Ding Dong..Get the Door

About 6 months ago I bought a Ring Video doorbell. I bought it mainly because the wiring in my existing doorbell was not working and it seemed like it would be pretty cool to ‘see and talk with people who were ringing my door bell’. The doorbell to my surprise also enables you to see what is going on at your door when it detects motion.

Here’s what I thought I would see on my video doorbell:

1. UPS delivery guy ringing the doorbell and him having a conversation with me saying ‘Hi Mr. Cooney I have a package for you. I’ll wait for you to open the door’.
2. Door to door salespeople trying to sell me things like replacement windows.
3. Friends arriving at our house and having a conversation with them like ‘welcome over…I’ll be right there’.

Yep, none of that ever happened. Here is to my surprise what I tend to see the most:

1. Videos of UPS and FedEx drivers as they ring the doorbell and then leave a package and run at lighting speed to their trucks and speed away.
2. Door to door ‘salespeople’ which I really think are criminals casing my house. The reason I say that is they always knock (Ring detects motion) but never ring the doorbell because they believe that it only records video if they ring it and they don’t want to be on video. Well, they are on video anyway.
3. My mailman putting mail in our mailbox and overhearing the many bluetooth phone conversations he has with a friend about the various women he is dating and what he thinks about them.
4. My kids ringing the doorbell when they get home from school to leave me video messages to say hi and tell me how much they love me.

Nearly every person that visits our house asks me whether I think the Ring video doorbell was worth it. I always tell people that it’s worth it if you want to know what really happens outside your door when your are not home and that if you have kids seeing them tell you they love you when they get home makes it very worth it.