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…when doorbell is rung/pressed it goes off on your phone, somewhere in your home like a ding dong ?
What happens if the Wi-Fi goes down does the bell still ding dong in the house independently from the Wi-Fi ?
It’s a deal breaker !
You need a ring Chime if you want it to ring from somewhere that’s not an Echo/phone, and I’m pretty sure that needs wifi too as the whole thing is based around it
Our ring doorbell is hard wired to a traditional chime. To ring in the house does not need WiFi. WiFi is only needed for it to chime on my phone.
Our ring doorbell is hard wired to a traditional chime.
On mine at least there's two screw terminals to wire it into a regular doorbell. (My 'regular doorbell' isn't compatible because it's older than I am, so I wired it to a standalone power supply instead.) I'd say that realistically you want to do one of these two things because the advertised battery life is... optimistic if you're going to be using video / motion sensing.
Mine's hooked into the Echo infrastructure throughout the house. It works well but, as you say, if the Wi-Fi is down then you're stuffed.
The ring chime produces its own 'wifi' network to allow them to communicate.
However if you lose your home wifi, non of the recording/live features work
the advertised battery life is… optimistic
That's a rather mild way of putting it.
battery life is… optimistic
If you are not going to hardwire, then I would recommend getting second battery for quick swap outs
Eufy. No need for cloud storage or buying a separate chime.
the advertised battery life is… optimistic
That’s a rather mild way of putting it.
Weird. I charge mine every four weeks or so. Didn’t think that was too bad with motion sensor turned on.
If you are not going to hardwire, then I would recommend getting second battery for quick swap outs
That is model-dependant. Mine doesn't have that option.
Weird. I charge mine every four weeks or so. Didn’t think that was too bad with motion sensor turned on.
I don't particularly want to be unscrewing my doorbell from the door every four weeks and being without it for several hours whilst it recharges. When I first installed it I was expecting to do it every six months and even that felt irritating.