Ring has released the Ring Video Doorbell Pro:
Highlights are:
- Video is now 1080p
- Can now use 5GHz WiFi
- Motion detection settings are significantly better
Note that this one is HARDWIRE ONLY.
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And not to mention, they will now support live video if your current doorbell is hardwired and in 1-2 months, for battery powered doorbells. Sweet!
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YES! Live video! Finally!
Ring really does seem to be the best of the bunch at the moment. Plus, and those of you who know me know this is coming, it has a Windows 10 app. Iām diving into some reviews.
And they just raised $60+ Million in a third round. The news blurb I saw on that mentioned that theyāre selling 50k units/month. So, yeah, they look pretty solid. Now if they only had a proper ST integration.
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Iāve requested this on numerous occasions, to be honest the Wink integration isnāt all that extensive but Iād still take it. Thereās quite clearly something more at play as to why they havenāt integrated yet.
I just bought a ring doorbell 3 weeks ago and I also purchased a 1 year subscription to the cloud recording service but I donāt see any option for live video. When is this going to be released? FYI - My ring doorbell is hard wired into my doorbell.
What firmware version does it currently have? You may need to contact Ring support to get them to enable it for you.
My friend just had it enabled this week. I would contact their support like the other poster mentioned.
I contacted support via a support ticket using the app and the response I got is below:
Iām excited about this push!!
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How did you get that response? Iāve contacted them three times and basically been told to ābe patientā. Then they have the nerve to send me a survey about whether Iām satisfied with my request.
Wellā¦I just complained again and got a similar message about getting me into the next push. I guess timing is everything.
Yeah, I had to complain a couple of times. But after I opened a ticket in the ring app that got their attention and after 24 hours I had live video option.
Thereās currently a significant amount of their efforts currently devoted to ironing out the bugs on the Ring Pro before it goes to public so thatās possibly why youāre seeing delays now.
Iām sure once they have gotten on top of those they will be able to return to normal support issues quicker and rumour has it, there might be some official integrationā¦
Hereās hoping it doesnāt suck as hard as Ringās official integration with ADT Pulse. Nothing says āuselessā like a portal from one app that doesnāt actually show you anything but a link to open the other app.
Thatās what Iām concerned with too although from the sounds of it, the Wink āintegrationā is a little more thorough in that it can directly act on motion/button press with Robots which is all I really need Ring/ST to do - eliminate the IFTTT third party.
Viewing Ring video through ST would be nice but itās not a necessity.
Agreed. It would greatly simplify my RM automation that turns on the porch light at night when there is motion if I could remove the IFTTT part of the equation.
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How ever the idea of ST opening up a live window from Ring and also showing a list of your locks below it would be brilliant.
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Wonāt happen. Ring have integrated with ADT Pulse already and what it does is add each Ring doorbell as a separate camera in the Pulse app. But you canāt actually see the camera feed. It is just a link to open the frigginā Ring app from within the Pulse app. Pointless.
