so my wife and i have finally decided to
jump on the video doorbell bandwagon
and chose to go with the ring pro 2
as it is currently one of the highest
rated video doorbells
on the market as for what comes in the
box when you first purchase one
let's pull off this sticker thing here
and take a look
there is of course the ring pro 2 itself
which is designed to be connected to
your existing
doorbell wiring many other video
doorbells out there
are battery powered which requires you
to remove them every so often to
recharge them
this is great if your home doesn't
currently have a wired doorbell
but since we have a wired doorbell and
i don't want to hassle with charging the
batteries the
ring pro 2 being powered by our existing
wiring
was one of the reasons we chose it over
some of the other options out there
next in the box is this little guy
the ring pro power kit i'm not a hundred
percent sure what it does exactly but
according to the installation
instructions it makes sure
enough power is sent to the ring pro 2
for the doorbell to function properly
this little blue screwdriver is for
securing the
face plate of the ring pro 2 to the rest
of the unit
naturally ring doesn't want their
doorbells to be easy to steal
so instead of using a flathead or
phillips head screw
which are the two most common types of
screw heads
they use what is known as security torx
to be honest these kinds of bits aren't
exactly difficult to come by
in fact you can buy them at any hardware
store
however since they are far less common
most people don't own them so ring
included this screwdriver
with the doorbell next we have a little
baggie with some wire nuts and some wire
extensions
just in case your doorbell wires are too
short to connect to the ring
you can use these to extend them in this
same slot of the box we have another bag
with some wall anchors and screws to
mount the doorbell to
your wall this bag with the
c label on it contains the screws you'll
need to secure the ring doorbell
to the corner mount which will be
pulling out of the box shortly
and this final bag contains two security
torx screws
i guess ring is providing us with an
extra because you only need to use one
to secure the face plate to the doorbell
along with all the bags of screws we
have several pieces of documentation
this first one is the quick start guide
which encourages you to download the
ring
app to your smartphone or tablet scan
the qr code which i've blurred out here
and use it to set up your ring doorbell
if you use the app you're not going to
need to look at
the user guide here at all but for those
that prefer
a set of good old-fashioned paper
instructions
that's what you got here the last piece
of documentation
is basically your safety sheet and
contains
other information that ring is required
by law
to provide you the final two items in
the box are
this protected by ring sticker you can
put up in a window or
something somewhere or not and
this piece of plastic i referred to
earlier which
is the corner mount this bracket is for
people like me whose doorbell is
not on the same wall as their front door
but rather on a wall that runs
perpendicular to their front door
the ring doorbell sits in it like this
which gives it a better view of people
approaching your front door
now that we've got everything out of the
box it's time to
install this guy here
the first thing i did was install the
ring app to my
phone and once it was installed i was
prompted to either log
in or create a new ring account
since this is our very first ring
product i had to create a new account
once i'd created my account i needed to
verify my email address
and after that it asked if i wanted to
link my amazon account
which i chose to do i then set up
two-step verification
and had to input my address after which
i was
finally brought to this screen where i
could begin
setting up my ring pro 2. you tap on set
up a device
then tap on doorbells and this is where
you scan the qr code on the quick start
card
or the one on the bottom of the box
there's also one on the doorbell itself
under the faceplate
but i didn't find out about that one
until i was installing it
it then wants to know the address you're
setting up your doorbell
at which you have to let it use your
phone's location settings for
and then it will ask you to name your
doorbell based on where
it's being installed in my case the
front door
if you've already installed your
doorbell you can tap it's been installed
here
but i had not at this point so i tapped
no
i need to install it at this point the
app will begin giving you
step-by-step instructions on what to do
i first tapped on i have a wired
doorbell
and then it directed me to find my
doorbell chime
my chime is way up high in our hallway
and i had to get on a ladder to access
it
you then need to remove your chime cover
and the app will ask
if you have a mechanical or digital
chime
mine is a mechanical chime so i selected
that option
in the app and then it told me to turn
off the power
to our doorbell i headed out to my
garage where our breaker panel is and
thankfully the electricians that wired
my house
did a fantastic job labeling all the
