Hi Tibimakai,I'm considering buying a Ring doorbell, but do I really need it, if I install a wedge camera?
There is a way, to have two way communication with somebody in front of the door?
I'm not buying into the "need" for 2 way audio at all. Maybe I'm missing something but I have no desire to talk to someone from my phone if I'm not there. What do you talk about?
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Also, aren't you telling that person that nobody is home, feel free to kick the door down. IDK, I just don't get it.
That may be the point, but background noise can reveal that you are not home.The whole point of answering the doorbell in real time is to give the impression that your ARE home - tell the person that you are busy and cannot come to the door, or not interested in whatever excuses they came up with on ringing your door.
Can you post pics when you get it installed?Thank you all, I have already picked one Ring Pro up, from CL brand new sealed, for $150 and I'm in the process of installing it. I had to cut the wall for a box, run electricity into it from the sensor light.n
I did not have a wired doorbell, just wireless. It actually works with my existing doorbell as well. The only disadvantage is, that It seems that I will have to use a transformer, for the inside doorbell unit as well.
It used to run on batteries.
I'm installing a transformer inside the box. I'm using, one of those one gang blue plastic boxes. I will be placing a silver colored blank metal cover over it, and I will install the camera, on top of that cover.
I won't be using the cloud storage, because I have my own security system.
Above it, I will install the wedge camera anyway.
Cool I may look into doing something similar but not sure yet.Here it is. It is not a perfect installation, but it will do for a while. I'm planning to repaint the house in the next couple of months, so I will be blending it in, even better then.
I have just purchased this house, last year.
i have the Ring Pro and a mini dome above the door and a U starlight for the driveway leading to the door. If i were honest, the Ring is 4x as useful as the other two, especially for my wife who works from home, who gets alerts when people approach the door, and can decide to ignore it, answer it via the app, or stop working ad answer it in person. It is the first camera type i would recommend to most people. I am happy with having the three that i have now, and will be adding a fourth to capture another angle when i am away. 99% of human activity is at my front door, so i want to capture it. Having a good video intercom system is a big first step. I just wish they were a little bit better.