Ring Battery Doorbell Plus | Head-to-Toe HD+ Video, motion detection & alerts, and Two-Way Talk (2023 release)

The ring offers peace of mind when it comes to seeing who’s at your front door. Even if you’re away from home you can still see any activity. If there is a lot of packages that get dropped off at home a ring will help against theft. Video quality is great!

I got this doorbell Plus model used at a pretty good price. I have been using one of the older early generation models for the longest time and this is indeed a noticeable upgrade, it performs faster, smoother and the camera’s image quality is definitely more crisp and detailed. Also a lot wider view angle than what I had. Really happy with it.Having said that, there is no way I’m gonna pay more than $100 for something like this. These things are overpriced at the regular price.

We live in a nice neighborhood but things happen. We ordered and got one a month ago. Must admit its nice. There is even a neighborhood watch. U can notify other Ring Customers and let them know u found a lost cat on your door or someone got caught stealing cans in front yard.

I wanted one of these for a while and finally got it on an Amazon Prime day. I’m not a handy person but my brother in law and I were able to install this in about 30 minutes. Most people could probably do it in half that!A couple of things to keep in mind:Once you get it, you’ll have to get a monthly subscription for maximum usability. Without it, you can’t go back and look at previous activity, you can only see what’s going on in the present time.I find that sometimes by the time it lets me know someone is at the door, like a delivery person, they’re already halfway down the driveway or more. Frustrating if I wanted to speak to them.Other than that this is a very good product.

Installation was easy and WI-FI setup was easy. Ring app installation and connection to ring app was easy and still works. Alexa setup was a little complicated using Echo Show 8, and have lost connection from doorbell to Echo Show after one week. Have not debugged it yet.

Update: 8-19-24. Ring saw my earlier post & called me offering any assistance to make my purchase better. They were fantastic. They helped me with some settings & even answered questions i had that wasn’t part of post. I now have a fantastic signal & everything is being recognized. They changed my settings on my chime pro & the signal has greatly improved. Upgrading my router was not a waste considering the excellent signal im getting and the fact im trying to make my home a “smart home”. Ring tech customer service really pulled through & was awesome. They are even going to call me back today to make sure issues were resolved. Excellent customer service.Original post: router was an older model & ring wouldn’t give me a good signal & work properly. So I bought the Chime Pro with wifi extender which did not help at all. But it is a nice doorbell. So then I had to buy a new router (which wasn’t cheap) and signal got better. It seems as though there is a lag when it & if it picks up motion or person & if they are moving fast, it may not register at all. I’m hoping it is just me trying to learn all the settings. I do know that I’ve put out alot of money to get this ring battery doorbell plus to work. When it does work, it’s pretty good but I’m still reviewing its performance. It’s only been 2 1/2 weeks so I may update this later. So far I’m not sure the product was worth all the money I’ve put out. That being said, my new router was only needed to get the doorbell to work. The Ring, Chime & router was expensive just to have a security doorbell that’s not always picking up person/motion. I’ll keep tweaking it. Not ready to totally count it out yet.

I originally Received a defective unit that would not recognize hard wiring. I bought it to replace a basic model which was already installed by hard wiring to be able to have the option of night recording. It should have been an easy swap but after many attempts to get the new unit to work, I determined it was defective and returned it for a replacement. I received the replacement unit within 2 days and had it installed in fifteen minutes. Great unit. I am a little disappointed I initially received a defective unit new in the box from Ring, but overall, once I received a working unit, everything is good.

So easy to install. Love having the additional security. Great photo quality day and night. You adjust the area that it picks up precisely. Shows my whole front door to across the street. Alerts you when you have a package. The battery lasts a lot longer than expected. I use it on motion detection only and the battery lasts for months. I thought I would have to buy a backup battery but I haven’t so far.

The ring was so easy to assemble. The image is so clear when you look on your phone. The battery life is truly 3 months. Unbelievable! Charging is fast and easy as well.

I had to buy the plug in chimes but works great. Night vision and motion detection good.

I had the original Ring doorbell and the clarity of the Ring Doorbell Plus is remarkably better both daytime and night. Easy install and being able to remove the battery to charge it is much easier than earlier models

I am thoroughly impressed with the Ring Doorbell! Installation was a breeze, thanks to the straightforward instructions and included tools. The video quality is excellent, providing clear and sharp footage day or night. I love how I can see and speak to visitors from anywhere using the Ring app on my phone, which adds a significant layer of security and convenience. The motion detection alerts are timely and customizable, ensuring I never miss a visitor or package delivery. Overall, the Ring Doorbell has exceeded my expectations and provided peace of mind. Highly recommend!

Picture is clear and battery great. No issues with connectivity and it’s picking up motion, person, and bell perfectly. Extremely easy to set up in the App and navigate settings etc. For mounting, As a renter, I purchased the door mount and it looks and works great! Super secure! I’ve been using the Ring doorbell for a month now and although I selected outside the recommended settings for recording length (1 minute vs. 30 seconds), i still have 73% battery life. Only 27% used in 30 days. At this rate, i expect my battery will last another 3 months before i need to charge. However, when i do, I also went ahead and bought an extra battery pack as not to lose any monitoring time. Also bought a yard sign Very pleased with all my Ring purchases thus far and would highly recommend! Overall great value!

