Gabe Turner: Hey folks, this is Gabe at Security Baron. If you ever looked at your peephole
and thought, "You know what? That could really be doing more" Today we might have the solution
as we review the Ring Door View Cam.
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Gabe: In today's review of the Ring Door View Cam, we're going to go over some pros and
cons, its design, its feature set, the installation process before diving into its mobile application,
the Ring - Always Home app, to make sure you have all the information you need to make
the right decision.
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Gabe: If you'd like to see a list of our favorite video doorbells, google "Security Baron best
video doorbells". If you have a question about today's review, leave us a comment, and I'll
get back to you.
Let's kick off today's review of the Ring Door View Cam looking at some pros and cons
beginning with the pros. It has 1080p high definition video, high dynamic range or HDR,
a 155-degree field of view, and pretty solid night vision. No matter if it's day or night,
you're going to get a crystal clear picture of whoever is standing in front of your door.
On top of that, it's battery operated. You don't have to worry about hardwiring it into
any type of existing infrastructure. As long as you have WiFi, a mobile device, and a peephole,
you're ready to go.
Now, on the con side, you don't get any artificial intelligence with the Ring Door View Cam.
You're really going to have to dial in your motion sensitivity to cut down on notifications.
If you're hoping to record an entire event, it really only begins to record the moment
it captures that initial motion detection. You may not actually capture the entire event
as it takes place.
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Gabe: Now that we've gone over the pros and cons of the Ring Door View Cam, let's talk
about its design. Honestly, it's pretty clever. It's a nifty design. You have to think that
Ring is essentially creating two sides to one door for one doorbell. Let's begin with
that front-facing element.
Here, you'll note that it's not exactly flush. You have your button, so people can actually
ring it. You have your camera and the portion of the lens that actually covers the peephole.
I think it's a pretty sleek design, considering everything that this thing is capable of.
On the back, you'll note there is a tube that connects it to the battery element and the
wire that actually connects the actual powering of the device to the battery itself. If you
look here, you have a casing for the battery, which you can actually close, if you want
to close that peephole.
You have your battery itself, which you place like this. You can take it out, charge it
up. It's pretty straightforward. Place this here.
Overall, I think that the white aesthetic of this is pretty aesthetically pleasing.
It fits in with my decor. It helps that I already have a white door, and I didn't even
notice it once I had it installed. Overall, I'm a fan of the design on the Ring Door View
Cam.
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Now that we've gone over the pros and cons and design on the Ring Door View Cam, let's
talk about its feature set, beginning with that crystal clear 1080p high-definition video
in HDR. If you note, in my video, you can see my front door really well. You can see
up the stairs. You can see how messy that hallway is. Excuse us. It is under construction.
In terms of what it's giving me when my friends come over, it's a nice, clear picture of their
face and everything going on around them with a 155-degree field of view. You're capturing
just about anything taking place in a hallway, or even in your front yard if you have it
set up in that manner.
When you extend that to the night-vision, it's really picking up well people's faces.
I have a particular friend who loves to come over at night, even sometimes when I'm not
there, and watch television at my house. He's got a key, of course. It's a friend. I get
to see each time his entire face that he walks over. I'm pretty impressed with not only the
day vision, but also the night-vision on the Ring Door View Cam.
Let's talk about actually engaging in a conversation with a Ring Door View Cam. Someone walks up
to your door, they ring the doorbell, and they're going to know that they rang it because
they're going to hear it in this speaker, and you're going to be alerted on your mobile
device. In my case, I also have the Ring Chime, so I'm going to actually hear it in my home.
Once I begin that conversation, it's actually going to have pretty solid sound quality because
there is a significantly large enough speaker on this end for them to hear me, and the microphones
also work pretty well, so I can hear them. It's not a perfect experience. At times, it
can be choppy and stumble a bit, but generally speaking, it was more than sufficient for
a short conversation. I was able to hear them pretty clearly.
That's the experience I've had with two-way audio on the Ring Door View Cam. Something
that's really cool about the Ring Door View Cam is the fact that it has impact sensing
technology. Whenever someone knocks on your door, it knows that, and it actually distinguishes
between knocks and rings of the doorbell. Speaking of notifications, you're going to
dive deeply into the motion settings with the Ring Door View Cam.
