All-new Ring Video Doorbell – 1080p HD video, improved motion detection, easy installation – Satin Nickel (2nd Gen) Review

Product Description

Door Bell

Key features

Monitor your home, your way

Monitor your home, your way with the all-new Ring Video Doorbell. Enjoy improved 1080p HD video, crisper night vision, and adjustable motion zones – including the added near zone that reduces false notifications.

See who’s there with Ring

See, hear, and speak to anyone at your door from anywhere with Ring Video Doorbell. Get real-time notifications when visitors press your doorbell or trigger the built-in motion sensors. And adjust your motion settings so you can focus on key areas and only receive notifications when you want.

Complete control from the Ring app

Create a Ring of Security with the Ring app. Connect to all your Ring devices to see what's happening from a single dashboard, adjust your motion settings, and use Live View to check in on your home at any time.

Ring Protect Plan

Get even more out of all your Ring devices with Protect, a comprehensive service that lets you review what you missed. See, save and share videos and photos when you activate video recording and photo capture for $3/month per device or $10/month per household .

Security and privacy controls in a convenient dashboard

With Control Center, you can add and remove authorized client devices, shared users, and select linked accounts–all from one place on your phone, tablet, or PC.

Works with Alexa

Connect Ring Video Doorbell with Alexa for hands-free monitoring and convenience. When your video doorbell detects motion, your Echo device or Fire TV device will alert you, so you always know who’s there. And when you ask Alexa to talk to your front door, you can see, hear and speak to anyone captured on camera

Features & details

• 1080p HD video doorbell with enhanced features that let you see, hear, and speak to anyone from your phone, tablet, or PC.
• An update from the original Ring Video Doorbell, enjoy improved motion detection, privacy zones and audio privacy, and crisper night vision.
• Receive mobile notifications when anyone presses your doorbell or triggers your built-in motion sensors.
• Powered by the built-in rechargeable battery or connects to existing doorbell wires for constant power.
• Easily setup by connecting your Ring Video Doorbell to wifi through the Ring app and mounting with the included tools.
• With a Ring Protect Plan (subscription sold separately), record all your videos, review what you missed for up to 60 days, and share videos and photos.
• Pair with select Alexa-enabled devices to enable announcements and two-way talk for convenient in-home monitoring.

Very  happy with this $100 door bell

I don't understand why so much bad reviews ?
I received this cam today, already installed at my front door, connected with Ring app... It was so easy !
Picture is clear, 1080HD, wired with my previous bell switch, no worries about the battery...
Set up with Ring app takes 10 seconds, same for Alexa, same with my Fridge Samsung Family hub... again, so easy
Only one thing matters, a good WiFi. It's the key ! I use 3 Eero pro so I have a strong Wifi everywhere inside and outside of my home but you can also use the Ring Chime pro, less expensive then Eero. It works well, I confirm and I was not paid for this review

Better video quality, poor installation and mounting (Updated 6/6/2020)

I had the original Ring Doorbell for about a year and really enjoyed it. It was cheap but lower quality video resolution. It was fine for the time I had it. When the same thing with improved video was being released, I jumped on it. I received it today and got it installed. The video quality is night and day as shown in the photos and much better than the 1st generation. Good work ring. Unfortunately, the installation and mounting sucks compared to the 1st generation. Why they did this, I have no clue but here are the issues.

1. The mounting plate on the first generation has connections for the wiring. This made it very easy to remove the device and charge, especially in the winter months where we live and the batteries lose charge. 2nd generation has a mounting plate and the wiring on the back of the unit, which was a pain especially when the existing wire is not very long. This will be a nightmare having to remove this and recharge compared to the 1st generation. I had no issues with the 1st generation. This is a failure for Ring in my opinion. I am debating about keeping my 1st generation instead of this now.

2. The mounting of the device to the frame also sucks. The 1st literally had no gaps and was secure in my opinion. It had guides that made the doorbell align to the mount. The 2nd generation does not and there are gaps all the way around and loose. I mounted it no differently than before, in fact the holes for 1st and 2nd generation are identical which is a plus, but again I see this mounting as a failure for Ring.

I literally just installed this, and outside of the perfect video, I can’t attest to motion and nightvision yet. I am disappointed in the execution of mounting the device. I have no idea why this changed this from the 1st generation but this was a bad move in my opinion. I still have no idea why these require a battery they never stay charged when connected to wiring, but I assume this unit will have the same issue for me as well come winter. They really need to rethink the whole battery idea and have a hardwired version and battery version or fix the way these thing function when power is applied. At this point I may deal with it and hope Ring fixes these mounting and wiring flaws. If this mounted the same way as the 1st generation, I would not be writing a review because I had no issues with the device other than the battery and that wasn’t enough for me to write a review. Excellent otherwise but seriously why did you change the way these mount?

***Update 6/6/2020***

So I decided to keep it primarily because I had already offered to sell my 1st generation to a neighbor, but I did end up having to make some changes. Ultimately I bought some spade terminals and soldered them to my doorbell wire with heat shrink tubing (Ring provided in older versions, but not this one for some reason). While it was easy for me, it won’t be for others. Overall I am still upset over this mounting as it is extremely poor execution when the previous version was perfect. I guess this is Rings way to get the price down to $99 by cutting corners. The doorbell it self seems quality but mounting just plain sucks. I have no other words for it. You can see my updated photos of what I did. There are two photos that show the camera quality difference. The low quality image is from a generation 1 ring and the better quality HD is from the generation 2 ring. Night vision appears to be decent and motion the jury is still out because of the People only filter. I am still trying to tweak it. I am still leaving only 3 stars because of the mounting issues and there is still a gap between the mounting plate and the doorbell. Maybe Ring will fix and send everyone a new mount, but that is wishful thinking.