Great view of the house and I love knowing when anyone is at my door. I didn’t have a doorbell before and now I feel so much better. Got it on a sale too. Great value. Gives me peace of mind. Clear picture. Shows lots of detail.

I absolutely love this it’s way worth the money! It’s easy to connect to WiFi and it stays connected. The picture quality is very clear and you can see for a long ways and zoom in and out to get a closer look. It’s easy to install. The performance of this doorbell is outstanding. I would recommend to anyone!

I finally decided to try the ever-popular Ring doorbell. I can only assume that the hype is from being an early entry into this space because after using a myriad of home automation products, I have not been impressed by this Ring doorbell in the slightest.———————–1. Terrible documentationThe box contains a tiny leaflet with no information about installing the thing, just info on expediting your personal information into their system. The only hardware reference is a picture of the hardware included, with no part counts to verify that you got what you were supposed to or descriptions to explain what the fasteners in each of the four paper envelopes should be used for. Zero info for actually using the mounting hardware. There is additional info in the setup process in the mobile app; not good info and super annoying to pick details out but technically there. This is apparently not a product for grown-ups who learned to read actual words.2. Bad hardware.The package only contains two machine screws to connect to doorbell to the mounting plate. It’s bad enough that the unit only has four holes for attaching to the mounting plate, leaving a gap at the top since no fasteners are used to hold the top half of the unit. It’s far worse when one of the two middle holes gets stripped, leaving a razor-thin margin between mostly attached and dangling even if there was a third screw to add to the fun.By the way, when I say “envelope, I mean there are four tiny envelopes labeled A through D for the hardware. Not sealed envelopes, just folded over and tucked, so maybe there was supposed to be more in here but they fell out while being packed, since some fasteners fell out when I removed the envelopes from the box but before I untucked any flaps. No indication on the envelopes as to what each should be used for, just a letter, so you’ll just have to figure it out based upon clues from whatever sources that you can find and any prior experience that you have with similar parts.The screws are metal, the mounting plate is plastic, and the threads are tiny. Mounting the doorbell to the mounting plate securely is a very delicate balancing between having a secure hold and stripping the threads, even when fingertipping the little Torx driver that they include. I barely got resistance on one before it began spinning freely, leading to the aforementioned stripping; one of only four mounting holes now useless. By very, very slowly turning the screws in two of the remaining holes, I was able to get them to hold without stripping. They seem tight enough but I don’t dare snug them down any more.The mounting plate is angled to left or right depending on how it gets placed, but all documentation and video I found online, given complete lack of included docs, are either for flat plates or an add-on plate that angles vertically rather than horizontally. Fortunately not difficult to figure out but I spent far more time than necessary trying to figure out if it was supposed to be that way or if they screwed up what went into the box. I’m still not sure since the hardware picture only covers the fasteners but the plate works so letting it be.The heads on the screws for the concrete anchors are about the same size as the mounting plate slot, so screws slide right through the slots when tightened, leaving the plate behind. No washers provided so it’s just the screw head to hold. I drilled holes in the mount next to the slots so that the tiny heads on the screws would have something to hold after every screw popped right through the slot while hand-tightening. Note that the drywall anchor screw heads are larger so all of the people mounting doorbells to drywall for some reason should get a decent hold at least.3. Insecure.Physically, this thing is trivial to pull from the wall and take, although I don’t expect most people would since the devices do get registered. But if someone decided that it would be funny to rip the device off of the wall and throw it into the street, that would kill 3-4 seconds of their day and $150 of your wallet. The battery takes about two seconds to remove; there is a small screw hole to secure it, although no screw included unless you’re expected to use one of the battery and only one to hold the unit to the mounting plate. So by default, they make for a very easy way for the unscrupulous to get extra batteries for their own doorbell.As far as software, it really goes out of it’s way to farm out your personal information. Before you can even get to useful technical info, they’re prompting for personal details to shove into their servers and inevitably leak out to the world, at least whatever info they aren’t simply selling. And you have to expose some personal info just to get basic functionality since using the doorbell attached to your house and viewing the video through that camera on your house requires going through Ring via the Internet unless you pony up a lot more money.There is no local storage. To get a simulation of local storage, you have to buy a completely different piece of hardware AND subscribe to an additional service. Keeping with the theme of the Ring app being more of a marketing tool than a tool to help manage your home.They push a feature called Neighbors that tries to get you to expose more info to the people with the easiest access to your home under the guise of improving security. Admittedly, Ring is probably more concerned with targeting people in secured enclaves who don’t actually need any sort of extra security but want something to deal with people at the door. But it does get marketed to everyone so something to be very aware of for the rest of the human race.If you think that calling the app a marketing tool is an exaggeration, the main app page has an ad for another Ring product that takes up more space than the preview of the last pic taken by the camera and the managing icons above that preview. Above that, the top bar of the screen exists just to push the Neighbors function.———————–Not to say that it’s all bad. The camera view doesn’t reach the ground in front of the doorbell so not great for spotting packages stuck in front of the door, but image quality is solid otherwise. I’d say that the image quality is comparable to my ~$25 Wyze cameras. The rechargeable batteries are handy to manage with built-in micro-USB ports and quick-release buttons for quick swaps.If the unit was available standalone and had an alternative to using it other than by feeding yet another avenue for identity theft then I could see them being a very handy part of a home automation setup. But it isn’t standalone and does require farming out your info just to get very basic functionality.In conclusion, I’d only recommend the Ring doorbell to someone whom I wanted to severely annoy and potentially rob, unless they were sufficiently handy and tech saavy to secure it despite the best efforts of Ring, in which case I’d just tell them to spend less money on something better. It’s a shame because the basic doorbell/camera unit seems pretty good but everything around it is trash.

