Gabe Turner: Hey, folks. This is Gabe at Security Baron, and today we are looking at the newest
entry in the Ring Cam lineup, the Ring Stick Up Cam Battery.
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Gabe: In today's review of the Ring Stick Up Cam Battery, we are going to be going over
some pros and cons, its design, its feature set, the in-station process, before diving
into its mobile application to make sure you have all the information you need to make
the right decision.
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Let's kick off today's review of the Ring Stick Up Cam Battery going over some pros
and cons, beginning with those pros. Now, right off the bat I want to talk about that
video quality. 1080p High Definition looks great. You can see things well, got 130-degree
diagonal field of view so it's capturing most everything taking place in a given space.
It also has infrared LEDs to help you see at night. You should not have to worry no
matter what's going on you're going to be able to see things clearly.
Now when it comes to where you can put it, well, just about anywhere because it is battery
powered. In fact, it doesn't even come with a power adapter to plug-in. It just has a
USB charging cable, you charge that battery and Ring purports that it will work for several
months afterwards.
Finally, we have to talk about the price. Coming in under $100, it's really impressive
that Ring has provided a device with so many features for so little money. When it comes
to cons, you don't have any artificial intelligence with the Ring Stick Up Cam Battery.
Generally, I can live with not having any artificial intelligence in terms of helping
me to cut down on one, the notifications as long as I have activities on it. Unfortunately
while you can adjust the motion sensitivity or turn off and on three predetermined motion
zones, you do not have the ability with the Ring Stick Up Cam Battery to draw your own
custom activity zones. That exacerbates the no artificial intelligence element.
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Gabe: Now that we've gone over the pros and cons for the Ring Stick Up Cam Battery, let's
go over its design and I just have to say right off the bat that I'm a big fun of the
direction that Ring is going in with its two most recent cameras, the Ring Indoor Cam and
the Ring Stick Up Cam Battery.
It is definitely a better design not only in terms of its pack is petite in this nice
white aesthetic but also in its mounting hardware, but this device you can only mount it from
the bottom but also from the back. You'll note here that the two weather sealing plugs.
Remember, this is IPX 5 weather resistant. Not only for the power adapter here which
you can buy separately but also the mounting hardware can go in the back.
You can actually place it in a different way. It actually swivels and the bottom comes off
if you just do a little quarter of a turn, eighth of a turn, and you can pop that battery
right out. Remember, this is a battery operated device. I think this is a really brilliant
way for Ring to give a lot more mobility and flexibility to the Ring Stick Up Cam. It's
got a basically flush front.
It has a little bit of protrusion from one side of the lens, but generally speaking of
your speaker here. I'm just a fan of this design on the Ring Stick Up Cam Battery.
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Now that we've gone over some of the pros and cons and the design on the Ring Stick
Up Cam Battery, let's about its feature set, beginning with that video quality. It's pretty
solid. It's got 1080p high definition, 130-degree field of view. If you notice in our indoor
shots, it's capturing everything pretty well. You can see me. You can see what's taking
place in the room.
There may be a little bit too much of a shadow on my face at certain distances, but overall,
you can definitely make out my features I and know who I am. When you extend that to
the outside, you may note that it's pretty reasonable. It's not going to be the best
because we're about 30 to 40 feet up high, and the subjects below are just very far away.
For that, it's capturing it pretty well.
You can definitely see what's taking place on the little alleyway below us. When it comes
to night vision, it's picking things up in a really nice way. It's got two infrared LEDs,
but I'm actually surprised at how well those two infrared LEDs pick up what's taking place.
I feel like you can really make out my features and see me pretty well with the night vision
on the Ring Stick Up Cam Battery.
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Gabe: The Ring Stick Up Cam Battery is equipped with two-way audio. That two-way audio actually
gives you the ability to have a conversation or listen in on whatever's happening in front
of your Ring Stick Up Cam Battery.
In our test, we found it pretty easy to carry on a conversation, to tell people what was
going on, and to hear what was happening in the room or in the vicinity of our Ring Stick
Up Cam Battery. This is what the audio sounds like on the Ring Stick Up Cam Battery.
If you're one who wants to co-save or share or just download the clips you have from your
Ring Stick Up Cam Battery, you may have to sign up for the Ring Protect plan. The Ring
Protect Plan gives you 60 days of cloud storage for three dollars a month or $30 a year.
It's going to be necessary if you want to download those clips and do anything beyond
just a live viewing or getting a notification that something's taking place. A great feature
of the Ring Stick Up Cam Battery is its integration with the Amazon Virtual Assistant. What that
means is you control your device just using your voice or even inside the Amazon Virtual
Assistant mobile application.
