well, gave up on it.
I must have a defective one.
It refuses to work with any mechanical or digital chime, I went out and bought the recommended mechanical and the hampton bay model from Home Depot listed on the compatible chime kit.
All the chimes worked perfectly with the standard button and the digital worked outstanding with the button and the diode.
I guess it's possible the little power kit module is bad, but I did try it with the one provide with the ring.
The other big show stopper is the camera white balance, exposure and who knows what else is not set properly. Bright sun appears as solid white with a sharp line at the shade.
I was unable to set the exposure using the IVMS software on windows 10 the sliders for the 3 image settings were grayed out.
I think the big problem is they should have implemented the button press as a standard button so the external diode would work, first and formost these things should ring the
darn chime with no delay. Even on the Ring Pro it does not work properly with digital chimes and only plays the chime for 10 seconds then shuts off and since no diode is present
the chime has zero power to set the tune or pair a wireless
doorbell. You can only set the chime tune when it's actually playing, while with the standard button and diode this
is not a problem. the Ring Pro also has a delay in activating the chime, like 2 or 3 seconds and it appears it rings the actual chime last and does the other stuff first.
The other issue is the wifi is super weak especially the 5gz, the router is only 12 feet away and the 5gzh couldn't even get one bar on the signal and that is with a 16v 30mv transformer.
Oh well back to Amazon it goes.