Ring’s Battery Doorbell Plus stands at the threshold of home security and convenience, like a digital doorman who’s always on duty. This isn’t just a doorbell; it’s a vigilant eye, a friendly greeter, and a guard against porch pirates, all wrapped up in a sleek, wireless package. With its seamless performance and ease of use, it’s no wonder this gadget is ringing in a full five-star review.The first thing to note is its wireless nature. Free from the shackles of wires, this doorbell is as versatile as a Swiss Army knife. You can place it anywhere your WiFi signal reaches, a freedom that wired doorbells can only dream of. It’s like a nomad of home security, roaming freely in the realm of your front porch.Then comes the video quality. The Battery Doorbell Plus offers a crystal-clear view of your doorstep, turning every visitor, welcome or otherwise, into a star of your personal doorstep cinema. The video is so sharp, you could probably count the whiskers on your mailman’s chin.But it’s not just about seeing; it’s about interacting. The two-way talk feature turns your doorbell into a communication hub, letting you chat with visitors from anywhere in the world. It’s like having a teleportation device, minus the sci-fi complications.Battery life is another triumph. This doorbell sips power like a fine wine, ensuring you’re not constantly worried about recharging. It’s the endurance athlete of the doorbell world, ready and alert for the long haul.And let’s not forget the ease of installation. Setting up the Ring Battery Doorbell Plus is so straightforward, it’s almost anticlimactic. No wrestling with wires or drilling into the abyss of your home’s façade. It’s a DIY dream, turning the daunting into the doable.TL;DR: Ring’s Battery Doorbell Plus is a standout in the world of smart doorbells, offering wireless convenience, superb video quality, easy interaction, and long battery life. It’s a five-star addition to any home, enhancing security and convenience with modern flair.

I have good number of cameras, doorbells, and alexa devices all configured and paired together. I bought this doorbell to upgrade my front door. Wow is it nice!! I really can see the difference in verticle resolution.These have a lot of great options and features that really give you good control over your devices with a few major cons that really are hard to overlook and should cost a few stars.Pros. Great alerts, great video quality for just 1080p, range, and night vision. I can have it setup so if my front door gets motion alert, all the flood lights and cameras that can see that area light up and record. You can share with family members and determine what cameras they can see and which they cannot. I.E. we have a bedroom cam for our rottweiler puppy that has a large crate we can see right into during these early training months. I’d rather not having my teenage kids seeing into my bedroom but them getting motion alerts for the doors is awesome.Cons. Local storage is blocked behind a paywall. I literally bought a 512gb microsd card and found out when I couldn’t find where to enable that you have to not just pay more than what I was before with one camera, but you have to move up to their most expensive 20 dollar a month plan!!! What… The…heck Ring!??! I’m reading also that even after you do this, you can’t use both cloud AND local storage.. This is double dumb and downright either HORRENDOUS design by the developers or just intentional extortion via nickel and diming of their already paying customers.I’m a 25+ year IT professional. In EVERY camera system or data suite you care about, local and cloud storage together IS the bee’s knees. It should be available on cloud no matter what in case of fire/ring alarm theft and local storage used for faster replaying of recent events up to the amount of data your SD card can hold.Rather than giving in and paying, I returned the SD card and said screw it. I previously was paying about 3.99 a month for my single ring camera. I got tired of maintaining my local IP camera setup and needing a vm (virtual machine) running to record and eating up storage on my NAS to save it all. I was stoked when I saw the local storage. I dropped over 500 bucks on doorbell cams for back and side doors, flood light cams, and interior cameras to ensure our pets left home are fine and being checked on when we go on longer trips. I was OK moving up to 10 dollars a month for all that I get. Adding another 10 on top for something that costs RING NOTHING for me to use. is unacceptable. This is just a money-grabbing paywall and it needs to stop.Lastly, the biggest operational con besides this is the poor integration with Alexa for scheduling camera functions. I.E. I do like getting driveway alerts via the alexa when motion is detected because its a blind spot inside my house. One window on the back side of the house can see the driveway due to garage location. I set a schedule or snooze it to not give motion alerts if I’m having people over and it completely ignores this schedule and gives endless motion alerts via the alexa devices. Stupid annoying and it seems people have been complaining about this on the forum since 2018.