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You'll probably return it too if you decide to try it.
I bought this so I could know who was at my door throughout the day, and it came (mostly) recommended by a couple of neighbors, so I thought it would work for my purposes. Looking back, I literally wouldn't even pay $10 for this thing, much less $276 (after tax) + $30 for a wifi extender + $30 for the Ring Chime. Set up was pretty easy, but it was all down hill from there.
Here's why I'm sending this thing back...
1. Camera/Video Quality - The camera quality is 1080p, but it's SO SLOW, it fails to even catch an object in continual motion. It's just a pixel-y and blurry freeze-frame, so what's the point in paying so much extra for 1080p? Someone said my internet might be too slow/far away, so I bought a wifi extender (add $30) which made absolutely NO difference.
2. "Live View" Rarely, If Ever Works - And when when it rarely does, it takes FOREVER to pull up. Most of the time it doesn't even pull up at all though. "Your phone is having trouble connecting to Ring." Annoying.
3. If you want to receive alerts in the middle of the night that are actually loud enough to wake you up if someone is at your front door, you have to buy their "Ring Chime" (+$30).
4. Hit or Miss on Detecting Motion - I've walked right by this thing...in broad daylight...with the settings set to the most sensitive...without it even picking me up....SEVERAL times.
5. Hit After Hit on the WRONG Motions - I start getting flooded with notifications around 2:30pm until about 4:45 every day when the sun starts shining directly towards the camera, making it send a (false) motion notification (or more like 30) to my phone. I tried to adjust the sensitivity and boundary settings to see if I could alter it somehow, but due to the positioning of my front door, the doorbell, and the sun, I couldn't.
6. Blank Video Recording - Oh wait! It detected motion on my front porch early one weekend morning...oh, wait...no...it just got audio...the video screen is totally black. : /
7. Motion Detection is Delayed - Yes, UPS delivery guys are fast, but Ring takes SO LONG to even notice they're there, that they're already back in their truck and driving off by the time it starts recording.
8. Bad Field of View - It's smaller on this one than on the last ring, but I thought the 1080p (vs. 720p on the original) would be worth it. It's not. I installed it at the highest spot I could put it (without having a big hole next to by door from the previous doorbell), and it chopped off my 6' 2" husband's head from the nose up (the one time the motion video caught him on camera...when he'd been standing at the door with 2 briefcases, fumbling with his keys for a minute).
9. Night View is a Joke - It's too light right next to the camera and pitch black 3 feet away, and is too slow to adjust in time to catch anything on camera...so what's the point. I tried adjusting the porch lights and different lights inside, but it didn't help at all.
10. Cost of Use - $276 (after tax) for the doorbell + $30 for the wifi extender + $30 for the Ring Chime + $30/year for storage (which, why would you pay for storage if it's hit or miss on actually recording?) = $366 initial investment. That's way too much for a janky doorbell, IMO.
I could literally go on, but I don't want this piece of junk to invade any more of my life. If I haven't convinced you not to get it by now, go ahead and try it! Maybe it will work for you (I hope it does, because it's a cool CONCEPT)...but you'll probably end up returning it too. : /
October 2016 · Electronics · verified purchase