We really like our Ring Pro doorbell. I've had my eye on the floodlight. There's a great deal today only on a 2 pack, so I jumped on it.

Anyone using this? How bright are they?

What type of box should these mount to? I have one floodlight already that one will replace, but the second will be over my garage - plenty of wiring access, I just need to make a hole in the siding/wall for a box.

Edit - sale over

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I've got one. I just wired it into the box the old light was on.
Works great, plenty bright. No complaints.

If they work as poorly as the doorbell, I'd skip it. You need to test your networking connectivity at the locations you're going to put them at, otherwise the upload delays offset any advantage.

The big problem is the connectivity, I've sat at the front door, rang the bell and it's a 10 to 30 second wait for the app to recognize the bell was rang on my phone.

On most occasions the video won't come up at all, or takes so long either I'm at the door or the person there is gone. I've seen uploads of videos taking minutes.

It's always blamed on WiFi connectivity, I've got 100mb service, no drop there, and I've even upgraded to an NetGear Orbi Mesh network, w

The Orbi satellite hubb is right next to the door, which is a glass door, and it backs up to the wall where the Ring unit is mounted Doing this improved the service from -78% to -56%. (the lower the number 0 being perfect the better) however we still have connectivity problems.

I don't see how it could get a better connection without putting an outdoor mesh satellite mounted next to the ring.

IMHO Ring unit has poor networking internals, the only way you get decent use is you MUST have a great network connection, and only if it can see that network. If you have block or poured concrete walls, might as well forget it because it becomes a service to review what's happened not see whats happening.

That has reduced the number of false rings, and improved the service somewhat, but it isn't going to get any faster without a wired connection or if I drill a hole and run a wire through the wall for an antenna. which isn't possible.

I've got one and love it. Very bright and fast response to view. I did have delays and dropouts until I moved my router to a better location and it's been rock solid ever since.

"Bright" is such a relative term. I note Ring does not mention in their specs how bright their emitters are, only that they're "3000° Kelvin," which is simply their colour temperature.

The bulbs I have in my RAB motion lights are rated at 1300 and 1500 lumens, which are still nearly 1000 lumens short of what a 150W halogen emitter will do, but were the brightest PAR38 wet-rate LED bulbs I could find.

Just installed one this weekend. So far so Good. Plenty bright for my uses

Is that an Echo Show?

Got one in front and one in back. Love it. First month I had them, got notified while at work at 0200 hours of motion in backyard. Guy jumped fence into my yard, light came on, he jumped over a privacy fence into the yard next to me (a vacant house). I was able to see him hunker down with the night vision like he was hiding. Called my local PD, turns out he was a burglar who ran from police. I guided cops in, suspect in custody without incident.

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Originally posted by Kenpoist:
Is that an Echo Show?

Yup. All my devices are Alexa compatible I clung my sprinklers, cameras, and vacuums

I have the Ring Spotlight camera model without the additional light fixture that runs off batteries.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Ri...SB1S7-BEN0/302560459


With two batteries it goes about 3 months before having to be recharged. Been happy with it and my Ring Pro doorbell.

Note - I was not real happy with the original Ring Doorbell because by the time it registered motion, fired up, connected and then showed the person had come and gone. On the Pro though, it is always recording on a short loop. When it senses it buffers the previous 10 seconds or so you can see what was going on in the time it took to connect and do it’s thing. 2 months short of a year and Ring was happy to upgrade me to the Pro for the price difference between the two models.

Also like the ability to do live view and check without anything having to trigger it first.


Some screen shots of Daytime, night without lights (IR), and night with Ring Cam light on. Note, I do have light fixtures on either side of the double garage door so the “without lights” shot does still have some light, not total darkness.

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Originally posted by HRK:

If they work as poorly as the doorbell, I'd skip it. You need to test your networking connectivity at the locations you're going to put them at, otherwise the upload delays offset any advantage.

The big problem is the connectivity, I've sat at the front door, rang the bell and it's a 10 to 30 second wait for the app to recognize the bell was rang on my phone.

On most occasions the video won't come up at all, or takes so long either I'm at the door or the person there is gone. I've seen uploads of videos taking minutes.

It's always blamed on WiFi connectivity, I've got 100mb service, no drop there

What HRK said.

I have the Ring Video Doorbell 2. Many "events" (either triggered by the motion detector or by somebody ringing the doorbell) result in forty seconds of black screen instead of a video image.

Ring's NO-support blames it on my router. I replaced the Apple router with one that allows assigning network priority to a device, no improvement. A Google search results in hundreds, maybe thousands, of similar complaints. Ring is a good concept, poorly executed. They need to make major improvements in their networking.

Personally, I'm about this >< close to giving up on wireless video surveillance entirely. Bought a pair of C³ (Cheap Chinese Crap) cameras a year ago or better. Don't particularly like them, but haven't yet found anything wireless that I feel is worth the extra outlay.

So I'm thinking: I really only need about four cameras:

• The back of the house
  
• The front of the house, incl. driveway
  
• The family room
  
• Wherever the safe ends up
  

Five if I want to cover the inside of the garage.

So I'm increasingly thinking I'll just go with wired IP cameras. Might already have the DVR, with my Synology NAS.

Less than 500' of UTP network cable, a PoE switch, 4-5 cameras. Assuming I can use the NAS' DVR: Probably cost less than the best wireless cams (currently NetGear Arlo Pro 2, TTBOMK) and be better cameras, with no recurring cloud storage fees and no more battery hassles.

I have a synology nas that I recently setup with an old Foscam camera I had and I haven't come up with any real negatives yet. I've been meaning to add a couple cameras to it and delve into it more but haven't gotten around to it yet. It does seem to be a viable option though.

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Originally posted by mark60:
I have a synology nas that I recently setup with an old Foscam camera I had and I haven't come up with any real negatives yet. I've been meaning to add a couple cameras to it and delve into it more but haven't gotten around to it yet. It does seem to be a viable option though.

That's good to know.

Perhaps I just need to qualify an acceptable camera for somewhere on or in the house, hook it up and see what happens.

Just be sure you have plenty of strong wi-fi signal at the selected install points, otherwise you can get signal and image delays, false alerts and such.

Turns out the Reolink C1 Pro I have in the family room is compatible with the Synology NAS' surveillance camera software. (It treats it as a C2.)

So I can play with that one.