You’ll need the Ring app on your mobile device (Android or iOS) to add the spotlight camera to your Wi-Fi network. In addition to the screws you’ll need to mount the camera, Ring also provides cable clips to keep things neat, although I needed to supplement what came in the box with some cable staples I had in my basement. Ring provides a generously long power cord (I measured it to be roughly 18 feet) with a USB-C connector at the camera end, a two-prong plug at the other end, and an in-line power supply so you don’t need to worry about jamming a wall wart into the bubble cover on an outdoor outlet. The obvious advantage of the AC-powered model is that you never need to worry about batteries going dead. You can also plug a solar panel into this port if you want to run the camera on battery power. The camera is powered via USB-C cable and an plug-in cable in this model. The ball on the back of the Ring Spotlight Cam Pro fits into a socket that you mount to a wall or to your home’s roof eave. You can tighten a security screw to make it harder for a thief to steal the camera’s battery, but it doesn’t take a Herculean effort to pop the camera out of its socket mount. Ring also sells accessories for mounting to objects such as a rain gutter or a pole. Any model can be mounted to either a vertical surface, such as a wall, or a horizontal surface (e.g., a roof eave). The battery-powered models are the easiest to set up, simply because you don’t need to find a nearby outlet or wrangle a cord. The specs and operation of the lights and camera are otherwise identical, and you can add batteries to either of the AC-powered models. If AC power isn’t available, there are two models that run on battery power (the camera has a chamber that can accommodate one or two of the quick-release rechargeable batteries that Ring uses in its doorbells and other battery-powered cameras).Įach of the two battery-powered options come with one quick-release battery: the $230 Battery and the $250 Solar, with the latter adding Ring’s second-generation solar panel to trickle-charge its battery(ies). The Ring Spotlight Cam Pro can operate on AC from an outlet (the $230 Plug-In model, reviewed here) or from hardwired AC power (the $250 Wired model is a good option if you’re replacing an existing fixture). Michael Brown/Foundry Installing the Ring Spotlight Cam Pro There’s also an option to show a satellite image of your home, which you’ll see in another screenshot. This screenshot of the Ring app shows Ring’s new Ring’s Bird’s Eye View feature: The dots show an aerial view of the path I traversed while walking in front. Tap on the small window and it will swap places with the larger one. Picture-in-picture mode works just as it does on your TV, with either pre-roll or Bird’s Eye View displayed in a small window overlaid on the larger main view. You can enable either feature in the Ring app, but you can’t have both at the same time. Here’s why: Bird’s Eye View depends on the Ring app’s picture-in-picture mode, but so does Pre-Roll, which allows the camera start recording a few seconds before the camera’s motion detection sends you a push notification. The Ring Spotlight Cam is a great home security camera, for reasons we’ll explore in depth, but I found Bird’s Eye View to be its least compelling feature. And that’s the basis for the camera’s most-hyped feature-Bird’s Eye View-an aerial map of the motion events that triggered the camera to turn on its dual spotlights and/or record a video event. The Ring Spotlight Cam (the Plug-In model is reviewed here) offers a host of new and innovative features, including radar-based motion detection.
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