Ring Indoor Cam (1st Gen) by Amazon | Compact plug-in HD Indoor Security Camera with Two-Way Talk, Wifi, Works with Alexa | alternative to CCTV system | 30-day free trial of Ring Protect

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Compact plug-in indoor Security Camera that lets you see, hear and speak to whoever’s there from your phone, tablet or select Echo devices.
Check in on your pets from wherever you are with this wifi-enabled indoor Security Camera.
Watch over your whole home by connecting Indoor Cam with your other Ring devices for an affordable motion-activated alternative to a traditional CCTV system. Subscription sold separately to record.
Get notifications whenever motion is detected by adjusting your Motion Detection settings.
Check in on your home in real-time HD video using the Live View feature in the Ring app.
With built-in wifi connectivity, you can set up your Indoor Security Camera in just a few minutes.
Place Indoor Cam on a flat surface or mount it to a wall with the versatile mounting bracket.
Never worry about charging a battery thanks to non-stop, plug-in power.
Standard features such as instant notifications, Live View and Two-Way Talk are available out of the box and for free on all Ring devices. Add a Ring Protect Plan (subscription sold separately) to record, review and share the moment you missed (30-day free trial included in your purchase).

Customers say

Customers find the security camera to be a great quality device with fantastic day and night picture quality, automatic setup, and excellent value for money. They appreciate its security features, including live motion detection notifications to their phones, and consider it an extra layer of home protection. The audio quality receives mixed feedback – while some find it clear, others report poor audio. The camera’s functionality also gets mixed reviews, with some saying it works brilliantly while others report it fails to work at all.

8 reviews for Ring Indoor Cam (1st Gen) by Amazon | Compact plug-in HD Indoor Security Camera with Two-Way Talk, Wifi, Works with Alexa | alternative to CCTV system | 30-day free trial of Ring Protect

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  1. N. Walton

    Nice, easy setup, clear video but a bit sensitive.
    I got this ring camera to be a security camera in the house while I’m away, alerting me when people are in a certain room. For that purpose, this little camera is very well priced, has good clear video quality and night vision, which is just about perfect.Setup was easy. Plug it in, load up the RING app and scan the QR code. The code itself is a little small on the camera itself, but it did scan after a few attempts. then it all just set itself up automatically, updated and reported when it was ready for action.The video quality is above average. You can’t see the pores in people’s skin, or the hairs on a gnat’s leg, but you can certainly make people out, and using pinch-unpinch to zoom in on certain area when viewing on the phone. Clarity when zoomed it pretty good, even in low light and IR mode, with little speckling, showing that the sensor is, in fact, relatively good (at least on the 2021 model). Even holding things up to the camera, it’s hard to make out specific details. Like, if someone holds up a document with average size writing, you can barely make out the words.The angle of the lens is very wide, giving a pronounced fisheye effect. That’s great for covering up to 170 to 175 degrees, but makes the camera less useful if you just need it to focus in on a corridor or one patch of ground. The resolution across the central patch of the image is too low for that, so you’d need another camera with tighter focus lens.The configuration is a tad opaque in places, but if you’ve set up security systems, or a ring doorbell, it’s all very familiar. The same zones and settings.The only bugbear I have is that, unlike the ring doorbell, the indoor camera triggers upon lighting changes as clouds go by. At least three or four times a day, a cloud will go past the sun and I’ll get an alarm. The only way to solve this is to turn the sensitivity to minimum, but that means it may not be as sensitive to people or movement as it could be. I’d expect the camera to be better at excluding whole-scene brightening/darkening!The main feature that I think is missing is a “tripwire” feature, whereby it will set off an actual siren in the doorbells. The camera itself has a siren in it, but that’ll instantly tell anyone intruding where the camera is. I’d rather have the camera set off a siren in the chime doorbell which is MUCH louder. You can *SORT OF* emulate this by having the indoor camera cause the chime to ring like there’s someone at the door, *tinkle tinkle* but certainly no scary Woo-woo siren.On the flip-side you can manually set off a siren in the camera if you need to scare someone off, which is okay, I suppose, but that means you need to get the alert which means leaving your phone with audible alerts on all night while you’re sleeping, which is terrible if you get emails, SMS or social media pings overnight.On the whole, it’s a great device with nice features. I might take out the extended ring recording thing, but I’m not sure it’s worth $8 a month when I can buy an ONVIF camera for $50 and have it upload to a RasPi for $20, making every year after year 1 free compared to the camera. Even professional quality systems can cost as low as $200. Perhaps Amazon should consider dropping the rate by $1 to $2 a month to make it more competitive compared to dedicated security systems.

