Ring doorbell? CCTV?

[purpleme12]

Hi
Do you think ring doorbell or CCTV would be better?
Can you attach ring doorbell to outside walls so it watches your gardens as well as your door?
I guess I'd need my 2 gardens and the side of my house where my door is, to be watched
Is this CCTV job or ring doorbell?
I don't know much about any as I've never had to think of this before
How much did you pay for yours, whatever you got?

I’d get some WiFi cameras for that. We have hive home shield, which is great but a bit pricey. If I was starting again with it I’d probably look at blink cameras, they seem decent and fairly inexpensive.

We have had a ring doorbell for ages and we have recently added a ring security camera which we have overlooking the back garden.

Both items use the same app and can be setup to alert you when there is movement outside. You can as many ring cameras as you need, super easy to install. They just stick on, ours is on the outside windowsill of our bathroom and has a view across the whole garden. Then link the camera to your wifi through the Rinv app - job done.

We have CCTV cameras that we bought from Amazon and installed ourselves. They are connected to an app where we can look at all of the cameras, rewind, record and take photographs and videos of certain moments.
I think you can pay more for sound but we didn't.

Saying that, I want a ring doorbell in addition to these as the ring doorbell would warn you when someone was at the door.

So the ring doorbell if I have it on my outside walls so it's looking over the gardens (as well as the actual door)
Would tell me whenever anyone's in my garden as it happens? But the CCTV camera wouldn't?

The vast majority of WiFi cameras can be set to notify you when it detects movement. But, be warned, they are very sensitive and go off for everything if you have them set for motion. Ours have person detection, which I think most do, so fewer false alerts, but it does sometimes miss things.

I don't mind if they warn me of a cat 🤣

@purpleme12

So the ring doorbell if I have it on my outside walls so it's looking over the gardens (as well as the actual door) Would tell me whenever anyone's in my garden as it happens? But the CCTV camera wouldn't?

You want the Ring doorbell on your door so you can get a full view of someone at the front door and so people arriving can press the doorbell. You can choose to set it up so that it tells when someone is outside.

You can add one or more Ring cameras to the setup, again your choice how you set them up you can activate the ability to detect movement if you want and have the app alert you when movement is detected.

We have ours linked to our Amazon Alexa setup so when the doorbell goes it is announced through Alexa

We have a ring doorbell on our gates at the end of the driveway - it's on a pillar of a wall. But you'd need additional cameras to cover a whole garden - we just get a view quite a long way down the road.

We have the Amazon blink wireless cameras and I can’t fault them. All work through and app, can set sensitivity zooms and schedule the cameras to. I have 3 at front, side and back doors. I’m sure it was about £150 for the kit

@Yellow85

We have the Amazon blink wireless cameras and I can’t fault them. All work through and app, can set sensitivity zooms and schedule the cameras to. I have 3 at front, side and back doors. I’m sure it was about £150 for the kit

Oh wow that's a good price Do you have a link for these at all? Do these record what's going on as well so you can look back if needed? And alert you if someone is in the garden etc?

www.amazon.co.uk/Blink-Home-Security/s?k=Blink+Home+Security&tag=mumsnetforu03-21

Doesn’t look like I can link but here’s the url for them. You can buy a base and add in as many cameras as you need.

They do record and store for 7 days - you can change that on your settings too.

I must have alerts turned off, but yes the should alert you when motion is detected. I’d also recommend getting the silicon covers for extra shelter for them if they are out in the open. They come with wall fixings and little chains that secure them to the fixings too so the camera can’t be lifted off.

You’ve reminded me I need to change the batteries in mine….they recommend lithium, but in 2 years this is the first I’ve had to change them

Ok so you can keep it for more than 7 days if you set it to that?

Thank you

Yeah I think it’s either 30 or 60 days. But you can download it to keep for longer.

Thank you everyone this is very helpful.
I'm wondering if I should get 3 security camera then (rather than 2 security camera for the garden and a doorbell) cos then a security camera might pick up more area around the door?

Any other suggestions welcome too of course

We have ours linked to our Amazon Alexa setup so when the doorbell goes it is announced through Alexa
@ChequerBoard can I ask how you did that? I have both of those, but Alexa doesn't tell me the door is going, though I get a notification on my phone from Ring. Would be really useful if it did alert me to rings.

@Popitdontstopit you need to enable the Ring skill on your Alexa device through the Alexa app.

It will ask you to link to your Ring account, entering the username and password. Then when the doorbell rings Alex will announce it.

If you want the entirety of your property to be monitored, you will need a ring doorbell as well as other cameras. Like pp, I have a doorbell camera and blink wireless cameras. I have zero complaints about them.

We have the Arlo system - great so far, you get an alert on your phone when there is movement (which it records). You can set up a number of cameras and they also do a doorbell.

Oh gosh I don't know what to choose now! 🤣

So if I go with ring I can't just get the security cameras? I need the ring doorbell as well as the security cameras?

Oh and with all these cameras you need a subscription each month? Is that right?

No subscription with blink

With Ring you can get just get the cameras if that is what you what. You just won't have a doorbell if you do that.

If you want to keep the recordings from the security cameras then you will need a subscription for each device, yes.

@Yellow85

No subscription with blink

Yes, there is if you are storing your camera footage in the cloud. Blink subscription plans cost about the same as the Ring subscriptions.

If you don't want to store and playback footage, you don't need a subscription.

Ok
I'd better get a subscription in case I need to keep it
That's that I need them for after all

Oh I didn’t know that. I just download any clips to my phone

Look at the Eufy cameras. They also do a doorbell but we have a number of the cameras (large property) and one covers the front door. No subscription, all data stored on a hard drive (comes with them) in your house which is safer than Ring etc. but you can access the data while out about. Also recognises people and animals and you can be alerted to one or the other or both. It took all of a few minutes to connect and the cameras are battery powered with a charge lasting around 6 months so installation was very easy. The quality is extremely good too day and night (you can store faces for recognition purposes too). I promise I don't work for them!