![]() ![]() The greeting will play, regardless if you’re home or not, whenever you don’t answer the doorbell ring in the mobile app. The greetings are good, in theory, but in practice they’re confusing and awkward. If you sign up for Ring’s Protect subscription service, you can turn on Alexa Greetings for the Pro 2, which allows Alexa to answer your door if you can’t get to it. Meaning you can ask your Nest Hub or Echo Show 8 to show you a live feed from the Pro 2, or use your smart devices as electronic wireless chimes to alert you when someone rings the doorbell. The Doorbell Pro 2, like the rest of Ring’s products, integrates with Amazon’s Alexa platform (which makes sense, as Amazon owns Ring) and Google Assistant. Google’s Nest Hello doorbell, for example, has had this feature for a few years now as long as you sign up for the Nest Aware monthly subscription service. It’s a weird miss and is common on other doorbells. No Ring product can alert you when the camera detects a package and when the package is picked up. You can then view that map - in real time or when viewing a recorded clip - to see if a person walked up straight to your door, across your yard or maybe to a window first before arriving at your door. Ring’s aptly named Bird’s Eye View uses satellite mapping data and the doorbell’s onboard radar to map the path a person or animal took as they approached the doorbell. False motion alerts were few and far between on any Ring doorbell we tested, much improved since we began testing Ring products a couple of years ago. This is thanks to the radar technology inside, but also due to how far Ring’s motion detection algorithms have come. The Pro 2 can detect motion at “any distance,” according to Ring, but they suggest limiting its motion detection to only check for movement at up to 30 feet away, and consistently and reliably detected events within the specified range we set in the app, and didn’t send any false alerts. ![]() Related: These $15 faceplates let you customize your Ring Doorbell.The pre-roll video gives you information about what was going on just before the camera was triggered, and is only found in Ring’s higher-end doorbells like the Pro 2 or Video Doorbell 4. Pro 2 leverages its smarts to record a short clip of video just before any movement is detected. Color night vision makes it easy to identify what you’re looking at in clips captured in darkness. Both livestreamed video and captured clips were clear and free of any pixelation. ![]() The Arlo Wired Video Doorbell and Logitech’s Circle View Doorbell offer similarl aspect ratios, and frankly we feel all video doorbells should offer a similar perspective. The Doorbell Pro 2’s super-wide, tall field of view (150 degrees by 150 degrees of coverage) gives you a head-to-toe perspective on your porch, perfect for spotting packages and identifying visitors. The entire installation process is well documented in the Ring app, complete with troubleshooting steps and all of the required tools - save for an electric drill, which we highly recommend - are included in the box. We think the Pro 2’s small footprint and design is more appealing than the larger Ring Video Doorbell 3 and Doorbell 4. It’s a hardwired doorbell, and it works with your existing chime when you install the included Pro Power Kit. It’s the most expensive video doorbell we tested, but we think it is the best smart video doorbell available.Īs noted in our full review, installation of the Doorbell Pro 2 took us about 15 minutes. Plus, a robust set of sensors, including radar, gives you not just accurate alerts but the ability to reconstruct the path a visitor took to your door, handy for checking to see if anybody was casing the joint. The Ring Video Doorbell Pro 2 has a tall, wide field of view that captures everything at your door - it’s a setup we wish every video doorbell offered. Your CNN account Log in to your CNN account ![]()
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