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  2. eren

    Can be relied on
    Can’t beat a ring cam, they do need to work on the timleine gap on recording though

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  3. Paul

    Nearly brilliant.
    OK, so, I got this bundled with an echo 8, it was a nice wee bonus.First, I probably wouldn’t have “bought” this. It is a bit of a gimmick. However, I’ll be honest and say the picture is great and there are occasional connection issues, but I think that relates more to my wi-fi than the cam. If you’re subject to power-cuts however… you probably will need to acclimatise to pairing it again. It’s more irritating than annoying.Some people asked if you can use it through a window. Well, yes, and no. Mines faces out a window. I have quite a panoramic view, and whilst it’s not the human eye, it can be very relaxing watching the world go by. I did notice it was difficult at night, due to the infra red, which makes window viewing near impossible, but you can turn off IR in the app, and, to be honest, it looks pretty good. I also cover up the little blue light to reduce reflection.So this is the problem. I also have a Ring doorbell. There’s no issue with multiple devices. But… the doorbell is battery operated. It stops broadcasting after a few minutes to save battery life. This is a good thing. But the indoor cam runs off the mains. I’m only going to run out of power when the UK does. I can cope with a cam that’s on for more than 5 minutes. Again this is more irritating than annoying, because it reconnects easily… but…There is no logical reason why this cam times out after a few minutes. I’m sure an update would rectify this. If Amazon/Ring would address this, it’d be perfect.All I would say though is, please don’t buy this as a security camera. Motion detection is reasonable, but not perfect. It’s a nice toy, and works very well as such. But be aware it has its limitations. Pretty much, it “usually” works, but can be temperamental.All in all though, I like it. Would I pay full price for it? Possibly. I think it’s better as part of a deal with something you really want. But I do like it a lot so it wouldn’t be a bad purchase. If it didn’t cut out after a few minutes, I think I probably would. But it feels like it’s got a nag screen, like “you’re not watching me, I’m in the huff” and I don’t need technology to be my ex-wife.If they sort that out with an update, I’d definitely recommend it. For now though, I’d advise anyone interested to see what deals it gets bundled with. As much as I’d like to, I can’t really advise someone to buy this at top dollar price, because, it falls short on what other cams can offer, even though it is much better in other aspects. So nearly brilliant.

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  4. Kalgator

    Es una camara que tiene muy buena calidad de imagen, facil de instalar y, que gracias a la app, puedes tener mayor seguridad en casaLo unico que valoro negativamente es que podrían tener una batería interna por si se fuese la luz (o desconectase alguien el cable), que pudiese seguir grabando unas horas, pero para ello, ya existen las cámaras con batería intercambiables (vamos, me gustaría que fuesen un hibrido con cable y batería, donde no tener que ir cambiando las baterías cada cierto tiempo)

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  5. amanda

    I LOVE this camera, i bought it to keep an eye on my cat whilst Im at work etc. It not only has night vision but it also has a motion sensor so that when anyone enters my house i get notified. The only down side is that the sound doesn’t work well, you cant really talk through it, you can hear but when you talk its disjointed and just makes squeaking noises! I personally don’t require this feature as i haven’t yet reached the level of crazy cat lady where i want to talk to my cat but it could be useful to some. The other features are fantastic and the mobile app is so easy to use, live stream camera and it means i feel soooo much more comfortable leaving the cat at home.

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  6. Mayimei

    Reçu mes 2 caméras très rapidement. Aussitôt reçues, aussitôt installées avec l’essai gratuit de 30 jours d’enregistrement.Permet de voir ce qui se passe au domicile en cas d’absence. pas seulement intrusion, mais également anomalie sur installation.Il faudrait que le système se développe pour accéder aux mêmes fonctions que celles utilisées aux Etats-Unis.Sans cela je ne suis pas sure de valider l’enregistrement après l’essai.

