What's up guys it's Chris Majestic here with Majestechs.
Today we're going to be taking a look at the Ring Video Doorbell Pro.
So the Ring Video Doorbell Pro is going to be Ring's latest addition to their lineup
of HD cameras, following behind the Ring Stick Up Cam and the Original Ring Doorbell.
It's going to come with 5ghz Wifi, 2-way audio communication, 1080p video, and Advanced Night Vision.
Instead of Ring giving you the tough decision of choosing a color when you're in the store
buying it, they decided to include 4 different faceplate covers in the box so that's nice.
The Video Pro is going to be wired-only so you're not going to be able to use the Video Pro
unless you have wires there for your doorbell.
The doorbell itself is going to be considerably smaller than the Original Doorbell.
It's going to come with everything you need for installation including a screwdriver,
wiring kit, and a drill bit.
Another thing that's included here is what the call a Night Vision Booster and this is
going to be wired in-line with the power for the doorbell, usually wired to your mechanical
doorbell chime if you have one.
So the doorbell is going to be setup and managed through your mobile phone.
Now I do have to say I had some installation issues.
Even though I had everything wired correctly, the Night Vision Booster, when connected,
caused my doorbell not to chime.
When I removed the Night Vision Booster it kind of worked.
And I say "kind of" because instead of getting a "ding dong", I was just getting a "ding".
So I guess it was kind of halfway working.
After talking with Ring Support they wanted me to send them some pictures of my wiring.
I sent them everything they asked for but unfortunately the issue is still unresolved.
So this camera is going to work 1 of 3 ways.
It's either going to be triggered by motion, by someone pressing the doorbell button, or
you hitting the Live View button to see it.
And the video is going to pop up on your phone where you can actually communicate with the
person on the other end or just simply ignore the call.
When these events are triggered it's going to send those events out to the cloud.
Now, Ring does give you a free 30-day trial for the cloud service.
Once those 30 days are up it's going to either by $3 a month or $30 a year and you can access
these cloud recordings through the web app or through your phone.
Now as far as video quality goes this is going to be HD video.
They claim that it's 1080p.
It doesn't quite look like 1080p to me.
It seems to be only slightly clearer than the Original Video Doorbell, which was 720p.
It does have what they're calling Enhanced Night Vision, which works fairly well.
The only issue I have with the Night Vision is that it pretty much shows up in black and white.
Now I think I actually prefer the Original Video Doorbell for night vision since it shows
more color with the same amount of light.
That's going to be more of a matter of preference and I'll let you decide that.
Another thing about the video is that the field-of-view isn't as wide as the Original
Doorbell.
It's not going to be much of a problem because the field-of-view is plenty-wide.
However, the Original Doorbell had a 180-degree field-of-view.
The microphone actually has some pretty decent noise-cancellation.
(Speaking through Doorbell Pro) So this should give you a pretty good idea of sound and video
quality.
As you can see I have a lot of background noise.
There's a highway not far from my house so this will tell you if you can hear okay when
somebody is at your front door.
The only issue is that the speaker really isn't all that loud so the person on the other
end sometimes has a hard time hearing me.
The one place where this thing really shines is going to be the new implementation of the
Motion-Detection System.
So instead of using just a perimeter motion detection, this actually allows you to use
the video frame and select zones within the frame.
So you can select just a certain portion of the screen where you can that to be Zone 1.
You can select another portion to be Zone 2, and set different triggers for those zones.
This is really helpful for me because with the Original Doorbell it was picking up a
lot of trucks and buses coming up and down the street.
Now I just select everything below the street and I don't get any more false alarms.
As far as Wifi goes, they did add the ability to connect to 5ghz bands now.
Now I did test on both 5ghz and 2.4ghz and I really didn't notice a major difference
between the two.
It didn't seem to work any faster and the video quality didn't seem to change at all.
As far as overall operation, the wait-time really wasn't that long.
With my network it takes about 3-5 seconds for the notification to pop up on my devices.
Now I will note that with my Original Ring Doorbell I had absolutely no delays with the
doorbell chime, but several people have reported that there's a 3 second delay for mechanical
doorbell chimes.
I'm not sure why it works differently.
It may be something with may address in a future firmware update.
So at the time of this video the price of this doorbell is about $249, compared to $180-200
for the Original Doorbell, so you're looking at $50-70 more.
Unfortunately, I don't think I can really recommend this over the Original Ring Doorbell
at this time just because of some of the issues I'm experiencing with it.
The delays, the more narrow field-of-view, the night vision, the fact that the video
quality isn't really that much better.
However, if you're going for something that looks a lot more sleek and you don't necessarily
care about those things then it may work just fine for you and also keep in mind that Ring
does release regular updates for these devices, so they may address some of these concerns
in the future.
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