Ring Video Doorbell Wired | Use Two-Way Talk, advanced motion detection, HD camera and real-time alerts to monitor your front door (wiring required)

Extremely helpful
I initially bought this for my elderly dad’s house to help monitor his door and make sure he is safe when someone visits. This met and surpassed my expectations.- Install was relatively easy. I’m a middle aged housewife with limited electronic know how and could figure it out with just a few minor blips. The instructions were clear.- The tone (doorbell chime) is loud and clear. Even my elderly father who is slightly hard of hearing can clearly hear it.- Video images and still images are clear with wide angles. Night vision works well.- Remote control via app is intuitive and easy and you can customize a lot of features. I love that I can turn on and off alerts, get instant notifications of visitors and even greet/ talk to the visitor via my cell phone, keep videos saved (for a fee).Overall I recommend. I liked it so much I bought one for my own home too.

Works as a doorbell
This is a nice doorbell; it is smaller than most. It does not require batteries, so it need to have access to wiring of some sort. I am using my already installed house wiring to my old home, ding-dong. I used a bypass connection, so the indoor ding-dong did does not dong or ding.I purchased a Chime to go with this and it works great. But the Chime is not necessary, as it will chimes over your cell phone too. I really like that. I have a Nest that would not connect to anything but its app and no chime, unless it was wired into the Home ding-dong and when that quit working, the only place the Nest would dong or ding was outside — nice, the person outside can hear the dinging and the donging, so they know they pushed the button, but no one else does. So, I went to this cheaper model Ring, and it does everything the Nest (older, one of the first) would not do. However — the Ring is no without its faults. For example, the image is great on a small, postage size screen, all the pixels squished down, but try to enlarge to a larger screen for a better view? Forget it, it is crap. Remember, though, this is a DOORBELL, not a true security camera. The other thing is that the viewing angel from side to side is great, you get a lot in the picture, for a doorbell, that is, but the up and down image is not so good. you can see the underside of your porch or overhang, but anyone standing in front of your door, or a packaged laid at your door, you will not see. I am working on designing a mount that will tip the Ring Bell downward a bit, so I can see more of the area in front of the door — It would be nice to look at your door cam and see if a package has been placed in front or to the side of your door. I do not monitor my doorbell cam, 24/7 and it is amazing how the delivery people can — sometimes, not always — skip in and out like fairies doing secret deliveries. Hopefully, with this Ring there will be less of that, especially with this ability to Chime notices. The other oddity, is that one push of the Ring doorbell button and the chime sound off in a series chimes, two or three repeats — great — but if the person pushed the Ring Button a second time? Nothing. Apparently, it takes several seconds for the Ring to recover and set up with the Wifi to ring again. I am not sure if this is by design, putting a stop to the annoying prank, or multiple rings from impatient ringers or not, but, there is a definite pause after the first push of the button. So, poor image quality, even though it says 1080p it seems more like 480 of yesterday. I am still in the trial phase and I am liking this Ring, mostly for it connecting to my phone with a Chime notice. Have not tried the Alexa connection yet, but the plugin chime I purchased with along with this Ring works perfectly and the lag time is barely noticeable, on both units. I have to keep reminding myself, it is only a Doorbell. There is one other thing worth mentioning, a plus and something it seem only Ring has — a Neighborhood feature. People with Ring doorbells can post online for neighbors to see and monitor suspicious activity. However, does this deter the thieves? Apparently not. Still, it is a heads-up feature and something kinda fun about it. Great for lost pet notices. And also for alerts as to which parts of town to stay out of — yes, a map of activity is also supplied with the Neighbor feature. Of course, to stay connected in this way, you have to pay a yearly fee, somewhere around $35 a year, but that beats NEST bottom price of $50. Lots to like with this small, easy to install unit — figure 45 minutes, maybe less, as I installed the Chime too. You have to have a hard wire available. There are plug in transformers with long wire leads for connecting to an indoor source if you do not have a prewired doorbell to tap into. They are around $15. Too many problems with the Battery types, and like reporting the gas mileage on a new car, they all lie about how long a service you can expect — some say that if they say, 3 month, they mean anywhere from a week to two weeks, at least from what I have read. I really like this Ring — picture quality sucks, but, again, it is a Door Bell. Also, I have other security cams and one is even aimed at my front door, so I see if any packages or someone is on their knees (ha, ha) up close to my front door. One thing I did like about the Nest, maybe two things, the image quality was great, it had a larger field of view from top to bottom and it somehow could identify packages and would notify you that a package had been delivered — nice Cam, but not so much a good doorbell.