Secure Your Home with the 2nd Generation Ring Alarm 14-Piece Kit Home Security System

Friday Bridge: Replacing an existing obsolete wired-in alarm system with a RING wireless alarm. Ring is very good, but it's Terms & conditions are terrible. The RING system itself does meet my needs, but there are lots of things you should know.

AFTER I started to install, I was required to read Terms & Conditions to set up an account. Upon reading them, HOLY SMOKES, that is the MOST one-sided agreement I've ever read. It is so bad, by agreeing, you are at fault for anything you ultimately don't like about RING. [Not that much of an exaggeration]. Blame their lawyers.

Why do I continue? After lots of research, it is otherwise a very good real world solution in this wireless age. All the sensors you will install ARE wireless. I am replacing a wired system, and it has wires everywhere. Not fun. Also my OLD system could have the phone line cut. Not with RING. If it generates an alert, it will sound the base station alarm AND connect to your cellphone, and if the house's internet/TV/Phone cable were cut, it would bypass the cable and go wirelessly through a cell phone tower. If it's a fire alarm and you sign up for the 24/7 monitoring, it will quickly dispatch the fire...

United States on Feb 14, 2023

AV: This was a no brainer purchase for me when changed homes. If you have an alarm already or not, I hope this review will be helpful to you.

Before purchasing an alarm system, you need to set expectations for yourself. What is it going to do for you? Deter burglers? Prevent your kid from running out at night? Know when your toddler runs out the garage door? Lower your home owners insurance premium? There could be many cases. Well with this system, You get far more than what the ADT, Bay alarm or whomever else knocks at your door to sell you a monthly fee and a contract. I'll tell you about why I have an alarm and why this one works for me.

1 - Price. I hate contracts, many of them auto-renew, and unless you read the small print on page 23 section A-4, you wont know that because they wont tell you out loud :). So for me paying for the hardware without a contract was key. CHECK! The price of the Ring.com hardware is fair and the price of professional monitoring WITH CELLULAR BACKUP THAT ACTUALLY WORKS is $10 a month, but wait - did you know it's included if you have the Protect Plus service with Ring.com? Yep! that means that $100 a year you pay for unlimited cameras and...

United States on May 07, 2021