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Can't you just block the mic somehow?

• fixermark 8y ago
  Exactly. This feels like a feature that can be disabled with a steady hand and a power-drill. But I expect there's still a trap here for customers who don't know their local laws and buy these items thinking it's compliant with local ordinances. OP's comment is reasonable.
• happyringuser 8y ago
  It does seem like you should be able to find the mic and cover it enough to effectively disable audio, but I wasn't able to figure it out in 10 min and worried that whatever I did might not be permanent. I couldn't find any disassembly/DIY repair guides or teardowns for the Ring Cam products so I'm not sure I'd know what I was doing when looking to cut the mic. (I have thought about doing this before with other consumer hardware, like disabling an always-on buzzer on a dryer.) Some products (e.g. fellow Amazon subsidiary Blink) offer this feature in software but I don't know of any consumer-grade security cameras that have an explicitly supported hardware off switch.
• princekolt 8y ago
  I mean, you can always hack the hardware. As long as you don't short-circuit anything, disabling the microphone should be trivial.