Awesome Tips Ring Video Doorbell (2nd-gen) review: An affordable and solid upgrade
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The second-gen Ring Video Doorbell updates the original model and keeps the price at a reasonable $100. We take a close look at this revamped product to see if it’s the right fit for your porch.
We also look at how it fits into Ring’s revamped lineup alongside the Ring Video Doorbell Pro and the Ring Video Doorbell 3 and 3 Plus.
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I got it for 50 bucks on amazon
I'll pass ……….good video
I am new to this and am in the UK. Is it a one off payment of is it some kind of subscrription.
This guy is such an annoying reviewer…
Do not buy this rubbish, it is totally unreliable, it stops streaming for no reason, then you have to set the whole system up again from scratch, wifi password for chime pro and repeat for doorbell. If you really need CCTV, buy a proper camera, then you won't have these problems.
I think I’ll just stick with the $35 trail camera which I have mounted up high pointing down in the porch area
Doesn't want to detect motion
Yeah, that whole law enforcement thing needs a video, if you haven't already made one, that is. WA State over here. The RCWs are just… Clear as mud for apartment dwellers whose doors face the doors of other apartment dwellers. Not sure if I should buy this or not.
Just bought it on sale on Amazon for £59.99 including an echo dot. Can't complain. Only worrying part was the charging, but if I only have to do that for a few hours every 3 to 6 months, I can live with that 😌
You made feel a bit confused 🤔
So does it just sit on the wall bracket? Or Do you take it off the wall altogether for charging . I’m getting someone else to install so you know
I have a YI home camera for inside. And then the RING doorbell system for outside. only reason why I have these, if you ever been through a traumatic break in like my family and I did when I lived in Florida and maryland… these are worth it. one experience all it takes,better safe then sorry. I love these. never again where I will live somewhere without inside security and outside.
just wasted 2mins of my life
OUR RING DOORBELL HAS NEVER WORKED!
Our Ring Doorbell has never worked properly, from the day we had it fitted with all the cameras, by the professional team at Currys PC World, to this day 5 years later! I have called and called their Customer Support Team and have had one excuse after another… so we have bought other add ons, such as the solar panel at a cost to ourselves and had new batteries sent to us for free by Ring customer service, we have spent hours messing about on the phone with their Tech team with the app, altering the settings and re-setting the device… but it has never worked for longer than a day or two without runing out of battery, so we could use it when we go away … basically how they advertise it to be on TV! We first noticed when our neighbors popped round, as they had pressed the doorbell, expecting it to work, but it didn’t. I explained all of the problems we had been having with it, so we naturally compared ours to theirs, as they had recently bought the same Ring doorbell and said theirs worked perfectly!
So after being stalled and stalled by the customer service staff and sent new batteries and buying add ons… etc… to try to make the stupid thing work, we forgot about it… and just got on with our lives without the Ring doorbell! But every now and then, it would bug me that we spent all this money on a glorified doorbell that had NEVER worked, when a normal doorbell would just let us know when people were there… waiting at the door, so I put our normal doorbell back up out front with a sign saying that one didn’t work!
So I called again this morning, so see if ANYONE could shed any light on it… fix it or just help me get this stupid thing working…. and I was told this morning (FIVE YEARS LATER!!!)…that: “Its probably a hardware issue and we would need to replace the whole thing” … but naturally as its taken sooooooooo long to get to this point after hours and months and years of disappointment… there’s nothing they could do to fix it as it as its now out of warranty!
“However …I will send you a discount code so you can buy another one with some discount!!
When I asked the customer service agent WHY on gods green earth I would EVER want to buy another one, when this one had never worked? His answer was “ I guarantee this next one will work madam, you just had faulty hardware”
…So HOW can you guarantee THIS next one wouldn’t be faulty? Totally mental conversations… wastnig literally years of my life trying to fix this thing that I was told this morning, could just be a faulty one!
SO WHY DIDNT THEY SAY THIS EARLIER??????
So Frustrating and a ridiculous guarantee when I was just hoping it would have worked the first time… like when we originally bought it!
I will not waste any more time, energy or money on this product!!! I really feel like the CS staff just postponed my complaints and asked me to wait whilst they sent me batteries and then to wait to see if they worked… was all a rouse' to make it out of warranty so they didnt have to send me another one!
I know my neighbours works… but Im not going to chance it…
TOTAL WASTE OF TIME DONT BUY IT!
This dude is incredibly annoying.
Is it wireless ?
i got it RING 2nd gen with CHime 2nd gen for 99£ lol
More confused…voice extremes from high to low from really fast to slow makes it difficult understand what you're saying. Even pace please lol
Can I use this thru hotspot? Thanks.
All good until the doorbell button cover cracks or falls off after 18 months and there is only a 12 month warranty. The only solution seems to be to purchase a whole new unit because according to ring customer support, the plastic button cover itself is not a replaceable part. Many complaints about this on the ring community page.
They need to find a way of structurally embedding the camera to the home, with access on the inside of the home for maintenance. It's far too costly having such a pricey device at the mercy of Intruders. Perhaps with the permission of the home owner, place a specially made box on the outside of the house designed to somehow blend in with the decor. I don't think a plant pot will suffice …. Intruders know about that! … But if ' RING' can design a mini attractive, impenetrable box to protect the Camera, that would save a lot of money in damages.🇬🇧 UK
so you didn't remove your existing hardwire and use that spot. 2 doorbells. one on the wall and one crusty antique. just saying
Does it come with the speaker
This guy comes across as a complete muppet
Bought one refurbished from Amazon for £28 😊
this guy shouldn't be doing reviews. he thinks he's funny, but only his momma laughs. He really lacks the necessary skills.
Ekkekrje
I have a dog
Can you speak through this one?
I have this model, the only problem is if The Ring loose Wi-Fi connection, I would need to go to the Ring , open and press the orange button on the back to do re setting up again. Why can't it reconnect automatically like any other devices that uses Wi-Fi. If knew about this, I wouldn't have bought it. It's not convience.
don't buy. I bought the Ring floodlight because I needed it on my pc. now they are doing away with the pc app so I will be selling my ring camera and lights. stupid. so anyone who knows where I can get a camera with motion detection on Pc. let me know. don't try and call them they will keep you on hold for almost an hour. if they ever answer the phone. Ring sold to Amazon is now trash. don't buy.
just got mine with the chime for £99 from ring website, i know they come down in price but my son is moving out so i could not wait for the sales, amazon uk have sold out, thank you.