Ring Peephole Camera (Door View Cam) | 34–55mm door thickness (Recommended version) | Wireless Doorbell Security Camera with 1080p HD video, Wifi | 30-day free trial of Ring Home

Long battery life. 2 months is possible with a great balanced profile of motion detection and alerting. More if you're frugal. Get a spare battery so you can swap-over when the in-use one is low.It's such a simple, perfect design where you just remove your peephole and slot it in. Viable for those of us who live in flats with strict modfication rules. And, you can just revert back the original keyhole if you move.Haven't been able to find a replacement by another manufacturer. My RSSI is 60 (when battery is lower I've noticed), but can reach mid- or better low 50s generally. But reaction time in capturing movement and rendering 1080 is pretty impressive. Reaction time between real person in front of it and you on your phone app is a bit delayed by a few seconds. Sometimes clarity in speech could be better. Ensure, you have dual broadband as others have said.I hope Ring never confine this design to the books but instead, comes-out with a next-gen with 4k and ability to choose 2.4/5Ghz! Allow for local, removable SD card in case of cloud/network failure is what i'd say. For £2.50 a month, probably the most cost-effective solution for many peoples' door structure circumstances for now.

I am so glad that I bought this Ring View Door Cam, the picture is so clear and depending on background noise, the sound is excellent, the motion detection is awesome, my garden gate is 12ft approx. from my front door where my Ring Door View Cam is, if I set the motion detection two foot back from the gate, it will still detect movement outside of my garden, knock detection is adequate, but doesn't always work.A schedule can be put in place using the app, if there are certain times that you don't want to be notified of movement, the video quality can also be set to HDR, which does use more battery power, but I've not used it yet and I find the picture quality excellent, there is a motion frequency section in settings and you have 3 options, 1. Frequent - captures and notifies you about every movement (shortest battery life) 2. Standard - captures and notifies you about movement less often (standard battery life) 3. Light - captures and notifies you even less often (maximum battery life), I have mine set on standard, I've had it a little over a week and my battery is sitting at 87%, that battery useage includes playing around with it when I first got it, the battery, out of the box takes exactly 6 hours to get to a full charge.My door has raised panels on it, so is different thicknesses in different places, I neglected to measure the place where my peephole actually was, which is thinner than the requirements for the Ring Door View Cam, I've managed to make temporary adjustments for now, but I've been in contact with Ring on Facebook and made a couple of suggestions, they are really good, they're very responsive, they will always answer within a few hours and they said that they wil pass on my suggestions of either a shorter securing nut or a spacer panel for the back, on to their management team.I had a bit of a problem with the app in as much as I couldn't scan the installation code om the rear unit during setup, but you don't need it, you just put in your address and postcode and do it that way, I mentioned the problem with the app to Ring and they thanked me and said they would pass it on to the developers, it is very easy to set up.The app itself is very intuitive, it's easy to understand and to use, there are many settings to go through to enable you to to set it to your own requirements, be careful with the ribbon on the end of the cam when you put it through the peephole, as it's quite fragile, I didn't think that I'd need the spare ribbon that comes with the bell, but unfortunately, I did, fitting the spare one was fairly easy though, but again, be careful when handling it, I couldn't see spare ribbons in the Ring Shop on their website, so I asked them about it and they said that if I ever needed another one, just to let them know and they would send me one.I didn't purchase an extra Ring Door Chime as I didn't feel that I needed it, the ringer is in the outside unit, but it has a good volume to it, the app will also let you know by ringing when the doorbell is pressed and sounding a tone when there is motion outside your door, the sounds both for the doorbell and the notifications on the app, are customisable.So in summing up my review, I feel that the Ring Door View Cam is an excellent product, definitely worth the money. and in my own opinion, Ring Customer Service is second to none, I hope that this review helps people to come to a decision when purchasing their first or next door cam and if you're hesitatiing because of the price of £179, all I can say is, in todays world, what price security?

The Ring Peephole Camera was unbelievably easy to install [though it helped having a normal peephole which just needed to be taken out]. It works brilliantly. Because of security issues it was the police who advised us to get one. I was a little bit disconcerted to answer the door to a deliveryman only to have my daughter, who was in Portugal at the time, pop up and say 'hi mum was that my package just delivered'. The images whether daytime or night time are really clear as is the sound quality.

Loved this. Wish we'd bought one before. We've bought the Door View Cam version to go through the existing spyhole (which we never use). Tip: IMO this is the better location to install the camera from several points of view, including the 'point of view' (centre square and best viewing angle height - on the front door) + the hot-swappable battery is then on the inside of the house and a reasonably strong metal pipe (replacing the old spyhole lens) anchors the device on the inside + no need to use the wired version of this gadget (which in our case would have meant a considerable amount of work with our electrician to place a transformer + cables anywhere near the front door + hiding all the cables mess that comes with it.And so having this Door Cam version of the product + spare battery (£18) solves that problem and leaves the device more reasonably secured on the door with the battery safely on the inside and easily swappable for the spare.We love all features of the device (covered in all the other reviews) but the video clips online aspect and the app software for reviewing clips is very well made as is the installation instructions that come with the app. I would recommend you download the app and follow those instructions (including video clips) and don't go by the 8 page paper 'manual' included (which is OK but doesn't highlight that there's a retaining seal/selofane wrapper around the connection wire which you pull through the spyhole to attach to the battery compartment on the inside of the door. IE This is much more visible on the app/instructions videos - and is well done by Ring.The only gripes so far (which don't warrant losing a star but could be improved, hopefully with a firm/software update) are:1. No control (that I can find at least) on the outside ring style. The default is very 'tinny' and sounds dreadful up loud.2. You can turn down the outside ringer volume but this also turns down the talk audio volume. These should be two different controls as we want to be able to talk loud enough for visitors (on a reasonably busy street) but we don't want the terrible ringer chime going off, every time some rings the bell. I would prefer to turn the chime off entirely on the outside - but can't see an option for that anywhere.3. Final gripe is over the cost of having the ring.com system maintain two devices instead of just the one. The £2 per month for the first device (if you want the extras + video clips stored online/retrievable for 30 days) is probably reasonable enough (and very reasonable if you need it) but you can't add another device at £2 which we would do except the minimum charge for "more than one device" is £8 per month - which is not at all reasonable, unless you were planning on surrounding your house inside and out with Ring web cams etc in which case it's probably very cheap again - but Ring should add a simple £2 per cam charge and can it at £8 for lots, instead.A more serious gripe, as mentioned elsewhere, is the time to connect to your mobile phone. The sensor is good, so you get a pre-warning (just) but unlocking your phone, clicking the notification link and waiting for the video feed to come through before you can say anything is very slow - but not 2-3 minutes (!) I've read elsewhere. It might take 10-20 seconds but that's a lot in some scenarios. In our case, we work from home and can't always answer the door so we have found that the Windows 10 desktop app is very good and much quicker for this: We get a motion detect outside, click on the live view link and can even intervene a visitor before they even press the doorbell (subject to having the right outside audio setting in place, see earlier comment).Overall: love the gadget. Very well designed, built and documented in the app. Works very well for most scenarios but the outside bell chime needs some additional controls/thinking as does the connection time from bell to mobile + additional costs for 2-4 gadgets.