Had mine up for about 5 weeks now, hate it, getting rid of it. Such a huge disappointment. You don't actually get all the features from the system unless you pay for a Ring.com account. I cannot record videos to my NAS for example.
I also own an Echo Show 8 device. I thought that this will be the perfect pairing, but I was totally wrong. When motion is detected at the front door, I am notified really quickly, but that is where it all ends. If I then ask my Echo Show 8 device to "show my front door", the stupid system needs to make a connection to the Ring.com mothership first. I have fast 100mbps HFC NBN cable service, and if I am lucky, by the time the Echo Show 8 has made a connection with Ring.com and then has then displayed a live view from my ring camera, I am lucky if I am not seeing the back of the delivery man's OH&S hi vis vest passing my letterbox at the end of my driveway as he walks away from the house. About 1 out of every 10 times, the system times out trying to connect to Ring.com. Such a huge disappointment.
As another example, if I get the "motion detected at the front door" notification on all my echo device around the house goes off, and I say to my Echo Show 8, "show my front door" to see who is leaving the house, I am lucky for it to start showing the live video before my wife for example has reached the back of her car parked out on the street. It is just too slow.
It is not so bad if the person at the front door presses the doorbell, but even then, the ability to talk to the person at the door is far from satisfactory. Often the sound is garbled and full of dropouts, like a really bad mobile phone connection, or worse. This is despite me having a wired ethernet connection to a "point of presence" wireless range extender just 3 metres from the front door.
Frankly, if the reliance on the woefully slow and non-necessary ring.com was not a product killer, then the flaky voice performance is certainly the straw that breaks the camel's back.
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Kathleen E.
Check this thief out
Reviewed in the United States on 16 January 2021Colour Name: Venetian BronzeVerified Purchase
RED
don't waste your money!
Reviewed in the United States on 3 February 2021Colour Name: Satin NickelVerified Purchase
D. Molder
Be Aware of the Subscription Required
Reviewed in the United States on 13 March 2021Colour Name: Venetian BronzeVerified Purchase
K. Valkoren
Hard pass on Ring Doorbell
Reviewed in the United States on 7 January 2021Colour Name: Venetian BronzeVerified Purchase
JB
Gimmick for subscription, worthless
Reviewed in the United States on 18 February 2021Colour Name: Venetian BronzeVerified Purchase
Gimmick for subscription, worthless
Reviewed in the United States on 18 February 2021
This product is a gimmick. Works perfectly up until your free trial ends, which coincidentally lasts up until the Amazon return window. The night the trial expired the camera's live view refused to work and since then 9/10 times you get the screen down above. No change to Wi-Fi distance or settings, does not work either on computers, cell phones, or iPads. Only change was that we didn't opt to pay the monthly Ring fee for storage of video which I'm fairly certain it does internally. Additionally, there were 0 (zero) false alarms with motion detection during the first month while the free trial was active, when it expired at the 30 day mark we get random motion detection, mostly at night. Probably some ploy to make you feel insecure and buy more ring devices and subscribe so that you can see what set it off since you can't access the live feed.Reviewed in the United States on 18 February 2021
This reminds me of cell phone manufacturers intentionally slowing down phones to get you to buy a new one. Now I have a very expensive doorbell that doesn't do anything else that a $10 at the hardware store couldn't do.
In short, don't waste your money. Buy something else, anything else.
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