Neighbour watching me on ring doorbell

Some people are absolutely mad and have main character syndrome in the neighbourhood don’t they! Like why would I want to watch you going skulking round the street all the live long day

I don’t have a front garden it films the street, which is perfectly legal, and the home of the neighbour across the road, from whom I have permission. It doesn’t film any of the next door neighbour’s property because the camera can’t bend round corners. She walks back and forth in front of my house huffing and puffing. I can see her car from the camera and that’s it

I think people need to start properly understanding laws on home CCTV.

If I get a movement notification I will often open the app, and go onto "live" as it's quicker than waiting for the recording. Didn't know it showed a different light though!

My neighbours' doorbell is lit up blue all night (and probably all day but I have only noticed it at night) so unless they take shifts at doorbell monitoring, it doesn't necessarily mean anyone is "watching" you. It's also blue when I know there's nobody in the house at all, apart from the dog. And for all those talking about doorbells recording people, nothing is actually recorded unless you pay a subscription, which not everyone does. In fact, I don't know anyone who does. It's just like having a spyhole in your front door but you don't actually have to go to the door to use it.

Yeah it would be pretty stupid to vandalise it when… it will film her

You could try a but of "dog training". To stop my dog following me everywhere, I spent a while just flitting between rooms until she got bored and stopped. I would pick a night when there's some good tv on and just wander in and out endlessly, doing nothing interesting. It would drive them mad.

If they're doing it on purpose, I'd be tempted to lift up my Jersey and give them a flash and a little wave.

I sometimes put mine to live view if I'm upstairs and can hear an argument or noise out the front.
Although it does always catch people walking past on the pavement. But it caught some burglars too so I'm not restricting what it records.

Must be expensive on batteries if their blue light keeps coming on. You have to configure these correctly, otherwise they pick up all movement. Wonder if they have it incorrectly configured?. My front garden is fairly small and the pavement is close to the door and I only track movement by the door or immediately under the windows. Otherwise the 🐕 would go off on one every time someone walked by!

Hairspray on the lens.

They are triggered by movement with a certain arc from the doorbell. So if you walk past it will automatically trigger the doorbell to record. Our is set up so that it triggers when someone comes through our gate - we are up a long track and in a rural area so at risk of garden tool theft etc.

Blimey, I would hate to live near a doorbell like this too.

@fencedispute2024 You must spend a lot of time watching them,watching you? Maybe their conversation is
'Oh bloody hell, that neighbours been sat staring at our door all day again!'

To be fair, you could be at work and checking the notification from your desk 😉

There's not an agency on earth that would make them, if they said no.

Mine record me - front and back - and then laugh and talk about what I've been doing. Literally the most mundane things. I don't get it.

I think you've answered your own concerns .
Don't give it anymore head space .
( Or play a game and walk funny down your path every time or pretend your a cat walk model or something like that )

Every time you see the blue light wave and shout 'Evening Tom!' or whatever, at least they then know you know they are nosey twats

Protest yellow umbrellas don’t sound boring tbf. I would definitely watch someone putting on a performance like that even if I wasn’t watching in the first place 😂

That was my understanding. I have a video doorbell (not a ring) and the light comes on when it’s recording, even if no one is watching.

You could address this in several ways.....

You could get your own Ring doorbell
You could speak to them, face to face, and state how unnerving it is for you
You could ignore it - after all, if it records you then it records everyone who comes to your property thus providing you with evidence if anything has been stolen/damaged.

It's triggered by movement surely? They aren't watching you

I think the best course of action is to just ignore it and go about your life like you normally would. What they want from you is a reaction and by you filming their camera and talking to it they are getting just that. Being mean and harassing people is their form of entertainment. So just do absolutely nothing and they will get bored.

I don’t get this, surely it’s the same as them looking out of their window, which they have every right to you. You could flip it round and you have actually been spying at their front door, filming it etc, they may feel harrassed by you.

I think we have the same neighbour! We caught ours just stood filming our doorbell on several occasions. We had only recently moved in, so I put her on the local facebook group with her face blurred, it turned out she was a regular for filming peoples doorbells and car dash cams!

Have they really got nothing better to do? Why don't you just get on with your life and ignore it? I know it must be annoying but if they can see that it doesn't bother you, they'll probably get bored and do something else. (And even if they don't, it doesn't have to affect you.)