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Post by Auf Kiltre on Jun 9, 2020 7:32:01 GMT -5
I peeked into the neighborhood feature and while I can see its uses found it just another deranged interaction platform like Nextdoor Neighbor or a community Facebook group.
Yeah, my "surveillance" is limited to using technology to see what's happening on my front porch.
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Post by slacker 🐨 on Jun 9, 2020 8:41:55 GMT -5
I've had one for a couple years. I like it. The house I'm in now (bought last summer) was older and had a doorbell system that was broken. The previous owners had put in a wireless system. We just switched it to a Ring and got some of those Ring chimes to place in a few strategic locations. That way we always hear the doorbell no matter where we are.
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Post by Mfitz804 on Jun 9, 2020 10:27:45 GMT -5
I turned off the neighborhood alerts on mine. About 2 or 3 times a day, if somebody lights a firecracker, or a car backfires, you get the neighborhood busybody "Heard gunshots on vivion and walnut! anybody else hear gunshots?" and then all the other nervous busybodies chiming in "Oh no! Are they rioting here?? Did you call the police??" In my neighborhood, its almost always "my car was broken into and they stole my wallet, cell phone, laptop, etc.". Then you watch the video and realize it wasn't so much "breaking" in as it was a thief opening their unlocked car full of valuables at 1AM. So irritating. The rest of it is, as Mike the marksman indicates, speculation as to what loud noises are, or why there was a helicopter. There are also a few "strange man rings my doorbell, I don't answer, and then he just leaves". Nothing strange about the person, of course, and what's he supposed to do when you don't answer, set up a tent? I leave mine on and fire off occasional snarky comments at people being stupid lol.
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Post by Mike the marksman on Jun 9, 2020 10:40:18 GMT -5
I live in a nice, quiet suburb where nothing of note ever happens, but if you read the Ring neighborhood alerts you'd think I live in a crime-infested third world hellhole, lol
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Post by Mfitz804 on Jun 9, 2020 10:45:39 GMT -5
I live in a nice, quiet suburb where nothing of note ever happens, but if you read the Ring neighborhood alerts you'd think I live in a crime-infested third world hellhole. The majority of my "neighborhood alerts" i completely ignore, because they are in a completely different State. living at the tip of Staten Island, Perth Amboy, New Jersey is right across the water and according to Ring is part of my neighborhood. I have yet to capture anything interesting on my Ring cam, I was hoping for something weird, or random animals, or something. But no. I get us coming and going, deliveries, and the aforementioned accidental recordings. The guys trying to open unlocked cars, yes, that happens in my neighborhood, but I have never seen it on my block, and my cars are always locked and free valuables. To me, if you live in New York, and you leave your wallet, cell phone and laptop in your unlocked car overnight, you're asking for it. What you "should" be able to do doesn't always coincide with what you should actually do.
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Post by Mfitz804 on Jun 9, 2020 10:56:00 GMT -5
I just checked my last three neighborhood alerts.
1. "Guy trying to break into my car"; video shows a guy stopping his car in the middle of the street, walking up to a house, disappearing from view, and then walking back. At no point do you see him
2. The same person reporting the same guy "casing the area". What he is doing is again indistinguishable; a guy looking for his puppy would have the exact same appearance.
3. "Fireworks or gunfire"? The answer is quickly given, it was fireworks. Happens every single time, immediate answer is fireworks. I have lived here 43 years and have never heard gunshots. But if you believe the Ring Neighborhood people, we live in a war zone. Not to say nobody has ever been shot, there was a fatal shooting not long ago maybe 15 blocks away. Nobody reported it on Ring.