One particularly lovely use of the Ring Stick Up Cam Battery and the Amazon Virtual Assistant
is the ability to take whatever this is recording and view it in a livestream on one of your
Amazon Echo Show devices. With any home security camera, the ability to control the number
of notifications you get to your mobile device is really important. With some, you can use
artificial intelligence.
That's not an option with the Ring Stick Up Can Battery. However, it does give the ability
to do a few things. One thing is just decide when you're going to be getting your motion
alerts by setting up a motion schedule. You can then decide how frequently you want to
get notifications to your phone. Finally, you can actually set the motion sensitivity.
If you have that barrier all the way to the top, anything that goes by, any tree that
rustles, is going to set off your camera. You can have set up where it's not going to
be set off by anything that's not the most obvious, the most unsubtle movement in a particular
space.
Those are some options you have for reducing or increasing the number of notifications
you get due to motion alerts with the Ring Stick Up Cam Battery. The final thing I want
to talk about with the Ring Stick Up Cam Battery is not related to what you can see with it,
but rather what you cannot see. That is a new featured privacy zones.
Privacy zones basically allow you set up a space where it will not take in any visual
information. It becomes a literal black box, in terms of what it's going to pick up. It's
really fascinating because you can put it anywhere on the screen and as soon as something
walks into that space, it virtually disappears. You do not know what's happening.
That's really interesting that they thought there's probably places in people's homes
where they don't want any activity to be seen. That's a really interesting element. That's
our look at the feature set on the Ring Stick Up Cam Battery.
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Gabe: Now that we know about the feature set on the Ring Stick Up Cam Battery, let's talk
about the installation process, beginning with the digital installation process, which
is pretty straightforward. There's a QR code on the bottom of this device. You're going
to use this to actually set it up in your mobile app.
Before you do that, you're going to take this battery, use the included USB charging cable.
Make sure that it's completely charged up because this is a set it and forget type device.
Once you have you battery set up, you've scanned the QR code during the set up for the Ring,
you're ready to go. Then it's just a physical installation process.
In our case, we have indoor and we can place it like so. You also have mounting hardware
on the bottom that you can use to put it anywhere outside if you want to have it in a certain
direction. You can also place it directly on the back. This is where you can have new
mounting hardware to have it in different orientation.
Overall, pretty straightforward, the various video tutorials provided by Ring to help you
no matter how you want to get this thing situated in your home. Overall, we have to say it's
very easy digital and physical installation with the Ring Stick Up Cam Battery.
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Gabe: Now that we've got our Ring Stick Up Cam Battery installed, let's talk about the
mobile app, the Ring Always Home app that has a 2.8 out of 5 star rating in the Google
Play store and a 3.2 out of 5 star rating in the Apple app store, which is not the greatest,
but we do want to state that that does reflect the Ring app across all devices.
This is where you'll be doing most of your work with the camera so let's go ahead and
check it out on my iPhone 7 Plus. Here I am checking out the Ring Always Home app with
my Ring Stick Up Cam Battery. I've called this device panda because I don't want my
Amazon virtual assistant to get it confused with any other Ring products. Let's go ahead
and jump into that live view.
You can see here, you can see me pretty well. Hello. How you doing? Note that you can go
and listen to it by tapping on the speaker on the bottom right-hand corner. It's a pretty
solid view. You can look at it in landscape, or you can look at it in portrait mode like
this. Now, let's go ahead and jump out of here and go into the settings.
Now, you'll see at the top it has record in motion, below that has motion alerts, which
I've turned off because I don't actually want to have this going off over and over again
as I sit in front of it.
If I clicked on that I could go in, of course, I've turned off notifications and that's something
you would have to switch out. We've already jumped into the live view. Let's go ahead
and check out that event history. Now for event history, I just jumped into a live view
so you can see that.
You can see various active motion or motion. You can look by specific activity, you can
look for motion activity, live view activity. Let's go ahead and I'll show you how you would
actually save that. I wanted to save this last video, I would go in the bottom right-hand
corner.
You'll see right along the bottom of various options pop up, you've got Facebook, you've
got neighbors, you got email, you got text, or you got that download button. I can just
download this directly to my phone, or I could decide to text it to someone or email someone,
or post it to my Facebook.
I don't actually want to go and prepare and send this video out, so let's go ahead and
jump out and go back. Now you'll see to the right of the event history, you've got motions
news.
Unless you turn off all motion detection, for example, you're going to be in that room,
maybe even taking a nap, taking an actual snooze. You don't want to be alerted to motion
detection, you can go ahead and turn it off for 30 minutes, two hours, four hours.
I'd love to take a four-hour nap right about now. If I jump out of here, I can of course
go to my device settings. This is where you can be doing the bulk of your work when it
comes to customizing your experience with your Ring Stick Up Cam Battery. You've got
motion setting where you can choose the sensitivity.
