and ripping the entire front end off. They did not stop and kept on going but luckily my Ring picked it up and Iwas able to call the cops. Recently decided that I no longer wanted to pay a monthly fee and purchased a Eufy E340 doorbell cam. After 3 days I returned it. The app is not as user friendly, loads videos much slower as it has to encrypt every single video you open. I also noticed it missed a lot of motion, like the range isn't nearly as good as my Ring doorbell cam. It missed even more motion at night. I ended up buying the Ring Doorbell Pro after returning the Eufy. I maxed out all the settings on my Eufy and still it just was not as good as my Ring. Im ok with paying 120$ a year for the fluent app experience Ring offers. The slider where you can just endlessly scroll through video after video makes it extremely nice. If the Eufy sensed motion and I clicked the notification to open it, it would take forever to pull up the motion that is currently happening. My Ring takes like 2 seconds to open and I'm able to see pretty quickly what is happening. Now that I have the Pro version too, I am able to just swap batteries instead of removing and charging the entire doorbell. A knockoff replacement battery only cost 15$ on Amazon. I would have to say I'm pleased with my upgrade and probably wouldn't buy another Eufy product again after that experience.