A second minor strike against the Ring Doorbell

MacDaddy

MacDaddy

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Ok, I'm not counting how it captured me falling on my rear this past weekend ... lol

First strike was how it is sensitive to on-coming lights - even though their tech support folks say it isn't.

Second strike I found out about today. It can't be temporarily disabled. We are having some work done on the inside of the house, hardwood flooring, and of course that means they are going in and out all day. Well, I got tired of getting a notification every minute or two, so I shut off the notifications. Well, it still records every single time, so I then get to go into the ap and delete every single recording. Gets a bit tiresome after doing 20-30 an hour for over 8 hours. Checked with the tech support, and basically they told me I have to remove the doorbell from the ap, then re-install it (and set everything back up) when I'm ready for it to run again. Really, you can't put a simple "disable" button somewhere in the setup?

I like it, and still think it is one of the best, but this is a big miss in my book.

Slight rainy day rant is over.

Oh, and I think the hardwood flooring is looking great!
 
Yeah, I haven't jumped on the Ring bandwagon.

'Course, where I live, if someone rings the doorbell we grab the gun. We hardly ever get unexpected visitors, even the JWs have only came back here once.

I kinda like it that way. :)
 
Somewhat related to the Ring doorbell....tomorrow I FINALLY get back into the nerd world. Got an electrician coming to replace 3 ceiling fans and 3 light switches that work with Alexa. How do people function for long periods of time without being able to tell Alexa to turn the lights on or off....it's been brutal.

:D
 
cptlo306 said:
Somewhat related to the Ring doorbell....tomorrow I FINALLY get back into the nerd world. Got an electrician coming to replace 3 ceiling fans and 3 light switches that work with Alexa. How do people function for long periods of time without being able to tell Alexa to turn the lights on or off....it's been brutal.

:D
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An electrician coming?

Have you not learned anything from me? :)
 
Guard Dad said:
An electrician coming?

Have you not learned anything from me? :)
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I don't mess with electricity. I thought about doing the light switches but I wouldn't even attempt the ceiling fans. With my luck, after I replaced the fans and turned them on, the blades would fly off hitting me in the head and breaking windows.
 
I am not even close to being an electrician and even I can replace ceiling fans. I have done at least 10 in my lifetime so far. It's one of the easier jobs as long as you flip the breaker. Same with light switches. But it is nice of you to support a local electrician. Those guys need money too!
 
Even the professionals can screw up. About 10 years after our house was built, my wife was vacuuming in the bedroom when she came to me and complained the unit was making strange noises and cutting on / off. By the time I got back there, it had quit completely as well as all the xmas lights on the front porch and one of the bathroom lights. Checked the breakers, they were still on.

After much investigation, found that one of boxes was very burned, they had failed to get a good contact between the two hot leads in one of the overhead light boxes. The wire nut and the wires had burned completely away with the load of the Christmas lights outside and the vacuum inside. Thank goodness he had used the hard style heat proof boxes, we could have been burned out with those cheap blue plastic ones. I ended up having to install new boxes in the attic to cut in new wires as the others were so damaged that when I cut away the burned area, they were too short to connect any more. (Yea, in hindsight I should have bit the bullet and ripped out the bedroom walls and run new wires, but I didn't want to do that in those days)
 
The Sound Guy said:
Even the professionals can screw up. About 10 years after our house was built, my wife was vacuuming in the bedroom when she came to me and complained the unit was making strange noises and cutting on / off. By the time I got back there, it had quit completely as well as all the xmas lights on the front porch and one of the bathroom lights. Checked the breakers, they were still on.

After much investigation, found that one of boxes was very burned, they had failed to get a good contact between the two hot leads in one of the overhead light boxes. The wire nut and the wires had burned completely away with the load of the Christmas lights outside and the vacuum inside. Thank goodness he had used the hard style heat proof boxes, we could have been burned out with those cheap blue plastic ones. I ended up having to install new boxes in the attic to cut in new wires as the others were so damaged that when I cut away the burned area, they were too short to connect any more. (Yea, in hindsight I should have bit the bullet and ripped out the bedroom walls and run new wires, but I didn't want to do that in those days)
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Heat from over sized (higher wattage) bulbs,missing or lack of proper insulation on ceiling light fixtures can also cause the same effect.
 
Here.

Use This On It.

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rolltidega said:
I am not even close to being an electrician and even I can replace ceiling fans. I have done at least 10 in my lifetime so far. It's one of the easier jobs as long as you flip the breaker. Same with light switches. But it is nice of you to support a local electrician. Those guys need money too!
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That's just because you have hung out with me.
 
MacDaddy said:
Ok, I'm not counting how it captured me falling on my rear this past weekend ... lol

First strike was how it is sensitive to on-coming lights - even though their tech support folks say it isn't.

Second strike I found out about today. It can't be temporarily disabled. We are having some work done on the inside of the house, hardwood flooring, and of course that means they are going in and out all day. Well, I got tired of getting a notification every minute or two, so I shut off the notifications. Well, it still records every single time, so I then get to go into the ap and delete every single recording. Gets a bit tiresome after doing 20-30 an hour for over 8 hours. Checked with the tech support, and basically they told me I have to remove the doorbell from the ap, then re-install it (and set everything back up) when I'm ready for it to run again. Really, you can't put a simple "disable" button somewhere in the setup?

I like it, and still think it is one of the best, but this is a big miss in my book.

Slight rainy day rant is over.

Oh, and I think the hardwood flooring is looking great!
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Electrical tape over the motion, sensor will do wonders.
 
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