Today, I got a hold of the new Ring Flood light cam and I’ll be doing the review from opening the box, installing, setup and browse some of its features and show you sample video footage.

So here are some features: it is a 1080 HD video camera with 2 way communication and infrared night vision; it has advanced motion detection just like their doorbell, also has a 110 db siren and a motion and remote activated 3000 degree kelvin LED flood lights.

The lights are activated by motion and also manually using the app and the security siren will only go off when you manually push it from the app…so it will not go off unless you want it to go off.

So, let’s open up the box…

Say Hello to Ring…thw world’s most advanced flood light…we have the whole unit already setup and ready to install.

We have the wires…there are only 3 wires that needs to be connected. And if you are installing this to replace your existing flood light in a junction box, then this is basically a simple process of just swapping the light and the wires.

The lights and the camera and sensor are adjustable so you can postion them easily by just loosening the screws.

So what else in the box? We have a security decal, quick start guide, installation manual which is pretty detailed on how to install this flood light camera. We have the guide for setting up the app and connecting the camera and some light switch stickers. You have to put this sticker on the light switch reminding you not to turn it off…for the camera to work, it needs constant power and the flood light will only turn on at night when it senses motion and you can manually turn on the lights via the app.

Also we have the mounting bracket and a small box of installation kit, we have a phillips screw driver which is also a torx wrench on the other end, we have a socket wrench, some screws and wire nuts, we have a hanger so that we can hang the light unit while we are hooking up the wires.

As to the camera, we have the camera lens here, the weather proof speakers, the motion sensor both for the light and the camera, I’m assuming this is the mic and on top is the setup button.

So, it is time to install this flood light cam.

Safety first, so we need to turn off the power from the lights at the breaker box.
Remove the existing floodlight, remove the bracket and unscrew the wires.

Now it is time to install the mounting bracket. And this is where I had an issue. The machine bolts that came with the kit were too big for the holes on the junction box…so I have to use the old bolt from the original bracket that I just removed.

Next, we need to hang the camera using the hanger that came with the kit and hook up the wires. Black wire to black…White to white and bare wire to ground.
Then will tuck in the wires inside the junction box and slide in the light through the 2 bolts on the mounting bracket and screw in the nuts.

Lastly, we just need to adjust the camera and the lights and tighten the screws.

The next step is to go download the Ring app in the app store, google play or Windows store if you haven’t done it yet, so let’s open the app. I already have the Ring doorbell, so I just need to add the floodlight camera, click set up your device, swipe to get to the flood light cam, click setup, name your camera and choose your address, click continue, it will prompt you to make sure that the cameras bottom sensor light is flashing, click yes.

Then it will prompt you to exit the app and got to your WiFi settings and log in to the ring’s WiFi, then go back to the app, click which WiFi you want to connect to, type in the password and wait until it connects. Click on Live view to view your camera.
Now, I’ll go outside to see how the camera looks. There are some choppiness but I think because I have just an OK WiFi connection.

 

Now, I’ll show you the basic features of the app….you can click the gear icon on the top right to show the option on renaming the device or to remove the camera all together. You can toggle the light control on or off… by default the lights will turn on when it senses motion at night…just like a floodlight with motion control..so I’ll just let it be. Then there is motion alerts switch..which I think everybody needs to turn it on..that is why I bought the camera in the first place…

Here, we have the live view…the camera footage is pretty good…1080p and pretty good field of view…I can basically see my whole front yard. Then you can turn on the speaker to listen in…if you listen in on the recordings, it is pretty clear… If you want to talk, press the green phone and to stop the red phone…on the plus icon you can turn on the siren or can turn on/off the light.
Press the hangup button to close the live feed and you can see we also have the siren button here..two step process to turn it on…and we have the event history..where you can view your recorded motions and live views…and as you can hear..the sound is pretty clear..

We have the device health, where you can see how strong your internet connection is..then we have the light settings where you can schedule time frames for the lights to turn on or off which I’m not going to do. At the bottom there is advanced settings where you can set motion zones for the light sensor adjusting its sensitivity and then there is also a timer for the lights…

Then we have the motion settings which I need to tweak..on top is the slider which adjusts the sensitivity of the sensor… to the left lesser activity. i’ll just keep it in the middle.

Then we have the motion zones which you have these dots that you can move around and adjust on which zones you want the sensor to monitor. Like in my case, I don’t need to be alerted when cars pass by but I want to know and video recorded if somebody goes in my drive way or even around the grass areas…then click save. You can even add another zone if you want..This is what I like about the Ring because it is pretty good in picking up motion on the zoned areas and the last 2 days I’ve been using it, I never had a false detection yet…click done to save.
You can also schedule motion detection if you want..so if you have a lot of traffic in the morning for example and don’t want to get notified, you can schedule it to just monitor at night…or a specific days and time range. On mine, I’m not going to tweak that..

Then we have linked chimes, this is another Ring product..
We have shared users, is you want other people or family to access the camera..

Thats basically it…for the app..now let’s check out some video footage…
I just chopped it up for privacy because at closer range, you can make out the license plate. This one the motion detection activated.
This footage at night with the lights off..infrared on..then I’ll turn on the light…

Alright final thoughts… This Ring flood light camera is a pretty innovative idea and I like the build and quality…as to longevity, I’ll do a 6 month and a year review on this and will post a video if there are issues that will come up. Now, there are a couple of issues that I want to bring up. First, the machine screws that are needed to attach the mounting plate to the junction box is too big. I don’t know if this is an oversight. As you can see in the picture, the right screw is the one that came from the kit and the left one is the one that is needed. I used the screws from the bracket from the other light that I removed, so it didn’t become a big issue with me and I’m pretty sure they will fix this in their future kits.

Now, there is a second one. Like me, there will be a lot of people that will be installing this in the garage. As you can see, I have a brick home and the garage door is metal. I have issues with connectivity with my WiFi. I can pick up my neighbors signal across the street but not mine. I needed to use an extender that I placed in the garage just to make it to work. So, for anybody that wants to install this, check out your WiFi signal first with the garage door closed and make sure you have a good signal. Ring also sells a Ring chime pro that is an extender also that I will check out and review in the next couple of weeks. I’m hoping that it will fix my connectivity issue.

Aside from that, I’m happy with this floodlight camera. I like that their motion detection is pretty spot on.

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Here is my review of the Ring Video Doorbell