Can Ring’s Smart Cameras Trigger Ring Alarm?
Ring’s devices can be linked together to provide closer integration, and it’d be nice if motion detected on a Ring camera (especially an outdoor one) could trigger the Ring alarm…
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Amazon Echo: Transferring Music To Another Echo
It’s quite common to be listening to music on your Echo in one room, but you need to move to another room – and so you want to continue playing…
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New Video – Ring Doorbell Chime & Chime Pro: All Chime Sounds
The Ring Doorbell can work with a separate Chime device which plugs into your wall socket and works over WiFi, playing a doorbell sound whenever someone presses your Ring Doorbell….
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My Smart Home Thoughts: What I Love (And Hate!) About Them
I purchased my first Echo device back in 2016, and I’ve always found it quite useful, although my wife wasn’t convinced at first. But over time, as we’ve discovered more…
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Can Google Home Read Emails And Text Messages?
Google’s smart voice assistant – the ‘Home’ range – is great. It can play music, search (and read back) the internet, read your calendar entries, and a whole lot more….
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Do You Need The Ring Chime For Your Ring Doorbell?
The Ring Chime is a useful device in many cases – it plays a chime or doorbell (‘ding-dong’) sound to notify you when your Ring Doorbell has been pressed. This…
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Ring Video Range: How Far Can It See? Can You Zoom In/Out?
Ring’s cameras and doorbells tend to film in full HD (1920x1080p) with a few exceptions. Whilst this is good, Ring cameras also use a wide angle lens that pick up…
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New Video – Grr! Alexa/Echo Gives Wrong Weather: How To Fix This!
I love most of the features that Echo provides… apart from the weather forecasting, that is. That’s because I moved house a few years ago, but it still gives me…
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Stolen Ring Doorbell: What Happens? Can It Still Be Used?
You wake up in the middle of the night to a sound outside your front door. You check your phone and see that you have a Ring motion alert. You…
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Do Smart Plugs Work Away From Home?
When talking about the benefits of smart plugs, I usually give the example of being able to turn your slow cooker on from work, so that you come home to…
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