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Post by Tom B. on Jun 9, 2020 13:36:05 GMT -5
We live in a rural area and recently bought one. I'm not much for a lot of the technology that's available but we like the Ring. It's good to know, both local and remote, when someone comes and goes or makes a delivery -- our house was broken into a few months ago. We do get triggers in the evenings due to critters, raccoon/possum/skunk/dog/cat... and especially moths. I've got to figure out how to keep the Ring from attracting those. We haven't made any adjustments to the sensitivity or motion detection areas, it seems to work pretty well as is. Bandwidth and speed were a problem with our old DSL, it worked but just barely. We recently got fiber and the performance is much better -- very quick access, little to no dropouts and much better audio. We don't use the neighborhood feature.
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Post by Leftee on Jun 9, 2020 15:35:06 GMT -5
Question...
Can you still use a Ring without cloud services?
Just LAN/WiFi
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Post by Auf Kiltre on Jun 9, 2020 16:16:39 GMT -5
Good question. As far as I know there is a 24 hr loop. If you want more, cloud service required. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
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Post by De ville on Jun 9, 2020 19:43:22 GMT -5
Question... Can you still use a Ring without cloud services? Just LAN/WiFi
You can use all ring hardware without a service plan, but after the 30 day trial, the cloud will no longer store your saved video, and saved video will be lost. I have the security system with monitoring, and cloud storage for like 14 something a month, and no contracts. Hard to bean that. Also monitoring is not required if you want to rely on phone alerts, and call 911 yourself, but if you don't have your phone 24/7 then the monitoring makes the most sense.
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Post by Auf Kiltre on Jun 9, 2020 19:49:49 GMT -5
But will I still have access to video from within a 24 hr period?
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Post by De ville on Jun 9, 2020 19:55:13 GMT -5
But will I still have access to video from within a 24 hr period? I believe after the trial is over, you can only view alerts live in the moment. It won't save them for viewing later.
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Post by De ville on Jun 9, 2020 19:56:10 GMT -5
But will I still have access to video from within a 24 hr period? I believe after the trial is over, you can only view alerts live in the moment. It won't save them for viewing later.
I think there might be a way for local storage. I haven't looked into it.
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Post by tahitijack on May 20, 2022 10:27:38 GMT -5
Ring is amazing. While sleeping in Hawaii I got an alert that someone was at our front door. I opened the app and there was our gardener working in the flower beds. Three hour time difference...8 am to 5 am. Go back to sleep.
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Post by walshb 🦒 on May 20, 2022 11:05:35 GMT -5
We got a Ring doorbell for Christmas, and we like it. We're not paying for any services with it though, I don't feel like we need to save the videos. Around Mother's Day, I bought one of the Ring alarm systems that were on sale for 20% off. The one I bought has 4 door sensors, a range extender, and a motion detector. I'm impressed with how versatile the system is, even though the manual doesn't tell you about many of the features that can be turned on or off. I've had to search online for much of that info. For example, there's a "geofence" feature that, once activated, reminds you to turn the alarm system on as you're driving away from your house. It also reminds you to turn it off as you're driving up to the house. I didn't see this feature mentioned in the manual.
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Post by K4 on May 20, 2022 13:10:47 GMT -5
To me, if you live in New York, and you leave your wallet, cell phone and laptop in your unlocked car overnight, you're asking for it. I don't leave valuables in my car and it is garaged.
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Post by Mfitz804 on May 20, 2022 19:09:50 GMT -5
To me, if you live in New York, and you leave your wallet, cell phone and laptop in your unlocked car overnight, you're asking for it. I don't leave valuables in my car and it is garaged. Nor do you live in New York.
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Post by K4 on May 20, 2022 19:32:32 GMT -5
Nor do you live in New York. If I lived in NYC and had a garage I still wouldn't leave valuables in it. Although as a kid on a farm in northern Wi we always left our car keys in the ign.
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Post by Mfitz804 on May 20, 2022 22:41:44 GMT -5
^ That was my whole point, these people complain about their valuables being stolen from an unlocked car. Parked on the street. In New York. If that happened to me I wouldn’t tell anyone because I would be embarrassed by my own stupidity.
But it wouldn’t happen to me, unless you consider a Leatherman, a first aid kit, or a handheld tire inflator “valuables”, but even then, it’s never unlocked.
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