Certified Refurbished Ring Video Doorbell 2

I love the ring doorbell. It looks nice at my front door, especially with the option of different colored faceplates, and it works well. The video and sound quality is good. The app is easy to use, and I like the ability to get notifications on my phone when there's motion at my front door. I dont live in a high crime area but it's always nice to have that extra set of eyes on my home. Plus it comes in handy for me because while I'm at work I'm able to see my son leaving and coming home from school every day.The battery lasts a long time before needing to be charged. I've had it for over a month already and I'm still on my original charge. I ordered a spare battery so that when I need to charge it I can just switch them out and not have to worry about interruption in service. The battery charges with a regular phone charger so it's easy and convenient.My only complaint with the ring doorbell is that in my situation the motion detection is almost too good. I live in a townhouse that is only about 15-20 ft from the street so anytime a car drives by or someone walks down the sidewalk, it triggers my camera. In the settings there is the ability to adjust the field of view slightly but it hasn't been enough to avoid the false alarms. I dont really fault the product for this. It's doing what it's meant to do. Just keep that in mind if you intend on using it in a high traffic area like I do. Other than that, I've been very happy with it and I'm glad I got it.

I purchased the refurbished Ring Video Doorbell 2 for a relative and found that this item looked new. It all had the necessary installation tools, and accessories as if you had purchased a new one at $199. I bought this refurbished unit at $99. Wow what a savings. I installed it for my relative and set it up for them. The camera and motion detection worked great as well as the microphone. It was in perfect working order. Months earlier, I purchased for myself a new Ring Video Doorbell 2 at $199 so I know what came in the box (which I also installed). My relatives were very happy as they could see who was near their property when he they were not home. Also, they signed up for the yearly plan for 1 device which costs $30. The only issue that I had was attempting to connect the Ring Video Doorbell to their wifi network. I had to basically attempt to do it 4 to 5 times. I am not sure why it took that many attempts, but it finally connected then I was able to install it. I used their exiting doorbell mounting bolts so this unit is connected to the wires from the old doorbell. Battery is not an issue. I have read other reviews that seemed to have similar connection problems but I had time to retry and retry again and I finally succeeded. The unit is still working after almost 2 months of use.

Easy install. I have a wired system so it works extremely well and trickle charges the battery to 100 percent daily. Works with the preexisting doorbell in the home. App is very easy to operate and 40 dollars per unit per year for the Ring fee (I have two units on my home). Rename each unit so you’ll know where the motion, package or person is and the phone feedback ie alerts have approximately a 5-10 delay. You can set zones so normal walking or road traffic doesn’t give you false alerts or not and just get everything from walkers to car traffic your choice. Highly recommend. Night vision is limited though I’d say around 20 feet in the dead of night.One concern I found out later after the install is batteries and cold weather. Apparently these batteries need to be removed, warmed the charged. They will not trickle charge when the temperature is below 34 degrees as well the same warning for those that have extreme temperatures as they will not charge and may shut down in direct sunlight with temperatures over 105 F.

It has great motion detection although if you live on a busy street / sidewalk you'll want to customize the zones it monitors and decrease sensitivity to get only relevant detections for your doorway.Me, I live in an old subdivision with not much traffic and want to be warned that a car has drove by or someone has entered my yard, as people have be tampering in my yard rather that casing to steal from my house. Still, if they are doing one, can the other be far behind? So I set sensitivity to it's maximum, have Ring's extra algorithms running, and set the zone to be monitored to the maximum.And it works, mostly.However, cars drive by fast enough such that I often only get the tail end of a car as it's driving by in the Ring app recorded video. The Ring camera is slow then. The solution to that is the Ring Video Doorbell Generation 4 with Preroll, however I could not afford double the price for the Gen 4 Ring Video Doorbell as for this Gen 2 Ring Video Doorbell Refurbished. That's literally the only different, a 2nd security camera is integrated in the Gen 4 Video Doorbell at HD rather than FHD and records all the time rather just only when motion is detected.The most glaring failure in Ring video cameras, and almost all other video cameras is, while these cameras really do capture 1920x1080 FHD or 4K videos the field of view (FOV) of the lens is such wide angles both horizontally and vertically the video captured wind up being pretty darn near useless for identification purposes most times because the details in the video are lacking. The huge FOV means that that HD or 4K video is only the equivalent of about a 320x240 cropped to be a 16:9 perspective and the 4K winds up looking like 640x480 cropped to be 16:9 and then scaled up to be a pixelated limited color palette EGA video. Sad! And almost useless.In the future Ring needs, instead of a wide FOV lens, 6 regular FOV cameras, in 2 rows of 3 columns at the FOV of a 35MM camera and then stitched together as 6 x FHD frames or 6 x 4K frames to make one big frame. Yes, that's a lot of detail but finally really useful for identification. The frames get uploaded according to probability a human or vehicle is in the frame. That's a huge amount of storage and a lot of bandwidth, so redundant local storage is needed too. Until Ring and other security camera solutions have this needed detail you need to supplement your security videos with security cameras with FHD or 4K cameras that have the FOV of about a 35MM camera with local storage. You'd upload manually, only if you ever really had an even that required those videos. I've been looking but not having much luck for such video cameras. Of course higher resolution, more camera sensors, and more reading, writing, and transmitting means such cameras use more power so better batteries that hold bigger charges are needed for such improved security cameras.

Works great