Certified Refurbished Ring Video Doorbell 2 - Home Security System

Daniel Perez: Great

United States on Dec 03, 2023

J. A. Grogan: 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...

United States on Jul 19, 2021

zensm: I bought Ring Video Doorbell 2 refurbished, direct from Amazon.com. It was on sale and an outstanding savings off of a new one and even a regular priced refurbed one. I needed a new door bell and thought, why not. Note, that you do not get 30 days free of the cloud service when it is refurbished. I signed up for the $3/ month level. Mine came packaged as if it were new though and that made me happy. If my choices were refurbed $169 and new $199 and I really, really wanted one, I'd buy new. My refurbed price was a jaw droping $90 bucks. Who could say no?

Now that I've had it for a few days (installed on Saturday, it is now Wednesday) I can say that I'm glad that I bought it on such a steep discount and if I paid $200 I'd be very underwhelmed...perhaps even mad.

The concept of Ring is neat and if you think of it is as just a video doorbell - A+. If you think of Ring as something more, like a security camera, then it will fall short of expectations. At least for me. It detects motion about 20 seconds too late - or detects motion fine but then there is lag between that time and when Ring starts to record. This lag is something I'm hoping that can be fixed in a firmware...

United States on Jul 17, 2019