Ring - Wired Doorbell Pro PoE (3rd Gen)

A Ring wired doorbell. The POE doorbell is great.

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.

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

Just recently switched from Ring (Ring Pro for three years wired) to Googles 2024 wired doorbell. Ring’s detention algorithm quality (person. Package. Animal etc) is poor. Lots of issues with latency when live connecting. Video captures showing as just blank black screens. Occasional dropping of signal. At first I thought I just got a lemon. Called support. Got a replacement. Still had issues. Lots of packet scans of my network and looking at signal strengths of the WiFi bands. Firewall inspections. Router logs…. Finally just decided to switch from ring to nest because because I had a echo set up with the ring and half the features I was using in the Alexa app just wouldn’t work and no one at Alexa responded to me for my request to fix the app. If you go to Amazon’s browser page and try to get to Alexa the browser page just tells you to download the app. Seems pretty clear Amazon is setting different priorities that is not Ring or Alexa. The nest doorbell was easy to install. Setup was a breeze. Had to reboot it once right after the firmware update upon install. No latency issues. Detection algorithms work great. Everything else WiFi router firewall is the same. Does it still cost money (subscription) to get nest? Yes. If not paying a subscription is important to you. Get something else but remember you are then responsible for the storage memory and security of your setup. Nest works for my needs in terms of being able to access the device from anywhere via my phone. Enough buffer days of video clips just long enough for me to access it and download it if I need to. And smart alerts through their detection algorithms. You are paying for storage. Data analytics. Secure remote connectivity.

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.

Ring Pro with Access Controller Pro 2

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.