These things just work!!
Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2023 | Rating: 5/5 | Best Sellers in Amazon Devices & Accessories
i have good number of cameras  doorbells and alexa devices all configured and paired together  i bought this doorbell to upgrade my back door  its definitely came a long way since the first gen  not to keen on the built in battery but well see how that worksthese have a lot of great options and features that really give you good control over your devices with a few major cons that really are hard to overlook and should cost a few starspros  great alerts  great video quality for just 1080p  range and night vision  i can have it setup so if my front door gets motion alert all the flood lights and cameras that can see that area light up and record  you can share with family members and determine what cameras they can see and which they cannot  ie we have a bedroom cam for our rottweiler puppy that has a large crate we can see right into during these early training months  id rather not having my teenage kids seeing into my bedroom but them getting motion alerts for the doors is awesomecons  local storage is blocked behind a paywall  i literally bought a 512gb microsd card and found out when i couldnt find where to enable that you have to not just pay more than what i was before with one camera  but you have to move up to their most expensive 20 dollar a month plan  what theheck ring  im reading also that even after you do this  you cant use both cloud and local storage  this is double dumb and downright either horrendous design by the developers or just intentional extortion via nickel and diming of their already paying customersim a 25 year it professional  in every camera system or data suite you care about  local and cloud storage together is the bees knees  it should be available on cloud no matter what in case of firering alarm theft and local storage used for faster replaying of recent events up to the amount of data your sd card can holdrather than giving in and paying  i returned the sd card and said screw it  i previously was paying about 399 a month for my single ring camera  i got tired of maintaining my local ip camera setup and needing a vm virtual machine running to record and eating up storage on my nas to save it all  i was stoked when i saw the local storage  i dropped over 500 bucks on doorbell cams for back and side doors  flood light cams  and interior cameras to ensure our pets left home are fine and being checked on when we go on longer trips  i was ok moving up to 10 dollars a month for all that i get  adding another 10 on top for something that costs ring nothing for me to use is unacceptable  this is just a moneygrabbing paywall and it needs to stoplastly  the biggest operational con besides this is the poor integration with alexa for scheduling camera functions  ie  i do like getting driveway alerts via the alexa when motion is detected because its a blind spot inside my house  one window on the back side of the house can see the driveway due to garage location  i set a schedule or snooze it to not give motion alerts if im having people over and it completely ignores this schedule and gives endless motion alerts via the alexa devices  stupid annoying and it seems people have been complaining about this on the forum since 2018