What other products does this company offer? Are those products good quality and reliable? What kind of features are you getting with these products here? Do these products integrate with other smart home systems?
And go on and smash that notification bell to get updates whenever we put out a new video. Ring has a feature called Snapshot Capture, which takes a photo every few minutes so you can scrub through it. This gives you the impression that it’s been recording 24/7. If something happened in the middle of the night or when no activity was triggered, you can go back to the snapshots and get at least a photo of what was happening on that camera. Another feature that Ring built into the app is Neighbors, which allows you to connect with other Ring customers to share suspicious activity that’s been going on around your neighborhood. It essentially is like a digital neighborhood watch. Whether you have cameras or a security system, it can all be controlled within one app. If you have more products, like additional cameras or the security system, you can get the Protect Plus plan, which is $10 a month or $100 a year. It will cover all of your cameras, give you cloud storage recording, and 24-hour monitoring if you have their security system. And if you want 24/7 professional monitoring and 24/7 backup internet, the Protect Pro plan can make that happen. Ring’s solution was to implement Pre-Roll in its Video Doorbell 3, which allows it to record in low-quality, black and white four seconds of footage before the actual 1080p footage starts recording, which sounds promising if you want to get somebody walking up to the door. The problem that I found with this doorbell is that the quality is so low, even walking up to the door. I found that the Pre-Roll feature wasn’t really very useful in my situation. I like the location of this camera—in the center of my door—more than the Ring video doorbell’s location, which is lower and off to the side. This one captured faces better because it was right in the line of sight with people who were standing at the door. Switch over to the battery-powered Stick-Up Cam, and I have to say that I was very disappointed with this camera. It’s both an indoor and outdoor camera. The quality I was getting out of this product was poor. Not only was the video blurry and just didn’t seem like good 1080p quality, but the audio was awful too. A lot of times it wasn’t picking up the audio, or it was constantly cutting in and out during my tests. As I mentioned earlier, Ring has one of my favorite apps out there, it’s just so clean and well-designed, it’s easy to navigate, they have a lot of features built into it.
