Ring - Floodlight Cam - White

I purchased one of these as we already have a pro doorbell by ring that we like. Unfortunately ring opt'd to drop the 5ghz support for this camera which really impacts it's performance. Ring states this was done as 2.4ghz can reach further thru walls and a better chance to get to this unit outside. Unfortunately this also means major interference with the already overloaded 2.4ghz network. Most of us 'true' wifi/network geeks have fully saturated wifi in our homes that can easily penetrate to the outside. Instead Ring runs you thru a gamut of senseless troubleshooting when you get the inevitable 'poor quality image'. The image produced by this camera is nowhere near 1080p. There is a setting in the camera (that only RING can change) which bounces the camera between 1080, 720 and lower resolution based on the WiFi signal strength. The issue here is the camera incorrectly does this and even having RING force the camera to 1080p doesn't improve the situation. I have been in the IT field for almost 20 years. I am constantly being pushed for the latest fastest wifi for installations. For my house I setup multiple Unifi Ubiquity Access Points and some other backend hardware. RING immediately tried to blame my equipment as they 'assumed' it was a mesh network. Unfortunately for them all of my Access Points are ether net back hauled (hardwired). With Ubiquity's controller I can see the RING devices and their connection speeds. At the initial install I had a Ubiquity AC-Lite unit sitting 8' away with just the exterior wall between it and the floodlight. I had my 5ghz radio on a separate SSID than the 2.4ghz and even renamed the 2.4ghz at that access point to a separate SSID so I knew that the floodlight would not try to connect to another access point in my system. With that setup the floodlight was connecting at over 144Mbps to the access point with a very good RSSI (almost 99% signal quality). Speed tests with my I pad pro being held right at the floodlight, connected to that same 2.4ghz SSID maxed out my 60Mbps down x 6Mbps upload. The diagnostics in the Floodlight always showed good connection and low RSSI. Ring acknowledged the connection appears to be good and it should be showing better video than this pixilated /blocky appearance. They tried forcing to 1080p and having me try a restart to no avail. I forgot to mention that the current RING app from the apple store also has broken live view on new Apple I pad pro. They are aware and have said for weeks they are fixing. Disappointment, still like the idea if they can fix this.

They say object and facial recognition, it does not, after call to ring there is no facial recognition. 1080p is bogus, maybe a jerky 480, not smooth (i have a good wireless readin over 100mgps at the camera. \You won't talk to anyone as speaker volume is almost non-existant. everything else seems to work ok, I will probably return this unless they come out with better software to correct these problems, I believe this is another product rushed to market and put out before it was ready, software not up to date for win10 and not everything works. the install was ez which is one of the reasons i purchased.

I have the Ring Doorbell Pro and it works flawlessly. It is also on my 5Ghz wifi. The Flood light works well but there is are a few ongoing issues. 1.) The video, even with perfect network connection is choppy 2.) It can only be on 2.4Ghz wifi 3.) I have had to reset it about 4 times because it has changed to an "offline" state The devices does work well, but it isnt always as responsive as it needs to be, video tends to be grainy and pixilated. Sometimes it will be flawless and others time i have to struggle to get connected to it. Once they work the bugs out and it can be on the 5Ghz wifi, i think the issues will be resolved. Until then, save your money or wait for it to go on sale.

The flood light was even easier to set up then the doorbell I like the two way speaker phone feature Siren is not as loud as I thought it would be but certainly no thief will want to hang out and listen to it

Nice to get the alerts even though they are all from the cat. You can dial on your Motion detector zones very easily and night vision is decent.

You can monitor from anywhere whether you're home or away The person entering your property doesn't know if anyone is home

Love the Ring products floodLights with cámara great idea

It's very easy to install that much I can say about the product that is good. The rest goes downhill from there. The video quality is not that great, can't really make out the faces even at closer distances. The alerts don't always come or go to your phone. It records when it wants, and as for recording they want you to pay to keep the recording which kind of defeats the purpose of getting this. I didn't want to pay for ADT or any other security service, but with this it's the same if I have to pay for a service.