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  7. R.GF

    Ich habe die Kamera heute erhalten – sie ist mein erstes Ring Produkt. Die Einrichtung funktionierte sehr einfach und schnell und ist durch die App selbsterklärend. Geliefert wird die Kamera, ein Netzteil mit Steckeradaptern für Deutschland und weitere Länder (wechselbarer Stecker) sowie Kurzanleitungen und kleine Ring-Aufkleber, welche auf die Aufzeichnung aufmerksam machen sollen (die sind aber nicht DSGVO-konform :)) …Ich habe ansonsten seit knapp 2 Jahren die Arlo Kameras in Verwendung (eine Arlo der ersten Generation sowie eine Arlo Pro) und habe daher auch Möglichkeiten zum Vergleich.Bild + Ton:Die Bildqualität ist aus meiner Sicht sehr gut und besser als bei den oben genannten Arlo Kameras. Das Bild ist scharf und die Farben sind gut. Auch Nachts gelingen die Aufnahmen in Räumen dank der integrierten Infrarot LEDs sehr gut. Bei Bedarf lässt sich auch Nachts ein Farbmodus zuschalten, das hatte ich so vorher noch nicht gesehen:). Der Ton rauscht bei der Aufnahme etwas, das liegt denk ich aber an den internen Einstellungen / Abstimmungen vom Hersteller um auch leisere Geräusche aufzunehmen und ist mir von Arlo und Amazon Echo Geräten schon bekannt gewesen. Gespräche können auf den Aufnahmen aber verstanden werden / der Ton wäre bei einem Einbruch aus meiner Sicht verwendbar.Bewegungserkennung:Die Ring Kamera zeichnet (im Gegensatz zu Arlo) permanent auf und sucht dann per Software nach Bewegungen im Bild. Hierfür kann ich in der App sehr einfach einzelne Zonen oder den gesamten Bildbereich markieren und auch kleinste Bewegungen von kleinen Objekten werden schon zuverlässig auf “halber Sensitivitätseinstellung” erkannt. Bei Bedarf kann ich einstellen, dass die Bewegungserkennung nur auf Personen reagieren soll. Aus meiner Sicht funktioniert die Erkennung sehr gut und zuverlässig. Wenn eine Bewegung erkannt wird, wird eine Nachricht an die Ring App versendet – das funktionierte in meinem Tests mit maximal einer Sekunde Zeitversetzung. Ich kann innerhalb der App einen Ton für die Benachrichtigung einstellen. Die Kamera zeigt mir dann einige Sekunden Video (mit Ton wenn aktiviert) vor der erkannten Bewegung sowie den Moment der Bewegung selbst und weiteres Videomaterial danach (quasi einen kompletten Ausschnitt). Ich habe dann zusätzlich jederzeit die Möglichkeit, mich Live auf die Kamera aufzuschalten.Weitere Funktionen:Die Kamera verfügt über einen Lautsprecher und kann so auch als Gegensprechanlage mit Bildübertragung verwendet werden. Der Lautsprecher ist ausreichend laut und klar.Bei Bedarf lässt sich der Lautsprecher als Alarmsirene verwenden 🙂 wobei er dafür etwas zu leise ist…. eher ein kleines Gimmick oder eine ggf. nutzbare Funktion, wenn man weitere Ring Produkte hat.Die Kamera lässt sich zeitgesteuert nach einem individuellen Plan (je Tag) aktivieren oder deaktivieren. Im Gegensatz zu Arlo fehlt mir hier aber ein Feature (vllt habe ich es noch nicht gefunden) und zwar Geofencing. Innerhalb der Arlo App, kann eine standortbasierte Steuerung aktiviert werden. Die App aktiviert bzw deaktiviert das System dann in Abhängigkeit des Standorts der Benutzer – bedeutet wenn bei uns alle Smartphones das Gebäude und direkte Umfeld verlassen, schaltet das System die Kameras bzw die Bewegungserkennung ein. Bei Ring muss das scheinbar rein zeitgesteuert oder manuell passieren.Insgesamt hat die Kamera ein Top Preis/Leistungs Verhältnis und ist klar empfehlbar!Das Abo finde ich preislich absolut angemessen – es wird aber nur benötigt, wenn man Aufnahmen speichern können möchte bzw einen längeren Zeitraum (30 Tage) über die Kamera nachverfolgen will.Die Kamera funktioniert übrigens auch problemlos mit Amazon Echo Show Geräten! Bei Ersteinrichtung erfolgt bei Bedarf gleich eine Verknüpfung durch die Ring App.Sofern die Rezession für sie hilfreich war, würde ich mich über eine entsprechende Bewertung freuen 🙂

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  8. Renegade-LTDC

    La cam è davvero eccellente, fa buone riprese in Full HD, pratica anche la visione notturna. La possibilità di poter vedere in tempo reale tramite smartphone e poter parlare oltre che ascoltare ciò che avviene dove è stata posizionata è davvero il plus che la rende un ottimo acquisto soprattutto per il rapporto qualità prezzo. Non è obbligatorio abbonarsi per poter visualizzare in tempo reale, se si vuole registrare basta una semplice app sul telefono che acquisisca lo schermo. Altrimenti ci si abbandona. In definitiva è un acquisto che consiglio caldamente.

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    Ring Indoor Cam (1st Gen) by Amazon | Compact plug-in HD Indoor Security Camera with Two-Way Talk, Wifi, Works with Alexa | alternative to CCTV system | 30-day free trial of Ring Protect
    Ring Indoor Cam (1st Gen) by Amazon | Compact plug-in HD Indoor Security Camera with Two-Way Talk, Wifi, Works with Alexa | alternative to CCTV system | 30-day free trial of Ring Protect

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