Neighbour watching me on ring doorbell

[fencedispute2024]

My neighbour keeps watching me through their ring doorbell. I’ve asked them to stop (via the doorbell when they were watching me) but they’re continuing to watch me.

they’re definitely watching, rather than just the doorbell being triggered by motion, as the blue light comes on. They’re not very tech savvy so I don’t think they realise that a blue light is on.

I’ve got multiple photos of their doorbell with the blue light from the last few months. Including a video where I asked the doorbell to stop watching me that shows the blue and red lights going off after my request.

I'm starting to feel harassed and think this is in response to the previous issues we’ve had with a fence. (See old post if you’re interested)

where do I go from here?

My wanky neighbour walks past our property constantly and swivels at a 90° angle to stare at our garden. He cranks his neck so far back to continue staring up our driveway that he almost injures himself. He stares at my ring camera for as long as he possibly can as he walks from one edge of the property to another. It's utterly ridiculous. I'm not sure if he's aware it records him. He started it after we made a planning objection to his obtrusive extension. Total nutter. He doesn't do it when his wife is there either.

Can you put some trellis up to obscure the view?

A diagram would help.

You're the person in the wrong if it can capture your neighbour beyond the bounds of your property.

According to a google search the blue light is in if it’s recording, when the speaker is on or if the button has been pressed so doesn’t sound like they are necessarily there.

Not according to google. It suggests it can be blue on other occasions too

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.)

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!

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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 😂

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

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 )

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.

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

@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!'

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

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.

Hairspray on the lens.

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!

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.

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.

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.