Ring doorbell when you live in a terrace with shared alley

[sweetpickle2]

As topic says really.

I want a Ring doorbell, but we have a shared alley down to our front door as does our next door neighbours- our front doors literally face one another, with about 3 foot in between them.

I can't see how it would work without seeming very intense and basically being pointed directly at their front door. Even if it was angled down the alley, wouldn't it just go off everytime someone from their house left/came home (they have lots of teenagers so always people coming and going).

Is there some other way of doing it that I'm not thinking of?

Why do you want a Ring bell? For security or convenience to answer when not near the door?
I think you can set them to only video when the bell is pressed. Speak to your neighbour and see if they would be concerned with your plans.

Both I suppose- but mainly as delivery drivers round here barely wait 2 seconds before leaving after knocking on the door and I work on the 2nd floor of my house so they're often gone by the time I get downstairs! Would be useful to see if it's eg the Amazon guy and say like- just leave it by the door.

I think you will find even if you get ring it won't be good enough to stop this.

Reason being is ring often takes a couple of seconds to get through to your phone.

My guess is you would probably be better off getting a traditional intercom type doorbell. You can get wireless ones.

Or maybe one that has a separate chime unit !

I don't know if this would work in your case as it sounds like the alley is quite narrow, but we have tried to deal with this in our terraced house by installing the ring camera so that it faces sideways along the street rather than face on, and then in the app you can designate an area of the image as 'blind'/invisible so that you don't receive notifications for movement in that area, and that area just appears as a big grey square in any recordings.