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What outdoor ring camera do you use and do you love it?  
What outdoor ring camera do you use and do you love it?

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The thing I like most about this camera is that it's made to fit onto a standard out door house lighting fixture. Installation is very straightforward.  
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Wired spotlight camera it’s awesome
+29 votes
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Have both the Floodlight Cam Mount and Spotlight Cam Mount. Both are very good, more light with the flood lights. Love all my Ring cameras. Just bought a 3rd Floodlight.  
+12 votes
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Spot w/plug best
+23 votes
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Stickup Cam 2nd Generation (Elite) Wired PoE connected Switch then Router.  
+25 votes
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Doorbell 1 and no, I don’t love it.  
+9 votes
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Im partial to the latest stick up cam, works flawlessly for me.  
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@emie5 wired or battery? I'm thinking of getting battery
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@allergic8 battery. I have 4 cameras total, 2 spotlight and 2 stick up cams. Honestly, the spot light cameras dont seem to work as well. While the stick up cams don't have the motion lights, they are more discreet and in my opinion, have better night vision. Not to mention, about half the price. I did have to buy the extra mounts so i could hang from above, extra 20 bucks each.  
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@emie5 ok thanks that's good to know I bought a ring floodlight camera for the front of the house, just looking for somthing cheap around the side and back so il go for the battery one
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@allergic8 i feel confident you'll be happy with stick up cams
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@emie5 cool thanks
+18 votes
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Have 2 doorbell 1 , and complete waste of 300. 00 so far
+19 votes
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2 doorbell cams and 4 flood light cams they are awesome. Just make sure you have good WiFi coverage or you may have problems.  
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Can you please educate me on the "good wi fi coverage". we have the doorbell and just put up 2 cameras with floodlights and one keeps saying poor wifi. What are the requirements? I'm willing to do whatever to make it better, I just don't know what to upgrade to. Any insight would be appreciated.  
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@cathicathie832 open your ring app then go to your flood light cams and click on the three little dots in the right hand corner next click on settings then device health then look at the RSSI number this is your signal strength. From what I have learned with my own camera once you get above 70 the cams still work but are slow to react and sometimes the video freezes up. Before adding a mesh WiFi system to my home my RSSI values were 76, 59, 71, 62&70 after getting everything hooked up with the mesh system working the values are now 57, 49, 60, 52&40 I also added another flood light cam since and it is at 45. House is 2400 sq ft brick home single floor. Hope this helps.  
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Thanks, mine has in red RSSI - 78, and offline. I gotta figure this out, appreciate your help.  
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@cathicathie832 60 to 65 is the maximum I like to go but as long as they are performing correctly I’d leave as is. However I prefer less then 60 with anything between 50 to 60 as good.  
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Have 2 floodlights and a doorbell pro. Very happy with them, but I do wish at least my driveway floodlight could record 24/7, so I added a nest outdoor camera. The nest camera is junk compared to the rings.  
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@pullen964 it’s been in the back of my mind for a while to add a couple of 4K 24/7 and a NVR it’s not expensive and the location allows for a very easy attic run for the cables. Don’t see Ring adding any sort of 24/7 with the cloud as storage.  
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@daryldaryle they said back in 2018 that they were going to introduce 27/7 recording to some cameras in 2019. and here we are, still without it.  
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@pullen964 If they do it will probably not be what you are thinking of. 1 hour of 720P is 1 Gigabyte and 1. 5 Gigabyte for 1080P. Just do the math it be 10 times the typical Data caps for most ISPs. It would have to be much lower resolution and very low FPS it would look like a time lapse video, think of the snapshot view but maybe 1 FPS and only on powered cameras not battery plus an additional monthly cost. Just get a NVR camera system for 24/7 recording.  
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@daryldaryle I think the snapshot feature was/is rings version of 24/7 recording. The nest camera does the job for me. Just doesn't have the quality the ring floodlight has, but between the 2, they do what I want.  
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@pullen964 Who knows but I would think it is not.  
+4 votes
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Ring Pro. Love it. Just ordered an outdoor stick up cam and two indoor
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Can’t beat the wired floodlight camera. Great video and a lot of light.  
+1 vote
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Love them all! Floodlight cam is the best though!  
+29 votes
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I agree with Wired Floodlight Cam
+29 votes
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Bought mine at Lowe's, love it
+25 votes
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Floodlight - love Spotlight battery - hate Doorbell 2 - dislike
+24 votes
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Door bell and 2 wireless stick up cameras.  
+2 votes
by (360 points)
Love my 3 Floodlight Cams
+8 votes
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We use the spotlight cam solar with 2 batteries and they work well. The solar panels have a lot of sun hitting them each day so the battery never goes below 90% on one battery.  
+26 votes
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Floodlight, But holy cow sometimes it takes forever to connect
+12 votes
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I have one RDB2, one FLC and one SLC. The all work with no problems.  
+26 votes
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Just installed food light last week. Love it.  
+2 votes
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I have two spotlight cameras and 1 floodlight camera
+27 votes
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3 floodlight and ring doorbell pro
+17 votes
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And 3 blink cameras for wildlife. All amazon owned anyway.  
+12 votes
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Battery spotlight cams have a habit of failing on a battery change, especially around the 18 months mark. See the thread on the ring community forums. Definitely go for a mains powered device.  
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@telfer happened to me I have the protect plus plan so it was replaced for free
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@ruthanneruthe yep same here, unfortunately quite a few didn't have the protect plus plan. They are an expensive item to replace after only a year when the original warranty has expired.  
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@telfer agreed
+22 votes
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Doorbell 1, doorbell 3 pro and just recently added a solar spotlight camera. The solar spotlight camera is awesome and I love the motion light as you don't feel the need to respond when the motion light alerts the intruder it's been detected.  
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Will the neighbour's moan about floodlight camera, is the light very bright?  
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@allergic8 they are decently bright, but you can adjust the position of each light.  
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@pullen964 ok I just dont want complaints  thanks
+13 votes
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I have mostly battery operated cameras. 14 total. Several spotlight, a couple of original stickup cams, a couple of newer stickup, 2 doorbells. Most 2 years old or much older, and they are all going strong. I’m not in the camp of “they must be hardwired”. I have a couple of extra batteries and swap them as needed. Saves a lot of wiring hassle and the only camera I’ve ever had go bad was an original doorbell (and TWO power supplies. Lol). Batteries are fine.  
+32 votes
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Floodlight any day
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Wired Floodlight camera, nighttime recordings are like daytime.  
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