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Review of the “Ring” doorbell
- Joeri 11y agoThat reads like an advertisement, but I have one myself and it works pretty well. Downsides: - Hooking it up to the existing wiring wasn't possible in our case, because of electrical incompatibility. Definitely research this ahead of time. Charging is every few months it seems if you turn on motion detection. - It makes just one sound, and it's rather annoying. I really wish I could upload a different sound. - Prior to the last recharge, but before receiving a battery alert, we had a few cases where you had to press the button a few times before it worked. But that was a few months ago, and it has been working reliably since. Upsides: everything mentioned in the article.
- amluto 11y agoSounds neat, but: I'd prefer not to send all this video into the cloud, and I don't want the expensive brick this will become if the manufacturer goes out of business or decides to add a monthly fee. We really need a clean way to self-host or distribute hosting of the cloud part of the IoT. Maybe Sandstorm will serve this purpose some day.
- mattkevan 11y agoThe article read at first like a spoof of unnecessarily internet-connected gadgets with one-word names. Like Wash, a smartphone-operated wifi washing machine (actually that's not a bad idea, let's get onto Kickstarter). It was only halfway through did I realise it was a serious article about an actual product...