New Video – Ring Smart Alerts (Rich Notifications) – A Really Useful Feature
Ring have recently released a new feature called ‘smart alerts’ or ‘rich notifications’, which basically sends an image (snapshot capture) alongside any alerts it sends out. So if someone clicks…
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New Video – View All Ring Devices On 1 Monitor (Possible?)
Professional grade security systems will allow you to watch all real-time (live) views of the camera feeds on a single PC/TV monitor. This got me wondering whether it’s possible to…
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Can Ring Cameras & Doorbells Be On Different Networks?
Ring produce a wide range of cameras and doorbells which can protect all parts of your property – inside and out. This is great, other than the fact that your…
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Which Ring and Nest Devices Support 5 GHz WiFi?
When it was first released, 5 GHz WiFi was advertised as being faster and sometimes ‘more reliable’ than 2.4 GHz WiFi. Whilst this is broadly true, many Ring and Nest…
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Can You Change The Ring Doorbell Sound Outside?
When someone presses your Ring Doorbell, an external ‘ringing’ sound is played. One time – not long after installing my own Ring Doorbell Pro – someone pressed the doorbell (without…
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Using Ring Devices Without A Subscription: What Won’t Work
The basic Ring Protect plan costs just $30 per year (per device) and it appears to offer a bunch of nice features over and above not having a Ring subscription….
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New Video – Amazon Alexa – All Ring Doorbell Sounds
You can use your Echo (and Fire TV) devices as a doorbell for your Ring devices. There are currently 26 different doorbell sounds you can play via Alexa when someone…
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Viewing All Your Ring Cameras (And Doorbells) At Once
We’ve probably all seen movies where a secretive company has dozens of CCTV cameras along their perimeter, and the security control room has multiple TV monitors that display the live…
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Which Ring And Nest Cameras Are PoE (Power over Ethernet)?
Power over Ethernet involves using the multiple wire strands within an Ethernet cable to send both data and electrical power. This allows the end device to be fully powered by…
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New Video – Ring Doorbell & Camera Zoom: Is It Any Good?
Ring doorbells and cameras record in full HD (1080p), apart from the original Doorbell 1 (which is 720p). Whilst this captures a good level of detail, they don’t contain a…
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