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KenDMVRing’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.
Lets_reviewA Ring wired doorbell. The POE doorbell is great.
403OldsPro 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.
ASFxI 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.
CategoryRepulsive699I 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.
Euphoric_Taste_9788The 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.
fireflow-7Yeah, 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.
Gloomy-Rub-7646In 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.