This is a little bit different than what you may be expecting because it really just shows
where it's going to be. Basically, giving you notification. If you want the max, it's
going to be super sensitive to what's going on. If you don't want that maybe, you can
turn it down a little bit more.
Then of course, you can tap a zone to turn motion detection off or on in that area. I
can tap there, and now it's not going to give me any motion detection there. I can turn
it back on, I can adjust to the middle, or even the left side. Let's go ahead and keep
it on for all those spaces.
Going back, you have another option, which is the motion verification which basically
reduces onward notifications and turns recordings of motion stops before the recording ends.
We can turn that off, turn it back on, and then it'll lead to let you know that it will
use additional video processing, which can delay most notifications. Let's cancel turn
that on for now and go to motion schedule. I have one rule already set up.
That's my English Premier League rule, which means between 7:00 and 12:00 I will not have
my alarm going off, my camera going off because it knows I'm in the living room watching the
Premier League. If I want to add a new one, I could.
Set a new schedule, maybe I don't want to hear anything Monday morning between 8:00
and 9:00, when I know I'm home. Probably 7:00 and 8:00, it's probably better, usually out,
8:00, and voila. Now that's my new rule that I had just for Monday mornings.
Beyond that, you can go into motion frequency where you can decide on how often you want
to be notified and you want it to capture various motions. You kept on light which is
the best for your battery life because remember, this is an indoor and outdoor camera.
Maybe you don't want to plug it in, I just want to use the battery that comes with it,
you can go to standard frequent, which of course, reduces your battery life, if your
pen is not wired or solar powered. Now if I go into video settings, you know that have
the ability to look at your live view.
Turn your infrared lights on for night vision, decide if you want to be actually streaming
audio and recording audio, depending on that privacy level. There's one thing that is new
to the Ring Stick Up Cam battery that we wanted to check out, which is the privacy zones.
You can add a privacy zone, which is interesting.
This is a space where your device will not be able to see. Typically, you can setup places
where you want it to especially see with Ring cameras and other cameras on the market, but
this is a place where you especially don't want it to see, so I hit plus. I can actually
add a privacy zone, which is going to appear as a black box.
I just hit privacy zone one, hit done. You'll note that now nothing can be seen in that
space, which is something we have not seen before. It's pretty interesting and something
I'm anxious to see how it works in the future.
Privacy zones are new feature to the Ring Always Home app with your Ring Stick Up Cam
Battery. Finally, you can go into your alerts settings, deciding your different app alert
sounds, the link chimes, things of that nature.
Your general settings, which allow you to name your device it tells you where it's located,
and how you have it installed. Overall, I think it's a pretty easy straightforward and
intuitive process for using the Ring Always Home app with your Ring Stick Up Cam Battery.
Here I am checking out the 1080p high definition video in a live stream on the Ring Stick Up
Cam Battery. You can see it looks pretty good. You can capture things in this room pretty
well because that 130-degree field of view. Really can see what's happening. I can look
around. It's solid, it's beautiful.
It's really working for me. Give a little bit of a globe test. What do we have here?
Mostly the ocean. See we can get a little bit of some Australia action, little Asia.
You look at the digital zoom, things are nice and clear. Overall I'm pretty pleased with
the video quality on the Ring Stick Up Cam Battery.
Here I am checking out the night vision on the Ring Stick Up Cam Battery and you know
that is pretty solid. It's got two infrared LEDs trained on my visage, so you can see
things pretty well. You can make me out. You can see my beard, my glasses.
You can see me just articulating back and forth as if I am conducting an orchestra.
Now if I go and do a little globe test, you note that with the zoom you can see this subcontinent,
Indian subcontinent, and Asia, Australia, it's all looking pretty solid.
Overall, I'm pleased with how well the night vision and the two infrared lights function
on the Ring Stick Up Cam Battery.
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Gabe: All right, we've come a long way with our Ring Stick Up Battery and you're wondering,
"Gabe, is this the right camera for me?" Let me break it down for you.
It is a 1080p High Definition camera. The video quality is super-hot. It is an indoor-outdoor
camera that's battery powered. You can fully charge it and forget about it for a number
of months. Finally, you're getting all of that for under $100. Sub 100 you just don't
see that.
If you're looking for artificial intelligence, it's not going to happen with your Ring Stick
Up Cam Battery. If you're looking for advanced motion features that be cut down the notifications,
it could probably do a little bit better in that arena. If you're looking for a camera
at this price point, the Ring Stick Up Cam Battery is really bringing a lot to the table.
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Gabe: That concludes our review of the Ring Stick Up Cam Battery. If you appreciate today's
video, give us a like and hit that subscribe button. As always, this is Gabe at Security
Baron, be secure.