the ring video doorbell - is an update on one of the most popular video
doorbells so some new features with the ring video doorbell but the basic
concept hasn't changed inside the doorbell is a camera and a motion sensor
when someone comes near your front door or presses the doorbell button you're
going to get a little dirt on your phone if they press the doorbell button you
get what looks like a video call which you can ignore or you can take if you do
take it then you can speak to and watch the folks in front of your front door
listen to what they're saying and have a conversation with them the important
thing is that they don't know if you're at home and just too busy to come to the
front door or if you're outside of your house so there's a security aspect to
this too one of the big changes with the version 2 is an upgrade in video
resolution pictures should be slightly sharper and clearer because the
resolutions gone from 720p high-definition up to 1080p
high-definition the doorbell can be run on a battery or wired if you have
existing doorbell wiring then hooking it up is easy and that's what you should do
but if you don't have door bow wiring then you can use the internal battery
one of the big changes is that with the previous version you had to take the
entire unit off your wall to recharge it once every so often the new video
doorbell has a battery that simply pops out of the bottom installation is pretty
easy ring does a really good job of giving you all of the tools that you
need plus there are adapters in there and if you're upgrading from the
previous version there's even an adapter so you can keep the same screw holes so
it's a really nice touch and something very thoughtful motion detection is
based on infrared so it's looking for movement in sources of heat this is an
older and not as sophisticated motion detection system as a video motion
detection but in all of the testing we've done video motion detection has
been really difficult to fine-tune we were getting a lot of false alarms not
just with other video doorbells work with security cameras as well infrared
is a more basic technology but it's a bit more reliable if you just want an
alert when it sees something and someone walking by the system does allow you
some adapting of the sensitivity in the app you can take a look at a
screen that gives you a rough estimate for how far in advance of the sensor you
are sensing you also have some basic control over the motion detection area
that it's looking at and you can set time zones as well so if there's a
certain time of the day when you don't want the motion detection switched on
that's all settle in the app as well the camera also supports night vision of
course so you're gonna be getting a picture and you're gonna be getting a
detection both day and night when you put the doorbell on your house you get
live video for no extra cost you've paid for that it's using your Wi-Fi network
in your data you're done but if you want it to start recording clips when it
detects motion or when someone comes to the door you're gonna have to pay
because it needs to put them somewhere and that someplace is rings cloud
storage service ring charges three dollars a month per camera $30 a year
which is on the cheaper side versus some of the competitors if you're looking for
a complete outside of your house security system ring sells other
security cameras you'll be able to access them all through one app and if
you do that you do start to get some discounts in the cost once you get above
three cameras ring three dollars a month per camera but ten dollars a month will
allow video storage for an unlimited number of cameras so if you're going to
go big then that might be something to consider because you can tie this all
together it then also means that you get everything in one app but ring doesn't
at the moment have an indoor security camera so at the moment you're limited
to outdoor security with ring the camera itself costs a hundred and ninety nine
dollars it's often on sale for less than that so definitely shop around if you
are intending to buy it tech I've rated it 4 out of 5 if you
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