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Ring's New $199 'Ring Alarm' Security System Now Available for Pre-Order
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Sigh. Notification on my Watch. It’s called vibrate on the phone, Taptic feedback on the Watch.
Currently, I have a Scout system, without monitoring. Plus, several Wyze cams. If I would get an alert when I’m not at home, I can check on things with the cameras. The cameras also have motion detection, with alerts. If need be, I’ll call the police.
If I am at home, sleeping, I will hear the alarm. Again, I would call the police.
Realistically, having signs in your yard, stickers on your doors and windows, is enough of a deterrent. I’ve saved hundreds of dollars over the years not paying for monitoring.
Also, I stated my opinion. If you don’t agree...good for you. I’m still right. It’s my money. Be Best!
If someone breaks in you don’t really have TIME to call the police. Especially under pressure and startled in the middle of the night. Also, I got a home insurance discount that covers a majority of the monitoring cost.
And if you’re on vacation, or have no signal, or MISS the Watch notifications?
And if your partner etc is home when a break-in happens? Oy. You get the notification, wonder if it’s a false alarm etc etc. Clock is ticking...
Bottom line is that yes - you’re saving money (maybe - again, State Farm gives me a substantial discount for active monitoring). And I have far greater peace of mind.
And with Ring for $100 a year? I’d get PAID by State Farm to have it.
Then again, you have a Scout system. So the chance of ever getting a notification in case of an actual burglary is 50% at best. I also have Scout and its very unreliable with sensors disconnecting, batteries draining, the app logging out, siren too quiet, unresponsive door panel, ... very dissapointing customer service as well. Got it from Kickstarter but would never recommend it. I have it connected to HomeKit so it automatically arms and disarms based on our location so we don’t have to interact with it much. But wouldn’t buy it again.Sigh. Notification on my Watch. It’s called vibrate on the phone, Taptic feedback on the Watch.
Currently, I have a Scout system, without monitoring. Plus, several Wyze cams. If I would get an alert when I’m not at home, I can check on things with the cameras. The cameras also have motion detection, with alerts. If need be, I’ll call the police.
If I am at home, sleeping, I will hear the alarm. Again, I would call the police.
Realistically, having signs in your yard, stickers on your doors and windows, is enough of a deterrent. I’ve saved hundreds of dollars over the years not paying for monitoring.
Also, I stated my opinion. If you don’t agree...good for you. I’m still right. It’s my money. Be Best!
Also: you can’t purchase a new scout without monitoring. They force you to take a plan as they figured out it’s an unsustainable business otherwise.
I wonder if you can setup a geofence to activate/deactivate the alarm when your phone leaves your house?
Get out! Who knew?!
That's why it is nice to get the $20 break on the annual plan.
I really like Ring. I know quite a few of individuals who have this installed and has become quite useful in multiple ways. It’s a great device to help law-enforcement in investigations who decide to try to steal packages.
And Ring also made an interesting comment in an article that surfaced in my area discussing thefts. :
“The company says the device has provided evidence in about 800 "crimes of opportunity" since September of 2007.”
And Ring also made an interesting comment in an article that surfaced in my area discussing thefts. :
“The company says the device has provided evidence in about 800 "crimes of opportunity" since September of 2007.”
There are a lot of times I'm away form the phone or don't have reception (when flying for example), so it makes sense to have the alarm monitored. My home insurance carrier gives me $70 a year off for having a monitored alarm, so that covers most of the monitoring fee.
I could see trying to monitor yourself I suppose if you don't travel much.
For me, the wired Ring cameras seem to connect better than most of the others. However, the battery Ring camera does have some difficulty with connecting at times. The battery Arlos, seem to connect a little better than the battery Ring camera. At least that is what I have experienced with them.
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This past winter, (I live in Montreal suburbs) the wired Ring seem to work most all winter. However, all the battery ring and arlos stopped working when temps got below about -5C. That happened quite often. I would get a message in the app that it was too cold for camera operation. Just hoped it was also too cold for thieves to operate as well.
You may need to check your connection. Mine is almost instant... it buffers a couple seconds also so you get the video clip before there is any movement
I have been very much looking forward to this announcement. I think a coworker told me they were being sued by ADT and it was thrown out which is why this is moving forward now or something? Anyway, it's a heck of a deal at $10/mo including the cloud video. I like how well integrated everything is and the wireless LTE connection to the police. Some people don't want to pay this, but it's WAY cheaper than solutions like ADT with way more benefit, IMO, especially since it includes the cloud DVR. And when I'm on vacation I'll get an alert in the middle of the night that doesn't even wake me up about motion (just raccoons) but still, I'd rather have the peace of mind knowing that if someone actually enters the home that Ring is monitoring that. I have the front doorbell and rear floodlight. These are the only beefs I have with Ring:
- No way to snooze motion alerts for all devices at once or for longer than two hours. But I don't want to completely turn them off for the entire weekend when the kids are playing in the yard or when I'm mowing and trimming. We're often out and about as well as around the house on weekends and it varies.
- Sometimes things like trees or tree shadows moving because of the wind will trigger motion alerts. Or when my landscaping lights in the front turn off during the night. Even on the second lowest setting. Maybe I just need to turn it down to the lowest, but I worry about it recognizing people in the dark.
- They still haven't delivered the HomeKit support they promised for the Pro doorbell and the floodlight. It's upsetting. I think they support WeMo, and they recently released a bridge that I could try, but the main thing is I want motion at my doorbell to turn on the five 1000 lumen can floodlights I have across the front of my house.
- I'm skeptical of Amazon owning them now. These sensors in the home don't record video and it seems like the sound modules will only be listening for loud sounds from smoke detectors, so even if Amazon ends up spying, at least it's only on the outside of my home which I don't care as much about. The outdoor mics don't have very great range anyway so I'm not really concerned at this point.
I agree... still waiting one this promise. If they implement Homekit, the Ring/Amazon brand will dominate the market.
I too, get this buffered effect for the hard wired Ring and the plug in wired Arlo Q, which is great, giving you a few seconds before the action starts. This does NOT happen though, with the battery Arlos or Ring.(at least on my battery ones, it does not). Both battery Arlos and Ring tend to start after the action starts, sometimes several seconds after the acton starts.
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I too, have this problem with quite a few false alarms with moving trees and/or moving shadows from trees on the ground with windy sunny days. Even lowest setting, still picks that up. Not sure how, but wish there were a way they could distinguish between that.
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I bought into Blink... I hope they merge their, now, 3 lines together. This just looks more attractive than the Seecurity thing coming for Blink. I can always mix-and-match... the flood sensor would be clutch for me, that sump pump is a necessary evil for me.
Will probably require a newer version with more sophisticated machine learning capability. Though Amazon could help with this. They could maybe upload a few frames quickly and run some more advanced image analysis before determining whether or not it should alert us. It would be nice if there was a button that we could press called "false alarm" and it could then train it to know that it should disregard data similar to that.
Another thing is I wish it would trigger based on sound. We had a lot of loud gunshots go off behind our house in the woods a few months ago and it was so loud we hit the deck in our house and crawled to our children's rooms to move them to a front room on the opposite end of the house while we waited for the police. A neighbor picked up the recording because it triggered his—I think it was a Nest cam?—and the sound of the shots was very clear. We live near the edge of town but you're not allowed to shoot in city limits and it was pretty late as we were getting settled into bed so it was really scary.