School me on Doorbell / Ring Cameras

Can only speak for the Ring doorbell. It's 2 wires, we used the wires from the existing doorbell. There is minimal configuration before installation. Connecting to wifi, creating Ring account. It's nice to see when someone is at the door, you can also hear them and talk to them.

my problem has always been, it picks up motion like a big truck on the street. I believe it's around $5 a month for recording.

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but also possibly the side of the house at the garage and in the back.

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If you have floodlights in those locations, it's very easy to swap with a Ring camera motion floodlight.

If you don't have wires, the wireless camera is good as well. I have one overlooking my pool where there is no wiring. Batteries last a few months, and I simply recharge overnight and good to go the next morning.

Remember to set them to "disarmed" when you cut the grass if you don't want 47 motion detected notifications.

We have Blink. Won one as a Christmas game gift. Installed it on the front door and bought the $30 annual membership. Liked it so much we bought one for the back door and just use that with internal storage (sd card). When the annual membership runs out we will be reverting the front door one to internal storage as well.

Can't complain. They connect to the standard chime in our house. They work well.

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Remember to set them to "disarmed" when you cut the grass if you don't want 47 motion detected notifications.

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this--drives my poor dog crazy

Between two houses I have 8 Ring cameras and several Wyze products currently in use. Ring products are easy to install and setup through their apps but, like any WiFi device, reception is a huge part in how satisfied you'll be with the device. In my main house I have a very powerful, centrally located modem/router so signal strength is no a problem throughout the property, at the other one it's just the standard Xfinity modem/router on a cabinet so one or two cameras always have signal issues. With doorbell cameras, you need to make sure the wired transformer has about 20VA or better. I only have one battery-powered Ring spot camera, I run two battery packs in it so during the warm season I hardly have to charge them but in the winter the batteries do not last anywhere near as long obviously. I will eventually swap it out for a wired unit. The Wyze cameras are fine too, they are simpler to setup and really the only thing you are paying more for are the optional features the Ring app has and the depth of products available.

I had several Ring products but got tired of paying the annual fees. Switched to Eufy w no fee and have no complaints.

Those Eufy's have a super clear resolution.

I like the ring family of products but have not tried out the others. A few comments to some of the points others made about ring.

If you do have to go the battery powered route, I recommend 1 extra battery that you can keep charged. When the battery gets low, you can quickly swap it out and recharge the low battery until the next one gets low.

If you do not have a strong signal throughout the house, the do sell ring doorbells that can act as a signal booster. I have this for 2 floodlights.

As others said, if you already have floodlights & doorbells in place, it is a very simple switch. If not, you can easily go with the wireless versions and those are easily installed as well.

Regardless of which route you go; I have noticed that will all routinely offer package discounts and have sales. In other words, don't pay full price. You can monitor from now until you pull the trigger, but Thanksgiving week & prime day week (in July) typically have the best deals.

Very happy with Ring cameras. Have a doorbell camera that's hardwired and 2 exterior cameras that have their own solar charging panels. Had to add wifi extenders but they all work flawlessly

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Where is that stored?

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