To think that some people don’t use the ring doorbell as they think it stops them being on camera

I hate ring doorbells.

Personally, I think it's utterly weird to want to know who is walking past and knocking on your door when you're not in the house. Curtain twitching to the nth degree. Also, ime frequently used to screen grab and post pictures on local Facebook groups of BME people "acting suspiciously".

Also weird to expect all people who may knock at your door to understand the functionality of a piece of tech you decided to attach to your house. No, I don't understand how it works and I'm not inclined to learn.

Also, I don't want to talk to people through a ring doorbell. If you're not available to answer the door please don't engage me in an awkward conversation about how you're at work or on the toilet (this has happened to me once!) - just don't answer.

I feel better now. And remember, it ain't about you if it ain't about you.

The person who eavesdrops on her neighbours is coming out the worst here. Very nasty not to ensure when you get one of those doorbells that your neighbours know you are spying and eavesdropping on them.

Yes I have one but often forget to change the battery on the chimer inside only when some1 says I used the bell do I realise the battery needs changing as it never went of.

I live in a road where most of the properties are in a square, with a green area and play equipment in the middle.

I can hear the Ring doorbells from the properties opposite to my home.

Fair enough. The external chime sound is useful for visitors to the know the bell is working, but it can also be turned down or off.

I don’t have a ring doorbell but I do have a regular one, which is quite obvious. I also have a door knocker and I’d say the majority of people use that which surprises me. Sometimes it’s hard to tell, if I’m at the back of the house, whether it’s my door or my neighbours they are knocking on (terraced).

I mostly don't even notice them, just knock out of habit.

I live in a first floor flat which has a communal door with one neighbour. I have to walk across the flat, down the stairs, open my front door, then open the communal door.

Like we are all sitting by the front door all the time.

You hear of police requesting video doorbell footage of before a crime scene. Such as a missing person. As terraced houses, people walking past trigger the cameras.

I can’t turn the sound down I don’t own it, yet I hear it several times a day on my estate.

They REALLY piss me off. I open the door and let them know too.

I like your style

Eh? You can down the sound down, or mute it altogether. You don’t even need to use a chime unit at all. They’re far more controllable than a traditional doorbell.

And then you get the delivery drivers who use the bell, the door knocker, hammer on the glass and flick the letterbox. I walk slower to them.

A lot of them don’t work so I ring then knock.

I don't mind if people knock instead of using the doorbell. I just wish they would knock with knuckles instead of the fist pounding some delivery drivers do. I feel like I'm being raided by the police.

I always knock. Often doorbells don’t work, so I prefer to just knock. I don’t even think about it.

I have a doorbell and a letterbox.

People decide they'd rather knock on our nice glass vision panel.

It drives me mad.

I was friends with a woman who had a ring doorbell. She lived in a mid terrace and told me about the time the neighbours either side of her were leaning over the dividing wall in front of the houses chatting and they started bitching about her. Friend was away on holiday and they obviously didn't know the ring was recording 🙈

More out of habit for me. We don't have a bell and often they don't work so I tend to knock.

I know they've got a motion sensor. I know they're recording as soon as you get near them.

And yet I still knock. Because some people are ringers and some are knockers. And I'll always be a knocker.

Lots of people had doorbells that hadn’t worked for years in the past and sometime they don’t ring inside near the door so if you’ve pressed it and hear nothing you don’t know whether it’s worked or not so I would press AND knock unless I clearly heard the bell sound.

It’s been ages since I’ve called at someone’s house!

There was a Modern Life is Genius about Ring doorbells the other day and apparently they don't have a motion sensor. Instead they have a tiny heat sensor. And the inventor hates the 'tinny' ring but they lost speaker quality when they shrank the unit to make it doorbell sized. The original one had a much better ring but was bigger.

Totally not the point of the thread!

We have a normal doorbell and people ring and knock at the same time. You can't hear the ring much from outside but we can hear it inside

If you don’t have one why would you know how it works? We don’t have one but I know others that do. We’ve never sat down and had a discussion about their doorbells ever. I know they take in a fair bit of the street and aren’t just limited to ppl knocking on your door, some record sound, maybe they all do, I have no idea. It’s a massive invasion of privacy if you’re walking past them and they pick you up on them even if you aren’t even visiting a house IMO. We’re the most monitored country in Europe I think with CCTV, for good and bad. It’s nothing to find weird if ppl don’t know exactly how they operate when they don’t have one though.

I don’t use Ring doorbells as they are all so loud. If room 101 was still a thing a would be putting that chime straight in there.