All-new Ring Video Doorbell 3 – 1080p HD video, improved motion detection, and easy installation
[{'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2020', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'Cheaped out the first time and got the original. We had it for about a year and it worked well, but the quality was garbage. So I got this one (ring doorbell 3) and the quality is so much better. I would recommend not getting the original and buying this one.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2020', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'Don’t listen to the negative reviews. It was easy to connect to my SmartThings and setting up wifi is similar to google. When you connect to the network you have to disconnect your existing network and connect to the device with your phone or tablet. I was able to connect it through my existing hardwire doorbell and my existing doorbell ring worked as well. You just have to go through the ring app and turn that feature on. The video is clean, vivid and not choppy. I connected to my 5ghz network and the signal works just fine. I tested it multiple times with no issues. When someone rings the device my doorbell rings and my Amazon Alexa announces someone is at the front door. A banner popups up and on it and live view activates. The ring service is $30 a year. I also tried it through my fire tv and when asked show me the front door my TV screen went straight to live view. No app needed. Just remember to add the ring skill on your Alexa software and do a search for the device to add it. Once that’s done your set. I barely looked at the directions to set all this up.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2020', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "I moved my 1st generation Ring Doorbell to the back door and installed the Ring Doorbell 3 at the front door. The field of view, responsiveness, sound quality and quality of the picture are much, much better on the Ring Doorbell 3 than the first generation unit. It also limits the motion response to just the area I selected unlike the old unit that over responded and picked up the movement of cars and trucks more than 30 feet away even though I had adjusted it to be less responsive. I'm very satisfied with the new unit."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2020', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "Updated: Sept 11, 2020. Changing to 5-star rating for two reasons, the outstanding customer service, and receiving a replacement that is working 100% the way it should. There were many emails back and forth to try and get my ring 3 working. After trying all possible remedies customer service sent me a new ring 3. I installed it 2 days ago and it is up and running without any of the problems I had in the past. So if you do have a problem rest easy knowing the Ring backs up their product and will make it right.\n\nHere's the pros/cons for me. Great picture quality and night vision are the pros, motion detection is really the only con I have. Even though I have set up the detection for the 5-15 feet range and have blocked 3 of the 4 areas you are allowed to it is still picking up traffic going by on the street which is about 40 feet from the door. Short of putting up a wall on my sidewalk (which I am sure the neighbors would love) I do not see any way of fixing this. I notice that many other reviewers have the same problems with setting distance and motion detection. Not sure if Ring will/can do a software fix for this but they should. So I guess that annoying detection is better than none at all."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2020', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "I installed the device yesterday. It works GREAT and it is simple to set up.\nSoon we'll look into getting more devices for better home security."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2020', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-1 review-rating', 'review_body': 'Why do I have to pay a monthly bill so this can work not good I want to return this but I threw away the box'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on June 13, 2020', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-2 review-rating', 'review_body': 'Not impressed. Been messing with settings for 4 days and can’t stop it from notifying me every time a car goes by and missing half the people that walk up on my porch. Turned off zone that includes street but still get notifications. Bought to replace cheaper doorbell because it had same problem but no settings to change. Thought this would be better. But it is not.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2020', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-1 review-rating', 'review_body': 'I was expecting real time notifications and expected to be able to use Echo Show to see who is at the front door. That doesn\'t happen 90% of the time. Forget about notifications thru the ring app on my phone. Sometimes that happens in a minute or 2, sometimes not at all.\n\nYeah, I see what the answer will be if I call support..."WiFi connection". Well the router is 6 feet away, with only the wall that the ring is installed on between the 2. My Echo Tap can connect thru the house 50 feet into the back yard but this thing can\'t from 6 feet away thru a 3" wall.\n\nI mistakenly thought this would give me some level of security.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2020', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "My neighbor recently stopped by with some pictures of a sketchy character on his porch. I had some cameras set up but my coverage was a little lacking so I went ahead and bought this. It arrived quickly and I took to installing and setting it up right away. First issue- I couldn't get an account set up. I kept on getting error after error while trying to set it up on my iphone. By chance I turned off my VPN and it magically allowed my account to be created. The rest of the setup process was a bit of a grind as random errors and freezes plagued the process. I think the VPN was turning itself on and that was creating the problems.\nNow on to the install. My existing doorbell is wired into the door moulding and with a storm door also attached there was little room for the Ring Doorbell to attach. I solved that problem by cutting a block of wood to fit next to the moulding so that the Ring would have something to attach to (not so easy since I have fiber cement siding). Once that was done install was easy.\nNow that it's installed I have the same problem with the VPN. I have to turn it off to connect to the doorbell, but it's a minor inconvenience until I find a workaround.\nThe picture quality is great, the motion detection (at least for me anyways) is a work in progress (seems to pick up movement of flowers and flags). I originally hooked it up to my existing chime but once I found out that you can use your Alexa devices to ring throughout the house I set it up that way. You have many ring tones to choose from (including some seasonal). Pretty cool.\nOverall my particular setup was a little involved but now that it's running I would certainly recommend."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2020', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-1 review-rating', 'review_body': 'I’m a third generation carpenters daughter. I also work in the tech field. I know tools. I know instillation. I know electronics. I’ve assembled and installed literally everything from furniture to appliances in our entire house. Installing this product made me cry 3 times, have an anxiety attack, and have to take medications to calm down. I’ll admit I was having a bad day already when I tried to put this thing together. But the instructions are ABSOLUTELY ABYSMAL! I had to watch 3 Yoitube videos just before I could figure out how you’re supposed to attach the stupid slanting brackets. The device told me it was “entering setup mode” after I put in the battery, and then sat there blinking for 35 minutes. Finally I got mad, tried to figure out what what happening, and discovered that I was supposed to be setting it up on the app while it was doing this. There was zero mention in the instructions of this. I thought “setup mode” meant it was looking for WiFi, or triangulating it’s location or something like that. How am I supposed to known that when it says it’s entering setup mode I’M supposed to do the setup. There are zero instructions on what the different screws and things are for. I can’t even finish explaining all the nightmares involved in setting this nightmare up. Setup sucks, the product sucks, the quality sucks. I hated it out of sheer spite for what it put me through for several hours during setup, but now I absolutely loathe it for how crummy and confusing it is. If it ever breaks I’m not returning it, I’m just going to throw it in a bonfire and dance around it. Horrendous product'}]