breakers
and this one here labeled entry stair
lights
was the one that also provided power to
our doorbell
i then headed back to my doorbell chime
and loosened the two screws on the
doorbell wires here because
this is where we install the pro power
kit
following the instructions on the app
you need to install
one lead to the terminal labeled front
and the other
to the terminal labeled trans it doesn't
matter which wire you connect to which
terminal
you just need to connect them both and
then you're ready to mount the pro power
kit
on the back of the pro power kit is a
little piece of double-sided sticky tape
you remove the little paper thing that
protects the adhesive and then
stick it to a place where it will be out
of the way of any moving parts
in your doorbell chime with that done
you can replace the cover to your
doorbell chime
and move on outside in order to install
the ring doorbell we of course
first need to remove the old doorbell
i just had to remove the screws mounting
it to the wall
and then disconnect the wires from the
terminals on the back
the next thing the app instructed me to
do was install the
corner kit if your doorbell will face
straight out from your door
you don't need to use this but in my
case since our doorbell is located on a
sidewall
i chose to use it to give us a better
view of people coming to our door
i put the top screw into one of the
existing holes from
our old doorbell and then marked drilled
and installed the bottom screw to make
sure i mounted the doorbell
plumb and level i used this little
bubble level that's built into a pen
that was given to me several years ago
with the corner mount in place the next
step was to connect the wires to the
terminals
on the back of the ring pro 2. if your
existing doorbell wires are too
short at this point this is where you
want to use the wire nuts and the
extensions included in baggy d here
our old doorbell wires were plenty long
enough so i was able to connect them
directly
to the ring pro 2. the next step was to
secure the doorbell
to the corner mount apparently i missed
the memo about removing the faceplate
before connecting the wires because in
order to secure the doorbell to the
corner mount
or directly to a wall for that matter
you have to remove the faceplate and to
do this you pull on the edge of it
while simultaneously pushing on the face
of the doorbell like so
with the faceplate removed i grabbed
these screws out of package c here
and secured our ring pro 2 to the corner
mount
the last step of the installation
process was to attach the faceplate and
secure it in place
with one of the included security torx
screws
as nice as the silver faceplate looks
we wanted the doorbell to be all the
same color
so when we ordered it we also ordered a
black face plate to go with it ring
actually had
16 different colors of face plates for
the ring pro 2
and of course we found out after getting
ours fully installed and set up
ring offers you a complimentary
faceplate of your choosing to
match your home or just to have one in a
color you like
so yeah i didn't have to buy one
beforehand
i could have just gotten one for free
from ring
anyway back to the installation i placed
the faceplate on
and then used the included screwdriver
to secure it
to the doorbell and then all that was
left to do was
head back to my electrical panel and
turn the power on to our doorbell
as well as the entryway and some other
stuff
from here you go back to the ring app on
your phone or tablet
and follow the on-screen instructions to
get your ring doorbell connected to your
wi-fi
and complete the setup this is when
you'll set the motion zone which is
where you choose the area within the
camera's field of view you want motion
to be detected in
adjust the motion sensitivity and turn
3d motion detection on and off
among some other settings you can
customize to limit or increase the
amount of notifications you get
overall i feel the installation process
was
simple and it went very smoothly
since i was filming everything i did
along the way it took me somewhere
between
60 and 90 minutes to complete but i feel
like if i were to have done it without
filming everything
i could have installed it and had it all
set up in 30 to 45 minutes pretty easily
as for how well it works and what the
video quality and stuff is like
you'll have to check out my next video
where i take a look at all of that
as soon as i get it finished i'll link
it in both the cards of this video
as well as the video description since
this video is already longer than i'm
sure most people are going to want to
watch
it's probably a good idea that i just
call it here
before you go there's the youtube things
that help me out a lot
and if you'd like to pick up a ring pro
2 video doorbell of your own
you can check it out using the link to
my amazon store in the video description
i also have other stuff i featured in
past videos there if you're interested
in
taking a look at those too thanks so
much for watching i hope that you have a
great day
and perhaps i'll be seeing you in the
ring pro 2
review video shortly alright catch you
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