Wired Doorbell Pro PoE (3rd Gen)

I had a Ring during the AWS outage. It still recorded everything but I didn’t get notified about movement or doorbell presses until AWS was stable again. About 20 Ring push notifications all came through at once, I thought we were being invaded.

You need a camera with WRD and HDR. WDR adjusts pixel-level exposure in real-time, preventing sun washout while keeping surroundings visible—crucial for direct sun pointing. HDR builds on this for even better dynamic range in extreme light like Arizona summers. Avoid basic cameras; they blow out in glare as you’ve experienced. The best ones I’m seeing available now are the Ring 4K Elite and the Eufy E340.

A Ring wired doorbell. The POE doorbell is great.

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.

All the Ring wired-only cameras (not the battery models with a wired option) save extra video to before and after the detection event, which avoids what you describe. Unlike Ring’s prior cameras based on 5-year-old technology (I.e., every Ring camera released before August 2025), the new wired-only 4K cameras released in September/October 2025 don’t miss motion. These are the first Ring doorbell cameras that are more advanced (in terms of electronics and sensors) than what Reolink and Ubiquiti have offered for 2+ years.

It does, ring updated their help pages for it yesterday. The plus is not on the list however.

https://ring.com/support/articles/wtr7r/24-7-recording-security-cams?hasLangChanged=true - top one on the list. Mine is being delivered today so I can confirm when I install it.

The brand new wired doorbells are still square but aren’t fisheye anymore