In terms of what's available to you, it's a lot. You can, of course, decide on the range
of things you would like to capture and detect. You can decide what you want to do in terms
of motion verification so you can trim the ends of recordings off once the motion has
stopped. There's even a motion wizard that actually helps you optimize things for your
home.
Beyond the wizard, you can just pause motion alerts whenever you'd like, using the motion
scheduler or decide on the frequency in which you get motion detection alerts. So if you
want to cut down on the notifications in order to lengthen the battery life of your ring
door, you can't have a significant number of objects.
Finally, the Ring Door View Cam integrates well with the Amazon Virtual Assistant ecosystem.
For example, you can have you Echo Dot or Amazon Echo serve as a chime, giving you another
way to know when people are at your front door.
You can also live stream the footage from your Ring Door View Cam directly to your Amazon
Echo show. Remember that the Ring Door View Cam can really slot well into your home's
home security apparatus in terms of working in conjunction with your Ring alarm system,
or a spotlight cam battery, giving you another way of knowing who's at your front door.
Now that we've gone over the features, let's talk about the installation process with the
Ring Door View Cam. Now, right off the bat I'm going to say that they make it pretty
easy with the step by step guide and manual that they provide to you.
The first thing you actually want to do is take out your Ring battery of the box and
make sure you plug it in because Ring says that once that is fully charged, it should
work for 6 to 12 months, depending on usage.
The next thing you're going to do is take out your current peephole and they give you
some tools to help in that process. You're going to take out that peephole and then you
begin with the visitor facing part of your Ring Door View Cam. You'll place this onto
the front.
I know they have various tools to help make sure that it's nice and evenly placed, depending
on your peephole's size and then you're going to put this tube through and this wire and
that wire will connect to your battery portion. The battery portion has this nice little port
that's available. You'll make sure that wire is nice and taut
Then you're going to want to begin the process of setting it up with your home's WiFi, getting
into mobile application. So you're going to scan the battery casing and it'll walk you
through that set up process, making sure it's on your WiFi and connected well and you'll
test each feature as you go through. So overall, I think it's a pretty straightforward process
for a little bit more complicated product when it comes to the installation experience
for the Ring Door View Cam.
Alright, we've set up our Ring Door View Cam. So let's check out this mobile command center
with the Ring Always Home App. It is here you're going to be setting up your Ring Door
View Cam, customizing the settings to cut down the notifications and live streaming
footage, among other things.
Unfortunately, it does seem to be on a downward trend where it only has a 3.2 out of 5 star
rating on Apple app store and a 3 out of 5 score on the Google Play store. So let's go
ahead and check it out on my iPhone.
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Gabe: Here I am checking out my Ring Baron Door View Cam. I already have someone trying
to hit me up. Someone here? Hey, how you doing?
Visitor: Hey, [inaudible 9:01]
Gabe: Yeah, I'm home. Can you shut my other door though please? Goodness, man. Look at
my door outside, it's open to everybody. Come on, dog. Thank you. Yeah, come on in.
So as you can see, it was a pretty solid experience with the Ring Door View Cam. You can see my
buddy when he rang the doorbell and you can get a pretty solid view of what's going on.
We can even replicate that experience in the live view.
Earlier, there was no problem with WiFi or anything so it was not choppy or anything
of that nature, and even here you'll see that it's a pretty solid perspective by going to
landscape you'll have the various options from every Ring View Doorbell in terms of
speaking directly to those outside of your camera, hanging up completely, or just turning
on the microphone so you can hear exactly what's going on. And you can go ahead and
shift around, digital zoom, all just using your thumbs or fingers. Now if we go back.
Now that were back in the settings, we can go in and check out our event history. Our
event history gives us the ability to check out things like live view, motion sensing,
anything is available to us. Even specifically, like we just want to see what people have
rang our door view cam, we can see that.
If we just want to see motion detection or a live view, those are all possibilities.
I can go ahead and go back and look at the live view from earlier by tapping on it. Voila,
this is earlier in the day, right here on the ring cam. Let's go back.
