Anyone have a Ring doorbell ?

select-fire

Leave me specify... A ring doorbell with the video camera set up on a phone. Any issues? Wanting to install one for my Mom and monitor.

Brookwood

My home bought 5 years ago has a door bell on the front entrance to the house. It has never rang and I have not tried to fix it.  

Old-Colts

I think Ring is a good choice; they have both standard width and a slimmer Pro model. I have a Skybell, which is similar.

truthful

I don't have one but a neighbor does. I attended a 1-hour meeting at his home a month ago and the thing kept interrupting constantly. We have a lot of rabbits in the area and apparently each time a rabbit moved the Ring notified him.

toad67

Wife and I have a ring mounted camera, not the door bell,  mounted below the eve, over our garage, in front of the front door. We were more concerned with seeing what went on in front of the house, and around the vehicles, than who came up to our porch. With the camera where it's at, we can still see most of what's going on, and who's coming to the door. With the ring, you can send or receive your recordings to others as you choose. We recently received a video from someone's ring door bell, showing a guy who came on their porch and stole an item. The video showed a person coming up, with their head down to avoid the camera, taking the item and leaving. The sender guessed it was obvious that they seen the door bell camera and covered up/held their head down to avoid being seen. This is why we went with the video/area camera rather than the d/b camera. Possibly catching more of what we wanted to see.

He Dog

Have the door bell and two other cameara/motion detector/lights.  The door bell works as advertised, no issues.  I would like to be a lot more impressed with the other two.  Set to ignore anything smaller than a human, I get video of cats, box turtles and doves.  Cars going by at night set off the lights on the one in the carport aimed at the front of the house.  It should not be tripped, but is.  It also gets nice video of cats.  The doorbell does do a good job.  If I have the alarm set, I can answer the door from across town or across country, and the person will never know I am inside.   Being an old fart who does not like being on ladders, I hard wired all of them, no batteries to change.

JasonV

A co-worker has a ring system and was telling me that their neighbors also do and somehow they have set up a ring neighborhood in the system so that is a bad guy was going from house to house breaking into cars it would alert them and save video. I don't understand how it works but that sounds nice, and also raises my privacy paranoia factor.

I have IR cameras covering the interior, exterior, and yards. They go to a 3tb DVR and I can watch from my phone. Very happy with my system, it is not RING.

Alpine

Yes. We have 2. One at the front door, one on the back door. They have been in place for 2 years, and they are wired to the doorbell power. Arlo cameras also, but replacing the batteries in the Arlo's is a pain.