Check out some of the elements of the device itself. Now, I have motion alert snoozed so
that I don't get tons of alert of people coming in and out of the hallway. I can decide to
turn those back on or just go ahead and snooze them again. Now, there won't be any motion
alerts for the next hour.
Even more fun is going to device settings and messing with your motion settings. Here
you'll note that I've a pretty large field of view open from motion settings. I can decide
to turn that down or up. You'll note the blue cloud that comes up. I'm just going to take
it down to this level and save that.
In terms of motion schedule, I can decide what rules I'd like to employ. I have a rule
that I don't get any motion alerts between five and seven. That's typically when my neighbors
start to go outside and walk their dogs before they go to work. I don't want to be alerted
when that happens.
If you want to talk about motion frequency because this is a battery powered device.
You're going to look at your needs in the battery's capabilities and balance it accordingly
for what you particularly want from your system.
If you go to video settings you can of course change it to HDR which is high dynamic range.
Look at your infrared LEDs for night vision and just make up some rules related to your
live view. A specially fun thing about the Ring Door View Cam that you don't get with
any of the other doorbells that they bring to the table is that knock detection.
Let's go ahead and set that up. I've set the knock detection to low, this gives you the
ability to hear knocks on the doors. Maybe people don't understand how that there actually
is a doorbell on the Ring Doorbell Cam. They don't see it as distinct from your typical
peephole, so people can just knock.
Now I have someone knocked on the door view cam. It's pretty fun and a pretty useful element
for those of us who live in apartment buildings especially. If I want to go into general settings,
I can do so. Look at the "Baron Door View Cam" which is what I named this device. I
can change the name if I like, I can just call it "Ring Door View Cam" or whatever I
like.
I'm partial to "Baron Door View Cam." That's our look at the flexibility and options you
have with the Ring Door View Cam with the Ring - Always Home mobile application. Here
we are checking out the daytime vision of the Ring Door View Cam. It's that nice 1080p
high-definition, HDR. You can really see exactly who's at your door.
What's great is that we have a range of skin tones, so you can see exactly how people are
going to come out. You can see the tattoos on the back of this guys ear. You can see
in this next scene, my buddy. Even though it's night time with the light on, you can
see him quite well.
We were working here to try to turn off the motion alert light in my hallway from my apartment
so that we can get some better night vision for you all as we continue working on this
particular review. You can see him really well. He's not even directly in front of the
camera and you can get a good shot of him.
Now you see me going out the door. This is only a profile essentially, because I do not
look directly at the camera. You would definitely be able to pick me out of a line-up if that
were the case right now with the nice 1080p and that 155 field-of-view means you can see
my basically all the way out the door. You didn't be able to see me if I were going up
the steps.
Here I am checking out the night vision on the Ring Door View Cam. There's someone lingering
on the hallway, let's see how well we can make them out. If you note, even from the
doorway, them taking out their glasses, I can see pretty well. I can make out who it
is. Generally speaking, it's a nice solid perspective. I can make out the details of
their shirt.
I probably couldn't tell you what color it is, but that's actually better because I prefer
the infrared look. I'm impressed with the Ring Door View Cam's night vision.
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Gabe: OK, we've seen a lot with the Ring Door View Cam. If you're wondering, "Hey Gabe,
Is this the right video doorbell for me?" Look, if you want crystal clear 1080p high-definition
video with HDR, pretty solid night vision. You're going to get it with the Ring Door
View Cam. Couple that with the fact that it's not going to be a ton of work to set up.
You just need your WiFi connection, your mobile device and the Ring Door View Cam and you're
set. You'll be seeing exactly what's going on in front of your home. If you're someone
looking for artificial intelligence features, you might want to keep looking. You're just
not going to get that with the Ring Door View Cam.
Personally, if you're someone who lives in an apartment or condo like I do. The Ring
Door View Cam is a great option. Of course, if you have a traditional home, you can choose
this or you can choose one of the other options brought to you by Ring. For under $200, I
don't think you can go wrong with the Ring Door View Cam.
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Gabe: That concludes our review of the Ring Door View Cam. If you appreciate today's video,
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